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"Every one of us now has a duty to do something, if not for ourselves then for the survival of future generations" - Elizabeth Cripps ([link removed])
* #1: 'reasons for apathy' - Elizabeth Cripps
* Leave Gas in the Past: No New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
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From The Guardian opinion ([link removed]) - Elizabeth Cripps
'reasons for apathy' #1: “It’s so far in the future.”
It’s not. This is already happening: in wildfires, storms and floods in Europe, Australia, the US and the UK, and in decades of devastation in the global south. The victims of climate change include future generations, but they also include the 11-year-old in Bangladesh ([link removed]) whose friend drowned, the New Orleans family ([link removed]) who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina and the girl forced into child marriage ([link removed].) because her parents can no longer feed her.
Even if this were “just” about future generations, they matter too. Because they are our children and grandchildren, and because they are people. Take the least controversial moral rule you’re likely to find: don’t seriously harm other people. Suppose, says the philosopher Henry Shue ([link removed]) , you plant a landmine on a busy path. That’s wrong if it will explode tomorrow. It’s still wrong if it won’t go off for another 150 years. Climate change is that landmine – and a whole lot more of them.
* Elizabeth Cripps is a writer and moral philosopher at the University of Edinburgh, and author of What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care ([link removed])
WEC, (a.k.a. We Energies) is reducing their use of coal, and we thank them for that. However (isn't there always one), they plan to replace some of that coal generation with gas - another fossil fuel. We, the 'climate movement', are pushing hard for a 'direct to renewables' transition.
Why? Because the statement "It's so far in the future" is NOT TRUE!
Below is the opening text and a link to a Sierra Club petition titled "Gas is not a bridge fuel - no new fossil fuels". The petition is directed to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) and is only for Wisconsin residents.
You can add a personal message, but you don't have to. Every sign on counts.
Can you think of a better action you can take during the next 5 minutes?
Leave Gas in the Past: No New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
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Why This Mattershttps://addup.sierraclub.org/campaigns/leave-gas-in-the-past/petition
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"Gas has no part in our clean energy future, and today it’s more clear than ever before. In the scientific findings released this August by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), methane is named specifically as an extremely potent greenhouse gas -- more than 80 times as powerful as carbon dioxide. Methane is the main component of the gas that is burned in some power plants and is what many utilities claim as ‘clean’. Natural gas is the industry term used to mask the negative impacts of this fossil fuel."
Here is the link to the petition page ([link removed]) . Will you sign it for your, or someone else's, grandchildren?
350MKE Fridays for Future
Friday, February 18, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Chase Bank
N Lydell Ave & W Silver Spring Dr ([link removed])
Masks and Physical Distancing as appropriate
“With the ink hardly dry on a landmark pledge by the finance industry to fight climate change, the world’s biggest banks are making clear they plan to stand by their fossil-fuel clients.
Take JPMorgan Chase & Co., the leading arranger of bonds for oil, gas and coal companies. In the weeks since the bank in October joined Mark Carney’s global alliance to achieve net-zero emissions from finance ([link removed]) , it has underwritten some $2.5 billion in bond deals for companies like Gazprom PJSC and Continental Resources Inc., equivalent to the same period in previous years.” - Nicholas Comfort and Steven Arons, December 6, 2021, Bloomberg
Climate Change is NOT far in the future!
Join Us!
We have Chase and fossil fuel signs available
You can also bring your own signs!
If the temperature is less than 10F, or there are weather advisories, we will not demonstrate.
350 Milwaukee Meeting
Tuesday, March 8, 7 - 8:30pm
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Milwaukee Alderman Nik Kovac
City/County Action on Climate Change
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* Milwaukee's Climate and Equity Plan ([link removed])
+ Great video featuring your Milwaukee neighbors.
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+ Share your ideas & add to the discussion.
+ See the 10 Big Ideas and take a 1-2 minute survey for one or all of the Big Ideas.
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