In — the year that I was born— world leaders met to talk about climate change for the very first time. We now have less than half that time to reverse the most harmful and irreparable effects of climate change. I organize because I believe all migrants deserve the freedom to move, the freedom to stay, and the freedom to return. Because I believe all Indigenous peoples should control their own territories. Jennifer Deol is a Digital Organizer with She has been organizing for nearly four years, and recently left the city to start farming again in the Okanagan region in BC.
We asked Jennifer why she fights for climate justice:. Growing up, my grandfather told me stories of these rivers and entire civilizations and communities that built their lives along their banks.
I was so in awe of the land that sustained, nourished and raised me. As I grew up, I learned about the devastation and heartbreak that comes with farming in a heating world. From India to Canada, and places in between I hear of endless droughts and heavy flooding happening more frequently and intensely.
Climate change and ongoing colonialism have made the land and waters sick and in turn people who depend on them sick. It scares me to think that those five rivers that sustained life for centuries are drying up. And it deeply angers me this is happening around the world and impacting those who have contributed the least to the climate crises first and worst.
That sadness and anger fuels me to fight for those that continue to be displaced and dispossessed of their land and livelihoods because of climate change and corporate greed. OurTime climateimpacts climatechange Punjab farming Meet our field organizer Katie Ryan-Perfitt who joined our team in This is in part the impetus behind As the architect behind the enterprise, CleanTechnica spoke with Borgstrom learn about the ideation of the campaign and why everyone should get behind the petition.
Could you explain a little more about the ideation process behind the recent call for Facebook to ban advertising fossil fuel corporations? The call for Facebook to ban this kind of advertising was a natural progression of the fossil-free movement.
We are looking to remove the social license that many fossil fuel companies have in our society. I like to think about it in terms of following the trajectory of the tobacco industry, where we as a society made it and its products into something that people and companies did not want to be associated with or accept money from.
We identified social media as a gap, where not as much work was being done despite people spending so much of their lives there. Few people, however, were aware of the role social media played in this.
Many are still unaware that companies like Facebook are profiting from the advertisement of fossil fuel companies. How can people get involved in supporting this movement, and what have the reactions been so far?
We have yet to hear a response from Facebook since we started the campaign. Do you know how much money Facebook makes for advertising fossil fuel companies? Indeed they have taken steps to be more transparent in terms of advertising, but the advertising database only reveals the sum if it is politically-related.
Should other technology companies, such as Google, also be held to a similar standard? Rather than deal with reality capitalism, imperialism, militarism, etc. One must take note of With certainty, In a nutshell, the agenda will not include anything that would actually pose any meaningful threat to the system.
Just like the Avaaz founder MoveOn. Language is everything in the world of fantasy and public relations. This is hardly the case. These organizations successfully make certain that the public feel good about themselves. As always, such campaigns focus on list-building for those who benefit and profit from email lists, etc. This is a cynical game played by those who fund the NGOs within the non-profit industrial complex.
The costs are high with , dying each year from climate-related disasters. But empirical investigation reveals that the opposite is more often the case. In reality, the stock market, though culturally powerful, is not particularly important to how capitalism actually creates wealth and pollution.
Or it could allow the firm to more easily buy back stock which it has been doing at a massive scale for the last 5 years and thus retain more of its earnings for use to develop more oil fields. It must be noted that All while they simultaneously greenwash themselves as noble stewards of the Earth.
In the human species closing epilogue, this will be the greatest lie ever sold. From the Ceres announcement :. Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books and is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign Rockefeller could find no better insurance for his hundreds of millions than to invest one of them in subsidizing all agencies that make for social change ad progress.
November 2, Tell rich countries at COP Fund the just transition everywhere There is only one right choice to make: rich funder countries must pull money out of fossil fuels, and use it to fund a just, clean, renewable energy transition everywhere. Join the movement for a Green New Deal in Bangladesh Bangladesh must keep coal and gas out of its energy transition plans and cancel all coal plant projects and use the land to kickstart new solar energy projects. Sign: Tell federal leaders to be brave on climate We have a historic opportunity.
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