We need to keep pushing big investors such as schools and corporations to divest their fossil fuel stocks. We also need to get them out of the chemical industry, the armaments industry, the insurance industry, and the finance industry.
The madness and futility of continued fossil fuel burning is all too readily apparent…
If one were to search for an example of the utterly and inherently life, climate, and economy destroying impacts of fossil fuel burning, they wouldn’t have to look too far. They could look to the rapidly destabilizing glaciers now putting our coastal cities, our island nations in dire peril. They could look to the droughts now ranging the world, forcing officials in Sao Paulo to make water out of mud, lighting understory fires in the Amazon rainforest, and setting off water scarcity crises from the US West Coast, to the Caribbean, to South America and on through broad sections of Asia and Africa. They could look to the nation-destabilizing crises that have already rippled through our world. The collapse of Syria due to drought, the fractures running through both India and Bangladesh due…
View original 1,370 more words