‘There Is No Planet B’: Local Students Joined Thousands Worldwide Demanding Action on Climate Issues
This morning, students from Arcata High joined with thousands more around the world skipping school to participate in the Global Youth Climate Strike. The passionate movement began last year with a single 15-year-old girl, GretaThunberg, protesting outside Sweden’s parliament and swelled until it seemed that urban streets everywhere Friday were filled with youthful marchers demanding action now on climate issues.
“Why study for a future, which may not be there?” the movement asks. In some countries there are weekly Friday demonstrations and school strikes.
Students from Arcata High, Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy, and Humboldt State University walked out of class at 10 a.m. Friday morning as part of a global action to combat climate change.
Arcata High School Senior, Milo Mateer, waved a blue flag with a picture of the Earth on it as he entered the Plaza chanting, “No coal, no oil. Keep the carbon in our soil” along with fellow student demonstrators. Mateer said he was one of about a dozen students who organized the action.
Many held signs as they marched.
The signs and their faces expressed a variety of emotions but all centered around a call for their elders take global warming seriously.
Eventually, hundreds of students gathered at the Plaza to protest inaction on climate change.
Milo Mateer spoke to the crowd saying, “We are no longer kicking the can down the road. Instead we are picking it up and recycling it because that’s what environmentalists do.”
Daniel Noel listen to Milo Mateer delivering an impassioned speech on the Arcata Plaza.
Student demonstrators cheer as Milo Mateer delivered his speech on climate and the environment.
Arcata High Sophomore Ethan Ladd shaded his eyes as he listened intently.
Arcata City council member Sofia Pereira addressed students gathered at the Arcata Plaza Friday and explained some of the ways the City was doing its part to fight climate change.
Hundreds of students listen to Arcata City Council Member Sofia Pereira.
Daniel Adel addressed the crowd. He is a member of the Sunrise Movement, a group of young people organizing to fight climate change.
A demonstrator shields his eyes from the sun as he listens.
From Australia to Arcata, students returned to school after the speakers finished. Hundreds of thousands had marched. Then they returned to their books. Some with a new resolve to make a change. But, will the movement be able to create meaningful legislation?
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🕯Its what we do today that effects our children and their children in the future.
but corporations report profit quarterly. main reason we are so myopic.
I will bet 87 cents over 95% of those kids are wearing clothes from over seas. Which come on container ships burning 7500 gallons of fuel an hour. And I have heard the sky is falling bullshit for over 5 decades. Miami is not under water, nor are any other coastal cities, they are still building homes and businesses there. And people are moving there by the thousands to escape high tax states.
If you kids want to make real change, make your own stuff. Make your clothes, grow your own food, etc. Go into the hardware stores, find things made in China that you can make here, and make them. Demand that schools change their curriculum to include shop classes, wood shop, metals shop, etc. Then with the skills you learn, make as many things that you can here, reducing transportation carbon. The things you make here do not pollute. Goods made overseas do. If i owned a hardware store, and you guys made the same stuff I have in my store from China, I would buy them from you. We teach wood shop and metal shop out here on our ranch, the kids love it. You kids could find older people with the skills you need to stop a lot of pollution, by letting them teach you so many skills. And do not go to college, learn from a trade school or your elders, start you own business here locally, sell locally. Colleges pollute big time, just to heat or air condition the buildings. Then there is the transportation pollution back and forth, the infrastructure maintenance, and the bullshit the teachers are spewing out. They are truly dishonest.
So what are you going to do kids? Whine and hand wring and do nothing but protest, which accomplishes nothing? Or organize some way to make and do locally? The co founder of Green Peace said the earth is fine, and the climate is on the same track it has been for 10,000 years. Cannot argue with science. Do not say something, do something.
but then we can’t act self-righteous and indignant
You mean atomic warfare?
yes but if you really cared about the planet and man made climate change you wouldnt have children in the first place.
isnt it selfish to have children creating more demand for goods more stress o the limited resources and then not only tell others how they need to live but have your children do it as well .
what a load of crap… an approved walk out, how couragous. did they have to get permission slipped signed. i bet it was hard to get kids to leave school in the middle of class
This refutes the aphorism about “those can, do and those who can’t, teach.” This is a clear example of teachers doing, not teaching.
