Climate Strike with Us on 9/20

We have replace the past deadline action network sign in with news of this wonderful event provided by Alexa Forrester.  

I wanted to share the following links covering the event, in case you haven't seen them.

Following links covering the event, in case you haven't seen them.
The marchers, from beginning to end, as we left the JC for Mendocino avenue (thanks to Franchesca!): CLICK HERE

The whole event, including clear footage of the entire stage program starting at minute 55, thanks to The Oak Leaf (student newspaper at the JC): CLICK HERE

The Press Democrat coverage: CLICK HERE

Solving Climate Change: a blueprint (10 min. video)

Very good explaination of the context of Project Drawdown and answers the question, why we at Sonoma County Pachamama engage in presenting drawdown. A 90 minute walk Drawdown Introduction is offered at the Pachamama global commons website but you must first join the group (no cost) to access.  We suggest you watch this short video first. We also have made course documentation on our google drive available to download.



Our starting point -- Why do people tune out? Why do people switch channels when another gloom and doom climate change story comes on, piling problem upon problem?  Katharine Wilkenson, Senior writer for Project Drawdown says "It is very hard to face this kind of dramatic existential threat and feel like you have no agency."  One of the things that could provide that sense of agency would be leaders and a government that we actually believed in.  This as it turns out is also a core element of the demand of Extinction Rebellion -- The government should tell the truth".  When we come to the challenge through the lens of solutions we see the many positive and near term benefits of this work and it is very exciting.  Working together in community with wonderful creative people on a challenging project is innately rewarding. Climate change and ecological collapse is after all the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced.  Approached passionately through the myriad solutions that people care deeply about it is very motivating.

Greta Movie

Adults must embrace and support this and help this grow!

BEIS Strategy Committee question Extinction Rebellion

This is a difficult video (1:40) to watch and study as Gail Bradbrook struggles to be even handed and cordial with regulators and policy wonks who can not seem to be able to hear that we no longer have faith that government's piece meal approach is credible, indeed it is feeble.  However it touched on many difficult specific questions such as nuclear, jobs, time frames, carbon trading, etc, that come from the establishment point of view on possible policies and is good to know how these conversations go down.

The Terrible Ethical Calculus of Catastrophe

Ian Welsh, Blog, May 31, 2019, posted by Wayne Morgenthaler Normally I do not re post blogs, however this one points to a critical question that does not need restating -- under a government plan to fix the climate catastrophe, who will the save?  Our government's track record for 30 years does not inspire confidence in the outcome, but that does not mean we can wait.  It is pretty certain that the task ahead will require constant vigilance and popular resistance to programs to save the rich and abandon the poor. Let us say you know a catastrophe is coming, and you cannot stop it and thus save everyone.  What do you do? You start making choices about who to save. Not just their lives, but their stuff and their power. Catastrophes often lead to changes in societies, but sometimes they don’t.

Bioneers with Paul Hawkin, Dream of a Hundred Year Plan

This is a wonderful and well produces video.  Unabashed in dreaming of a new society. The ideas and content delivered in this 3:26 min piece are revolutionary and yet everyone would want this future.

'Beautiful Trouble' Grows With Friday Climate Strikes on Multiple Continents

Youth is rising up -- We are so luck that they are.

The momentum for the weekly climate strikes shows no sign of abating as young people in hundreds of communities across the globe are hitting the streets on Friday to make a stand against the environmental crisis.

"We can make a difference," said Matilda Lane-Rose, one of the protesters in Perth, Australia.

The Fridays for Future website has 725 strikes mapped out for the day. They cover the Americas from Canada to Chile; Europe from Norway to Italy; Africa from Mauritania to South Africa; Asia from South Korea to India in Asia; and multiple marches in Australia and New Zealand.

As Capitalism Fails, We Need a Roadmap to Survive Climate Change

This article is very clear incisive in it's economic and geopolitical thinking. Paavo Järvensivu, co-author of recent UN report is founder and researcher at an independent, multidisciplinary research unit, launched in Helsinki in 2015. Like the IPCC report the frame is current economic models that assumes capitalism for good or ill so my interest in this work is qualified by my bias against capitalism in general.  However my revolution is less likely to happen than these scenarios so it is wise to understand them.

Green New Deal Town Hall

Wednesday, May 15, 2019  6:00-8:30 PM
This is a must go event.  Go to this -- Find your Passion, Find your Team, Find your Power!

Climate Mobilization Update

How to Build the Zero-Carbon Economy

Winona LaDuke, In These Times, April 22, 2019, posted by Wayne Morgenthaler

This short read contains 6 problems and 6 great thinkers that have answers.  Read this and then track down the think tanks and get an education

http://inthesetimes.com/features/green-new-deal-zero-carbon-economy-plan.html

None of the 2020 Frontrunners Go Far Enough on Climate

Dahr Jamail, Truthout, April 28, 2019, Originally Posted by Wayne Morgenthaler and revised 5/2/19

Here is an article by Dahr Jamail on prospective candidate's climate platforms that concludes that "If you read the 2020 Democratic candidates’ platforms in a vacuum, they may sound compelling. However, if we keep in mind the true magnitude of this crisis, they are nowhere near adequate."

Drawdown Introduction -- can we reverse global warming?

Game On: Yes We Can Reversing Global Warming!

DRAWDOWN: The point in time when CO2 in the atmosphere begins to decline -- 100 projects that sequester carbon from land and sea

Arlene Francis Center, Santa Rosa, hosts Introduction to DRAWDOWN Thursday, May 9th from 6-9 pm, a workshop enabling participants to become part of the solution to climate crisis. “Daily climate news is bleak,” says organizer, Wayne Morgenthaler, “but we must support solutions to this crisis now". 

 

DRAWDOWN workshops are slated for each city in the county through Sonoma County Pachamama Alliance (SCPA). Based on Paul Hawken’s book, DRAWDOWN, “the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming.”

The presentation will be preceded by a short street theater piece by Jessica Litwak and H.E.A.T. theatre troupe and a panel of youth activists will offer views on how to engage our communities, government and especially youth in the hard work of shifting toward a healthy planet and equitable life for all its people.

“DRAWDOWN is the work of... a geologists, engineers, agronomists, researchers, fellows, writers, climatologists, biologists, botanists, economists, financial analysts, architects, companies, agencies, NGOs, activists, and other experts who draft, model, fact check, review, and validate all text, inputs, sources, and calculations...to provide helpful information and tools to a wide variety of actors who are dedicated to meaningful change... ” – DRAWDOWN