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What do we want? Who do we NEED?


​Who Do We Need ? 

Our universities, schools
Our congregations, faith based organizations

Organizers, activists, advocates
Our scientists, doctors, nurses, engineers, health care workers, teachers
Our non profits, pro bono lawyers
Our farmers, plumbers, carpenters
Indigenous leaders
Business leaders of conscience
Truthful industry
Officials who serve the people and the earth
State agencies in good conscience
City planners
​Parents, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, adults




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What are the major issues?
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Consumerism, Convenience, Overconsumption and Resource Entitlement
Fossil Fuels/Plastic/ Sourcing of Renewables
Food waste

Refrigerant management/hydroflurocarbons
Deforestration; tropical forest restoration
The intersection of social. racial and economic injustice and climate crisis
Extractive practices/Sourcing Renewables
Water pollution
Silvo pasture; managed grazing, no till, perennial stable crops; tree intercropping
Cook stoves

Soil depletion, CAFO's
Monopolies
The intersection of Covid 19 and the climate crisis
Private Property "Rights" 
Over population
​Building, travel, industry, transport
Political Coups for resource control (Bolivia for Lithium)
Greed, 
consumerism, entitlement

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What do we want?
Reduced consumption
Land restoration
Moratorium on development
De growth models
Extraction, land/sea/mining moratorium
No burning of carbon
Keep it in the ground
Social justice
Monopoly breakup
Political integrity

Democratic control of energy systems/public ownership
NO new Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
Overhaul of FERC
Mass transit, all cars zero emissions by 2050
Benchmarked enforced requirements for commercial buildings; all federal buildings deep energy retrofits 
Incentives for energy efficiency/renewables not dependent on Fossil Fuels
​large scale weatherization and efficiency in low income and frontline communities,
A critical look at renewables, their sources, their funding and the billionaires who are coopting profit
Climate Action Plans
Reduce Repair Recyce Reuse
Nature based solutions
Rights of Nature




World wide carbon emissions must reach net zero by 2050 or, in China’s case, 2060; citizens, public officials, and business leaders will have to push those countries’ governments to make that a political reality. 
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Bills that address these demands
Organizations, Legal Cases
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