#climate March

[thrivingisthegoal]

Chalk drawings from the March Against Fossil Fuels, NYC, September 17, 2023

[antifainternational]

May 31, Amsterdam - Join the Antifascist bloc of the climate march at the Zuidas, Amsterdam!

[theonlinevegan]

[climatecalling]

Clearly, the climate movement, led by Indigenous groups and frontline communities, has come through the past few years intact; enormous credit is due to the organizers, including Jean Su, of the national N.G.O. the Center for Biological Diversity (“Our Mission: Saving Life on Earth”), who pulled together a major march in a matter of months. Yet, just as clearly, this movement needs to expand again. Campaigns draw their structure from the committed activists at the core, but they draw their power from the large numbers of less intensely engaged citizens that they can entice in for a little while; victory for movements means somehow reaching into the broad middle and convincing people that they can play an important role, even if they do so just temporarily. In September of 2014, for instance, a climate march across Manhattan drew as many as four hundred thousand marchers. They came less because of existential fear (2014 was practically an ice age compared with the heat and fire we’ve seen this summer) than because they sensed a chance to send a message ahead of the Paris climate talks, and their message was heard. Here’s President Barack Obama speaking at the U.N. two days later: Representative Ocasio-Cortez repeated that theme yesterday. “That means something,” she told marchers. “I’m in rooms in Washington all the time where people say that they have a commitment to this issue, but we need urgency.” ...

But it takes time to grow—or regrow—movements, and the good vibe from this one will make the next such day easier to recruit for. We don’t have endless time, of course. But yesterday was a crucial, jaunty step. The world was marching again.

[atompowers]

"The actions come amid the hottest summer on record and as experts continue to sound the alarm over unwavering environmental destruction, especially by the fossil fuel industry and its political and financial backers."

"Climate chaos—fueled by oil and gas giants that have spend decades lying about their planet-heating pollution along with rich governments and institutions that continue to break their promises and pump billions of dollars into the fossil fuel industry—is already killing people. The death toll from flooding in Libya this week has climbed to 11,300."

[dayandnightz]

Extinction Rebellion..

[corvidist]

Climate march during a wildfire - Santa Barbara 2021

[k--havok]

I know everyone is now racing to do a different writing challenge during the month of november but look.

how about

we choose a different fucking month besides one of the busiest and most stressful months of the year

[why-the-heck-not]

insomnia? do u mean my true crime podcast time

[briwhosaysni]

I do not regret going to grad school, and I do not regret moving for my program, but I am absolutely sick and tired of living in the fucking desert

It should not be 97° F in fucking May

I wish we still had our chest freezer so I could curl up inside it and take a nap

[icewindandboringhorror]

reminders of the passage of time moodeboard

[thrivingisthegoal]

People seen at the March Against Fossil Fuels in NYC, 2023

[madtomedgar]

I often wonder what the world would look like if pressing local or state level issues people claim to care about generated the same kind of action and enthusiasm that massive national news stories with complicated power mapping do. Idk even when I'm 100% with the people who are up in arms. Like what if just as many people in MA had turned out for the ROE act as turned out to protest the overturn of Roe after the fact? What if the rent control actions were as well attended as the ceasefire actions? I have had many instances where I am trying to get progressive people who regularly go to big demonstrations to show up for something state level they have said they care about and they just won't. And what I'm left with after that is the conclusion that where their interests actually are is feeling like a part of something big and heady rather than accomplishing a concrete goal and that's. Demoralizing.