I am beginning to think that all these protest are nothing but a feel good/ virtue signaling time to take selfies and pump up a portfolio. Really. What is the percentage of these people protesting that actually are doing something work wise to make change. I don’t consider protest a work party but just a party. No, they are not creating ‘awareness’ that is a lame excuse. People have been touting one form or another of weather change/climate change for a generation or two. You would have to be a hermit under some rock not to have catch a glimpse or two of the antics.
What IF instead of protesting, spend the time using the brain to figure real solutions and goals because the walk outs really in the end accomplish nothing unless you want to include creating a divide between those that think alike and those that don’t. Instead of pointing fingers in accusations use those fingers to work, research and more work. Instead of yelling, chanting and slogans, use words and sane voices to go to the government and leaders and talk with realistic plans and goals. If they were really serious, they would be living the talk they profess to believe in 100%. And I don’t see these privileged kids even giving up 50%. Do they benefit from gas/diesel transportation? personal cars? cell phones? electricity? food from the grocer? clothes off the rack? computers? chemically derived cosmetics/hygiene products? plastics? I could go on and on but this is enough to get an idea about what I am speaking of with the privileges people don’t want to give up/ change. If they want to make change, let it start with them first then their families and on out like a ripple to become a wave. Waving a piece of cardboard around isn’t going to make change!
The saddest thing is to walk past a fruit tree in which fruit has not been picked. Perfectly good fruit left to rot. And the sheer number of people who either won’t or don’t know how to garden to raise their own produce.
Missing the point. The earth and its inhabitants are in trouble and the movers and shakers in this world refuse to do meaningful change, necessary change needed if we are to survive. The youth growing up today know what they are facing, and they are taking action. The youth movement is about empowerment, and from it future leaders of the world will emerge. The young in this world haven’t felt this kind of empowerment since the 60s. And yes, they will make a difference.
Amen, bro!
This^
Right here^^^
Screw the 60s!
I’m sick of hearing about how awesome the 60s were.
Washed up old hippies are the ones putting these kids up to this stuff.
Leftist activists are not much different than Christian fundamentalist in regards to lunacy.
I’ve known them both well, and prefer neither.
If anybody mentions climate change, carbon footprints or chem trails, I immediately tune them out.
We are going back to the Stone Age in a hand basket and their is nothing you or these kids can do about it.
oh so instead of doing themselves they need to force others to do force the movers and shakers ………live and let live
Drop out today.
how many of these kids walk or ride their bike to school? Doubt many as the parking lot is full, though only 3 or 4 bikes are in the racks. If they want to start somewhere – walk the talk…………….
bullshit. only massive systematic change can help us
Which will not happen until we change our individual actions.
Political actions being the most important in this case.
If you’re not willing to consider nuclear (both fission and nascent fusion technologies) you’re not serious about reducing carbon emissions. We can’t even get a wind farm built on Bear River Ridge because certain people think it would harsh their mellow.
Wrong. There are no nascent fusion technologies and don’t show your ignorance by touting ‘liquid’ or Thorium reactors because they are not a real thing, only lab experiments and an abandoned test decades ago. Even if we pretended the technology was safe and we had a way to store the waste for millions of years the cost per watt and the time needed to build them is far more than solar or wind and the technological hurdle of better batteries is a much easier challenge than nuke plants, though professionally maintained lead acid batteries would suffice anyway.
I’m all for solar and wind, but there is some major distance between where those technologies are and providing power at a scale sufficient to replace carbon energy sources. Evening out the erratic nature of power from those sources adds significantly to their already high cost. For the foreseeable future they can only be supplemental forms of power generation at any large scale.
