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Climate Change, Climate Change in Alaska, Climate disruption, CREDO Action Petition, Don't Drill the Arctic, Keep It In The Ground, Nature & Environment, President Obama on Climate Change
Climate Leaders Don’t Drill The Arctic
Climate Leaders Don’t Drill the Arctic. Talking about the urgency of climate change while allowing massive fossil fuel extraction isn’t leadership, it’s hypocrisy. Science says we must not burn 80% of known fossil fuel reserves, including all Arctic oil. President Obama, to lead on climate, you must Keep It In The Ground.
~ CREDO Action Petition
Thanks to blogger JoAnn at Aware & Fair for sharing this video.
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Agree that more renewable sources, and less use of oil globally is preferred!
The White House’s argument, though, is that the oil used by the United States will need to be extracted by someone, and it is better that the source is from the United States than from other nations. Naturally, the shortfall will become a unilateral “tax” on the US and adversely affect US economy, trade deficit and citizens.
Would prefer a more economic energy alternative be found/researched or further climate deals to be made globally/approved (the still unapproved CPP comes to mind), but perhaps things have to be done one step at a time?
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Cicorm, thanks for sharing your insights. We’ve procrastinated so long on making the transition to alternative clean, sustainable energy that one step at a time will not be not enough. We need to take giant leaps forward.
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Reblogged this on Guyanese Online.
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Thanks for the support, Cyril.
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Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine “planetary boundaries” that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems.
TED video: Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development
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Cyril, thanks for sharing the link to Rockstrom’s TED Talk.
Kamtan would be pleased to note that Rockstrom is optimistic about our future. He cites cases showing that transformative opportunities do exist, but we need to change our mindset. Incremental change is not an option. We have to collaborate on a global level.
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Roseliene, thank you for sharing. My preference is to work on the economics (due to the effect on voters), but can nevertheless understand your point on urgency: I live near the coast, and temperatures here have been soaring sky high…
One extra point to note. Thinking, in order not to be counter-productive, equal if not more vitriol needs to be directed at climate hostile parties. It will be a terrible consequence to weaken an essentially climate friendly administration/party, only to see an unfriendly party take electoral victory.
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Cicorm, you raise an important point. Voters will definitely need to know where candidates stand on climate change.
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