[alder-knight]

this is bemusement, not outrage: I have seen NOTHING on this website about the SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE who marched through NYC on Sunday to pressure the president and the UN to end the use of fossil fuels, which is very surprising to me! so here is a good writeup on the protest, which I hope makes some impact even if I am not holding my breath:

Yelling that the future and their lives depend on ending fossil fuels, tens of thousands of protesters on Sunday kicked off a week where leaders will try once again to curb climate change primarily caused by coal, oil, and natural gas. But protesters say it’s not going to be enough. And they aimed their wrath directly at United States President Joe Biden, urging him to stop approving new oil and gas projects, phase out current ones, and declare a climate emergency with larger executive powers. “We hold the power of the people, the power you need to win this election,” said 17-year-old Emma Buretta of Brooklyn of the youth protest group Fridays for Future. “If you want to win in 2024, if you do not want the blood of my generation to be on your hands, end fossil fuels.” The March to End Fossil Fuels featured such politicians as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and actors Susan Sarandon, Ethan Hawke, Edward Norton, Kyra Sedgewick, and Kevin Bacon. But the real action on Broadway was where protesters crowded the street, pleading for a better but not-so-hot future. It was the opening salvo to New York’s Climate Week, where world leaders in business, politics, and the arts gather to try to save the planet, highlighted by a new special United Nations summit Wednesday. Many of the leaders of countries that cause the most heat-trapping carbon pollution will not be in attendance. And they won’t speak at the summit organized by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a way that only countries that promise new concrete action are invited to speak. Organizers estimated 75,000 people marched Sunday.

doing my damnedest to put a pipe bomb through the overton window

[both photos are of me, a brown nonbinary trans person wearing mostly black with a red face mask, from the NYC March to End Fossil Fuels in NYC, 17 Sept 2023. paint + sharpie cardboard sign in first photo reads "EXTINGUISH THE WILDFIRES WITH THE BLOOD OF THE BILLIONAIRES." other side of sign in second photo reads "THE EARTH IS NOT DYING, IT IS BEING KILLED, AND THOSE WHO ARE KILLING IT HAVE NAMES AND ADDRESSES. - UTAH PHILLIPS"]

[climatecalling]

“We are all here for one reason: to end fossil fuels around the planet,” Ocasio-Cortez told a rally at the finish of the march, which ended close to the UN headquarters where world leaders will gather this week. “And the way we create urgency is to have people around the world in the streets.” She said: “The United States continues to be approving a record number of fossil fuel leases and we must send a message, right here today,” adding that despite record profits the support for the fossil fuel industry was “starting to buckle and crack”. Climate action requires a democratic restructuring of the economy, she said. “What we’re not gonna do is go from oil barons to solar barons.” Organizers estimated that between 50,000 and 75,000 people attended the march in Manhattan and had anticipated it would be the biggest climate march in the US in the past five years. ... Biden has been praised by climate activists for last year passing a historic $369bn climate law but criticized for allowing oil drilling projects and the expansion of gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. ... The veteran environmental activist Bill McKibben travelled to New York City to attend the march. “I think it’s a real restart moment after the pandemic for the big in-the-streets climate movement,” he said. “It’s good to see people get back out there.” The crowd, he said, reflected the diversity of New York City. “I’m glad to see there’s a lot of old people like me here,” said McKibben, who founded Third Act, an activist group aimed at elders. “We’ll be marching in the back because we’re slow!” More than 650 global climate actions took place earlier this week; earlier on Sunday activists sprayed orange paint on to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany.

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Book Reviews Children's Edition: Manga Biographies: Charles M. Schulz; Halfway There: A Memoir; The Terrifying Tales of Vivian Vance; How to Explain Climate Science to a Grown-Up #GraphicNovels #Manga #NetGalley #ChildrensBooks

Time for another round-up of book reviews: this time I tackled some manga, graphic novels, and a children's book about climate science. Read about the history of the Peanuts comic book, a memoir about being mixed-race, and a YA horror story. #ARCReviews

I have been connecting to my kids more with their reading. The two youngest adore manga books and the reason I have a Barnes & Noble membership is because the county library and school library do not carry the series’ they are interested in. I’ve also been picking up some graphic novels and manga, including some ARCs. Here are some reviews of my most recent finds: Most books can be found at the…