There is current work in catalytic hydrogen fusion that has reached the energy output > energy input threshold at relatively low temperatures, which allows production of practical power generating devices. The US Navy is considering it as a power source for ships.
https://brillouinenergy.com/newwebsite/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/SRI_Technical_Report.pdf
Fission reactor design has come a long way from the Rube Goldberg contraptions of the 1950s to 1970s. The most important advance is the development of passive safety systems (the Westinghouse AP1000 for example) that run off the energy of the thermal core, independent from from any outside power source. China has embarked on a major construction program of such reactors to replace their polluting coal plants. Much more radiation per unit of power is released into the environment in the coal economy than in the nuclear economy. The radiation in the nuclear economy is more intense but more manageable because of the relatively small volumes of materials involved
Every technology involving significant amounts of energy – trains, planes, and automobiles – has gone through a safety curve, with a significantly dangerous initial phase followed by major safety development. Nuclear fission is no exception. The cost issues with new nuclear construction are in the same class as the cost issues that sank the high speed rail project in California. They’re a symptom of dysfunction. China doesn’t have the same issues, with the result that they’re beating the pants off us in both high speed rail and advanced power generation.
Are they really? China has such high pollution that it can shut down countries across a sea. What happens when the wealth transfer from the west to the east dries up?
A mistake in engineering at Fukushima Daiichi made a millenial desert with tentacles spread hundreds of miles away. These are not small errors along the way to eventual success. These are issues that are so awful that they hurt generation after generation. With too many such errors, it will damage everyone.
Their pollution from coal-fired power is one of the drivers behind their nuclear construction program, and they’re doing it on a scale that would make your head swim. China sets a strategic direction and they expedite, as they’ve demonstrated with transportation and energy. China is not as dependent on western wealth and financial systems as they were even a decade ago. The crisis of 2008 changed a lot of things, among them China concentrating more on a Eurasian economic sphere.
Fukushima is an example of the issues with first-generation nukes dependent on outside power for their emergency safety systems, and a fail in assessment of the tsunami hazard. The current fleet of legacy nukes is cause for much more concern than next-gen nukes.
As serious as the radiation releases at Fukushima and Chernobyl were, they have not made millennial deserts. One result of the ghastly Chernobyl “experiment” has been to provide a laboratory for evaluating the effects of a worst-case radiation release. After twenty years of no human habitation, it was found that wildlife is thriving and healthy in the abandoned area. The Chernobyl and Fukushima experiences showed that the effects of a large accidental release of radiation are mainly economic. Forced abandonment of human settlement and productive areas is enough of a bummer without pretending that an apocalypse has happened.
One reason wind and solar are so behind is because there isn’t enough govt backing (systemic change as one person said). If we wanted to we could put some major backing into solar and wind (like China is!) and we would create new industries and solve this problem. Too bad conservatives are against new ideas and somehow run the government. Glad to see kids taking some initiative and getting out there.
Yes, China is doing a full-court press developing non-carbon energy. We are definitely afflicted with ideological dysfunction, both liberal and conservative, on energy issues.
Thank you. We don’t need nuclear power.
I think you’re wrong about that. Doesn’t mean I don’t like you, just disagree based on widely available data.
it would be better if we didn’t kill everything else after we de-evolve into sub-humans. The fuel at Chernobyl is still burning its way down thru the ground along with Fukashima. the only difference between of the two is one has been capped with concrete.
Fusion may not be all fluff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn1SJOPgewo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
I read your second link. It is full of phrases like ‘has the potential to’. The project started in 1985 and they think they will start the plasma in 2025 and start the fuel cycle part of the design in 2035. This is a huge project and cost $14 billion as of 2015 and this is just a test facility. It seems unlikely to be part of any solution in time to make a difference if it even works. If we had put $14 billion more into battery research starting in 1985 we would be much better off.
And it would. Nuclear power was thought to be the ultimate solution until the waste started piling up and there were a couple of really devastating environmental ‘accidents.’ Even solar power has its downsides.
Atomic warms atmosphere?
People doing that would be massive systematic exchange.
and yet it would be insufficient without regulation on energy production and industry. we wouldn’t stay under 2 degrees of temperature rise.
200 years prior to ankorwat ponds,Cambodian times lindar,radar.
