Earth Democracy
Published on September, 36 2021
By Nancy Price
October 2021
October is the month to continue mobilizing for System Change Not Climate Change! Plan to join climate marches, demonstrations, rallies and #FridaysForFutures. Together, we must all loudly and clearly call out for climate justice for people and the planet.
As Guardians for Present and Future Generations, every day we can pledge to “do something – take some action” to reduce our personal carbon footprint.
The United Nations Framework on Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP 26) meets in Glasgow, Scotland November 1-12. So now’s the time to make your voices heard that Pres. Biden, John Kerry Biden’s Climate Advisor, and the U.S. Delegation must pledge to:
- Keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees C / 2.7 degrees F, compared to pre-industrial levels.
- Ensure climate justice and equity. Leave no one, no community, no country behind.
- Listen to the best science currently available.
At every event display a WILPF banner!
Suggestions for Signs –
- #Uproot the System! #NoMoreEmptyPromises!
- End Fossil Fuel Extraction!
- No More Empty Promises!
- There’s No Planet B!
- System Change Not Climate Change!
- Divest from Fossil Fuels!
In a recent article in The Washington Post, it was reported that "People around the world increasingly see climate change as a personal threat", a new poll finds. The findings reported below were published this week in the journal Science, [and] are the result of a massive effort to quantify what lead author Wim Thiery calls the “intergenerational inequality” of climate change.”
In fact, Sarah Kaplan wrote, “If the planet continues to warm on its current trajectory, the average 6-year-old will live through roughly three times as many climate disasters as their grandparents, the study finds. They will see twice as many wildfires, 1.7 times as many tropical cyclones, 3.4 times more river floods, 2.5 times more crop failures and 2.3 times as many droughts as someone born in 1960.”
But let’s be honest, much of the consequences of global warming and climate change will not be equally experienced as so much depends on the economic, social, and political conditions of where a child is born and is growing up.
