Climate Change

This story originally published on World Resources Institute.

If your colleague or child does well and you give her or him positive feedback, that’s good.

If climate change causes a cascade of impacts that result in additional climate change — which scientists call "positive feedback" — that’s bad, and maybe catastrophic.

September 3, 2018  

Like many others (unless they are in a state of simple denial), I sometimes feel paralyzed by the enormity of the environmental challenge.

How to break through this?

We must begin with the certainties.

A climate change-fueled switch away from fossil fuels means the worldwide economy will fundamentally need to change.       

Introduction

The Greener Jobs Alliance is a Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) supporter. We have identified Just Transition as a priority area as part of our work in the UK needed to ensure the implementation of union policy following the TUC Climate Change motion of 2017. This contained the ‘demand that just transition is integral to industrial strategy.’

Trans Mountain purchase by Trudeau Liberals 'a betrayal' NDP MP tells protesters

 

Democratic socialism is in the air. Since Bernie Sanders’s miraculous 2016 primary run – garnering 13.2 million votes and 23 state victories – the politics of democratic socialism has grown in popularity. I believe this popularity is based on its capacity to articulate clear and simple principles.

Watch the videos of the rally August 22, 2018

 Part 1: https://www.facebook.com/CoastProtectors/videos/167435717430138/

Part 2: https://www.facebook.com/CoastProtectors/videos/319939911906113/