Really, you would encourage your child to walk in this area. This is an extremely dangerous area for pedestrians. Statistically speaking more young people are into environmental stuff than people age 40 and up. much more of them understand that the main issur on the planet is overpopulation and are unselfishly choosing to not have children. What’s with all the negative comments judging these kids without actually even knowing these kids and knowing if these kids are environmentally friendly, or what their goals are, or anything they do for the environment besides protesting. at least they’re not sitting around just making up random judgments about strangers on their keyboard. They’re actually out and trying to do something, how about instead of judging strangers y’all get out and go and volunteer and do something with your.
There YOU go judging! LMFAO! You don’t know diddly about what these commenters do as employment or in their spare time. I am not impressed by protesters as I previous said but rather work, hard work. Do any of these kids do anything environmentally constructive in the off hours from protest? are they living a life that is true to the cause or are they there just because. Its not really negative but rather calling out the virtue signaling that is falsehoods. I also am calling out the teachers who organize such protest. A better use of their time would be letter writing, grant writing, manual labor to improve the environment. A better use would be taking more science and math classes, finding mentors that are actually in the field making improvement. I understand but I am calling their protest ‘fluff’ because it does absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing to make this world better, it just makes them feel better because they falsely think they are doing something by hold a sign!
Climate change is a symptom. Over population is the cause. Isn’t it a disservace to fixate everyone on the symptom regather then the cause?
Over population seems to be a taboo subject, but it is definately part of the solution. If everybody planet wide limited themselves to 2 children or less, what a difference that could make. It would be the most selfless gift we could give to future generations.
Why is it so hard to talk about?
Because, like many ideas, it’s all in the details. Will the most intelligent people limit their family size, responding to education, leading to the stupid dominating the species? Will countries limit migration from places where having many children who can’t find access to resources has lead to social degradation, because of what use is it to voluntarily limit population if it is not universal? Will it be like China where government enforcement lead to girl children being eliminated because culturally girls are less valuable? Do you spay and neuter humans who won’t comply? Do you penalize the “extra” children because their parents were not compliant- maybe let them starve or deny them education?
The biggest issue is not whether populations are too big that is hang-up but who gets restricted and what such intrusive government needed to enforce does to ever other human activity.
Well, it could be that we figure out something, or Mother Nature will do it for us. Which one do you pick?
The one that has a better chance of success- Mother Nature, relentless and sure. And above all practical.
Elon Musk tickles my imagination sometimes.
His concepts of AI are similar to mine; regulate that $%!*.
But I like the space going adventures, frankly.
I think our long term survival will most likely expand to space through technology.
Earth may not be an end all for us, is what I’m getting at.
On that note I think the movie “Interstellar” ranks as one my favorite Science Fictions ever.
Greed and love for power is a cause. Ignorance is a cause. Believing actions have no consequences is a cause.
“The system” depends on an expendable supply of “human resources” and the polarity they provide the increasingly disgruntled have’s and have-not’s. It’s sad to read so many hating on the protesters rather than, for example, Humboldt’s politicians that perpetuate the status quo (all of them). But I understand the frustration, people have been protesting the exact same thing for decades before the internet, sadly in diminishing numbers and frequency. “The system” wants to keep these kids short-sighted to the fact that this event like those will be yesterday’s news as soon as tomorrow, and make them feel they’re part of some kind of all new social awakening. It pacifies everybody, and they’ll end up voting for the same left/right conservo/libero baloney as the cycle repeats while all the problems of overpopulation and pollution continue to increase exponentially.
Yep I agree. But symptoms need cures also. That’s how human civilization always works, one crisis to the next with very little foresight.
Your cat hangs upside down.
Reproduce now.
its about how many of us are living, and how dirty we live. a small number of us could pollute like crazy. or a greater number could live cleaner lives.
Youth is the time to try out the idea that your opinion is important, that you can do something about things which you know nothing without inconveniencing yourself, that hard work is something that stifles creativity. Then you get a job…
Idealizm
We are the problem. You are the problem. I am the problem. Nice gesture, but that’s about it. Ironically the same people who protest for climate change want install socialism and save everyone! Free needles, save the inmates on death row, treat everyone fair, make sure everyone has everything they need to stay alive no matter who they are. Save the humans they say! We are the problem. Humans. If you breathe oxygen, eat food, use fresh water, drive a car, wipe your ass with trees or simply pass gas…… your the problem. Depopulation is the cure, start with yourself if your that concerned or shut your trap, your wasting oxygen!
