The Transformative Power Of Climate Truth

Margaret Klein Salamon, Medium, Feb. 2019, Posted by Wayne Morgenthaler

Salamon is founder of Climate Mobilization. Her powerful article "The Transformative Power Of Climate Truth" quotes Philip Sutton (Climate Emergency Declaration - Australia) to summarize the alarming conflict within the Climate Change Action movement:

Over those last 27 years, while all the research, activism and negotiation has been going on, the climate has actually become dangerous. So, the key goal now must be to provide, at the 11th hour, real protection for the vulnerable people, species and ecosystems of the world. The principal struggle must shift, from the clash between no action and some action, to the crucial struggle between those who want to constrain reform to levels that are not too disruptive and those who want action that will provide highly effective and timely protection.

This article is long, detailed and clear thinking

https://medium.com/@margaretkleinsalamon/the-transformative-power-of-climate-truth-6e5622ce84fe 

What a Climate Emergency Act (or Green New Deal) could look like

From Austrailian Climate Mobilization July 2016, Posted by Wayne Morgenthaler

Currently there is no legislation under which Parliament could declare a Climate Emergency and mobilise resources accordingly. The Model Act drafted by Philip Sutton, the 40-page ‘Climate Emergency (Restructuring & Mobilisation) Act’, is an example of the type of legislation that would be required in order to declare a Climate Emergency and establish the mechanisms necessary for an orderly and effective restructuring of the economy.

There has been much talk about the Green New Deal but what will be in it?  I provide this here as a jumping off point for ideas and dream of what could be in our future and to illustrate that this will be the most fundamental shift in human economic in many centuries

http://www.green-innovations.asn.au/RSTI/Climate-Emergency_(Restructuring-&-Mobilisation)-Act_National.pdf

The Climate Emergency and the Election: A Pathway to WWII-Scale Mobilization

From Common Dreams, October 2016, Posted by Wayne Morgenthaler

Our team at Drawdown event

Two years ago before the election of Trump, Ezra Silks from Climate Mobilization wrote this article. It was very critical of the the Americans. He said "We are a broken people, destroyed by our own cynicism, desperate for quick fixes, obsessed with our imagined victim hood and helplessness, and totally at a loss for how to save ourselves."