"While we are all paying attention to COVID-19 and the congressional stimulus packages, state legislatures are quietly passing fossil-fuel-backed anti-protest laws. These laws do nothing new to protect communities. Instead they seek to crack down on the sort of nonviolent civil disobedience that has shaped much of our nation's greatest political and social victories."
We no longer need vehicles that run on fossil fuels.
We have the technology to completely eliminate fossil fuels from the equation.
What we lack is political will.
In her book This Changes Everything, author and activist Naomi Klein argues the reason the United States fails to adequately address climate change is because of the obscene amounts of money fossil fuel companies pump into lawmakers' (mostly Republican) campaigns.
In November, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Donald Trump sent a letter to the United Nations initiating the Paris Climate Accord withdrawal process, set to be completed November 4one day after the 2020 presidential election.
This means the United States of Americathe second biggest global greenhouse gas producer is now officially the only country not included in the historic and urgent deal agreed to at the 2015 UN climate change conference intended to establish a global coalition to prevent the atmosphere from warming more than 1.5 degrees Celsius-2.7 degrees Fahrenheit-over pre-industrial levels.
Collapsing ecosystems impact all life, not just "insignificant" forms.
Late last year, 11,000 scientists from 153 countries posed the warning that humanity faces "untold suffering" unless it effects major societal transformations.
That warning published in the journal BioScience goes on to explain:
"We declare clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency. The climate crisis has arrived and is accelerating faster than most scientists expected. It is more severe than anticipated, threatening natural ecosystems and the fate of humanity."
In order to avoid the catastrophic fallout the climate emergency forebodes, scientists urge ending population growth, leaving fossil fuels in the ground, halting forest destruction, and slashing meat consumption.
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