Support Anti Vaccers as the solution to over population!
Catholics and poverty are the reasons for over population
Well that is embarrassingly simplistic…
~what’s embarrassing is the too busy, distracted, or don’t care “Overpopulation” parrots.
I’ve noticed one subject that is never mentioned when it comes to climate change and that is the elephant in the sky called “CHEMTRAILS”. Our government sprays us with Aluminum which is toxic to us and animals, Barium which is toxic to us and animals and Strontium which is toxic to us and animals. CHEMTRAILS block the sun’s heat from reaching the surface thus keeping the planet cooler in the day BUT then this layer of toxic metals also keep in the heat at night from escaping back out into space. These ultra fine metal sprays also contribute to fires burning much hotter, these metals fall to the ground and change the PH of the soil making it difficult for some plants and trees to stay healthy. These fine metals fall into water systems changing the PH for fish and other water creatures. These sprays when combined with different microwave frequencies can alter weather patterns, move weather fronts, block weather fronts; basically controlling the weather as government see’s fit to do. I’ve watched over the last 25 years our schools go from teaching the three “R”s, spelling, history, ethics, learning our states constitutional rights which are individual to all of us and critical thinking; to not making a decision without somebodies approval, trusting that government is here to help you, giving up our rights for the common collective, and believing your emotions are so damn important! I’ve watched CHEMTRAILS since the winter of 97/98. All of these future leaders have grown up with these toxic lines in the sky and just might think they are normal. They are not! If anybody wants to call me crazy just do it in an intelligent manner please.
Chemtrails are proof that we’re basically governing eachother in designated regions while the wealthiest of the wealthy are shaping the entire planet without our knowledge or consent. It’s mindblowing how well the propaganda is working. It’s mindblowing how well the propaganda has always worked. Propaganda is literally a social science that’s being crafted every second of every day. Out of sight, out of mind.
Hear Here!
Damnant quod non intellegunt.
What altitude do they spray at?
Any where between 10,000 feet to 35,000 feet BUT usually they spray at the altitude of the incoming front.
What do you mean by a front? Like a weather system (i.e. rain) ?
I think it’s great these kids are taking the initiative.it’s there future are politicians are refusing to buck up too.I have a kid so wanna see change for her sake.anybody with children should be for battling against climate change! !!!
I would be happy to be able to buy a refrigerator that doesn’t need to be replaced every few years. Well at least the photos don’t show a bunch of high school students merrily texting inanities using the latest phone to other high school students with their latest device. Hardly a cell phone in sight. I wonder whether this was discussed before they left for the march…
Crazy that after 30+ years, SunFrost refrigerators have shut their business doors.
If you lived off the grid and needed an efficient AC or DC fridge or freezer in the last 30 years, SunFrost was it.
To boot, they were manufactured in Arcata.
http://www.sunfrost.com
Any manufacturing in Humboldt faces logistical hurdles that put a dent in competitiveness. We can’t even produce tortillas economically, for Chrissakes!
Crap… I did not know that. But am not surprised I suppose.
I know. What a bummer, sunfrost made nice, reliable units. We couldn’t fit one into the space we had, and our house is ac, the solar and inverter/ battries are 600 feet away. Sunfrosts are most efficient when run on dc. We had a small danish danfrost fridge for a decade, it always had a higher current draw than what the name plate said, kept popping diodes on one of the control boards, and the compressors were always blazing hot. I replaced it with an energy star 19cu ft whirlpool that uses half the energy with almost twice the capacity. It is also far more efficient than a sunfrost on ac. The danfrost serves as mouse proof storage now. The danfrost was $1300, and i could not ever get any warrenty work, or any one to service it regardless. I learned to rebuild the control boards myself. The whirlpool was $379 and the guy here in Weaverville can service the compressors if needed. Or we just buy another one and i have another sealed storage container, lol
I keep the baton passed between 2 sunfrosts. RU 16 and 19.
