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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])
* #2: 'reasons for apathy' - Elizabeth Cripps
* Action Alert: March Forth To Earth Day
* Tomorrow: Friday, February 25, 12pm - Join us at Chase
* 350MKE Meeting: Tuesday March 8, 7pm - Alderman Nik Kovac
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From The Guardian opinion ([link removed]) - Elizabeth Cripps
'Reasons for apathy' #2: “It’s too expensive!”
"This is the so-called economic argument against mitigating climate change: that [link removed] cheaper to adjust to a hotter planet. Even if this were factually unassailable (spoiler alert: it’s not ([link removed].) ), it would be morally flawed. It relies on what philosophers call utilitarianism – the view that we should maximise overall welfare (often, in practice, overall money) even if some people suffer desperately along the way. That’s in direct contradiction to the most basic intuition of commonsense morality. It disregards human rights.
Even if we swallowed this pill, it takes another questionable assumption to make the anti-mitigation sums add up. These economic arguments, says the philosopher Simon Caney ([link removed]) , assume that future people’s pain, even their deaths, count for less in the cost-benefit calculations if these are further in the future. That isn’t standard economic discounting; it’s discounting the lives of our descendants."
* 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])
March Forth to Earth Day!
March 4th to April 22, 2022
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Eight consecutive weeks of outdoor-in-person & virtual climate actions across Wisconsin, at Noon & 5:00 p.m. on Fridays -
A call for bold and decisive actions, including but not limited to,
Stopping Line 5.
350MKE is a co-sponsor. You can find out more here ([link removed]) and become an individual sponsor too!
The first Milwaukee March Forth to Earth Day! event is at the Chase Bank at N. Lydell & Silver Spring Dr. on Friday March 4, 12:00pm.
Join us on the 4th and watch for each Friday's event location!
350MKE Fridays for Future
Tomorrow - Friday, February 25, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Chase Bank
N Lydell Ave & W Silver Spring Dr ([link removed])
Masks and Physical Distancing as appropriate
Opinion: Fighting climate change is too expensive because destroying the planet is cost-free - By Tom Toles ([link removed]) Washington Post
"Among the many, many ways the United States has failed in its discussion of climate change is the idea that all the costs are on one side of the equation. Putting a higher price on carbon is somehow understood as all cost and no benefit.
On the other hand, ruining Earth’s climate is somehow understood as all benefit and no cost. The science is no longer in dispute, but the economics are certainly a stalled hurricane of stupid here." Continue reading. ([link removed])
Climate Change is EXPENSIVE!
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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+ 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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