Climate hawks contact Biden-Harris to ‘develop back fossil cost-free’

Climate hawks call on Biden-Harris to 'build back fossil free'

At the Build Back Fossil Free project’s web site, which went online very early Thursday early morning, teams consisting of 350.org, Greenpeace, Indivisible, as well as the Center for Biological Diversity clarify that Biden’s executive activities need to concentrate on downfall the damages triggered by years of ecological bigotry as well as oppression as well as the removal of nonrenewable fuel sources.

At the Build Back Fossil Free project’s web site, which went online very early Thursday early morning, teams consisting of 350.org, Greenpeace, Indivisible, as well as the Center for Biological Diversity clarify that Biden’s executive activities need to concentrate on downfall the damages triggered by years of ecological bigotry as well as oppression as well as the removal of nonrenewable fuel sources.

“Mr. President-elect, you should use all the tools at your disposal to avert further climate devastation while helping people recover from the pandemic,” the companies, which stand for numerous supporters throughout the nation, created. “That indicates utilizing your exec authority from Day One to:

  • Protect as well as buy the Black, Indigenous, Brown, as well as working-class neighborhoods that have actually birthed the burden of nonrenewable fuel source air pollution as well as environment calamity.
  • End the age of nonrenewable fuel source manufacturing, deny nonrenewable fuel source jobs, as well as remove free gifts to oil, gas, as well as coal companies.
  • Launch a nationwide environment mobilization to Build Back Fossil Free, supplying tasks, justice, as well as possibility for all.” […]

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“[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.”
          ~~Harry S. Truman, Letter to his sis Mary, 1947

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At Daily Kos on this day in 2009—Magical Thinking Prevails in Copenhagen:

With demonstrators being apprehended on a daily basis as well as non-traditional media, plus some conventional media, being stayed out of conversations, the environment adjustment talks in Copenhagen are stammering on the precipice of straight-out failing. While some development has actually been made, also the arrival of the principals of greater than 100 federal governments Friday, consisting of President Barack Obama, appears not likely to achieve in much less than 24 hr what hasn’t been attained in 2 weeks of talks or the months of prep work for them.

Meanwhile, veteran ecological supporter Bill McKibben exposed in a Daily Kos journal Thursday mid-day, as well as standard media consequently have actually reported, dripped papers from the United Nations call right into severe inquiry federal governments’ cases that they are going for co2 cuts that would certainly hold typical international temperature levels to an increase of 2°C over the following century. Instead, the cuts might permit a temperature level surge of 3°C or 4°C, with greater than 550 components per numerous co2 in the ambience. That’s well over the 350 ppm researchers think is a (fairly) secure degree.

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