I bought one used from Russ @ banana belt in weaverville for 1500. 2 years running and no issues.
Happy and lucky to have em.
Planned obsolescence. It’s banned in Europe
They didn’t “take the initiative-” they followed an organised internet challenge which is used for many 5 minutes of fame challenges. Never have so many been lead around so often with such ease.
With some tempering of cynicism, I suppose a few might actually be inspired to be effective leaders in this in the future.
NATURE BATS LAST!
Think its great that the children are displaying more responsibility than our adult (corrupted by nothing but money)politicians. !!! Its time that politicians take this issue seriously or be removed from there greedy corrupt theif offices.anybody who has children regardless of political preference should think this way.denial ain’t no river in Egypt! !!!
To whom it may concern, my comments disappear shortly after posting, have been for weeks. Tried everything on my end, I know it’s a glitch but I give up. EDIT: and then they reappear! voodoo…
You have three comments up today.
The other two are here: https://kymkemp.com/2019/03/16/there-is-no-planet-b-local-students-joined-hundreds-of-thousands-nationwide/#comment-794741
And here: https://kymkemp.com/2019/03/16/there-is-no-planet-b-local-students-joined-hundreds-of-thousands-nationwide/#comment-794735
yep, sometimes they don’t reappear, digivoodoo. No worries thanks, I should have deleted this comment.
Edits do the same thing only when they are held past the timeframe to edit, they never get added. Is it frequent flyers on the comment section that are reviewed as being possible spam?
The only effective troll filter would eliminate internet commentary altogether. Imagine the masses of swelling arteries if that happened. A hundred and ten comments, half of them insulting high school kids. Fantastic. The internet is a cesspool first, anything else last.
And the viewer gets to see the phrase “This site uses Akismet to reduce spam” attached to the comment too before it disappears. Mostly these deleted comments reappear later. Sometimes a day or more later so maybe your stuff is there now.
Is it possible for the software to post a notice about the missing comment so the poster knows what happened? The worst is when an edit is held past the timeframe for editing and therefore never gets applied.
My software is holding them for moderation as you aren’t using the same sign-in.
Oh the humanity! I’ve gone up in flames like the Hindenburg and I’m taking you with me…
Guest, you shouldn’t be held. Your comments should be appearing immediately. However, you like everyone else are having to deal with resigning in every time because of a new glitch.
And the comment counts on the front page are still off.
As well as the say what section.
It seems to refresh for me whenever I comment.
Fyi
Sorry. We’re struggling.
No apologies necessary Kym.
https://kymkemp.com/2019/03/01/read-redheaded-blackbelt-this-letter-writer-has-a-suggestion/
I only mention it to make sure you’re informed, as you were, and as you do for us.
Cheers
With politicians greed always comes first.our politicians work for whoever there biggest campaign contributors are and will be in the next elections.they can’t take this subject seriously because the biggest pay offs and contributions come from the energy sector. Kinda like newsom one of his biggest campaign contributors was a nutrient company so he had to get giant farms running and squash the little people. It’s the way things have worked for a long time. There supposed to be representing us but there already baught and payed for when there standing on the podium lying to us.hats off to these kids it’s there future that’s being stolen and anyone with kids regardless of political preference should be standing behind them 100 percent. Denial ain’t no river in Egypt
Then join a board and do things right. I am proud of the votes I have lost 10 to 1 or 2 on the RREDC board. I wish you and 5 others had been there to help me but most of yall were too busy bitching about politicians, and meetings cut into your free time.
Don’t forget that the system claims our abysmal voter turnout is because the non-participators are happy with either choice. You can protest that you are against the system and boycotting it till you are blue in the face but it does not matter.
By the way, if you value US dollars you are complicit. If you use petroleum, you are complicit. You probably already know how many foreigners we kill because they vote wrong, their families would probably appreciate you at least “throwing your vote away” for a pacifist. If all the non-voters voted as a block they could elect anybody they wanted, though then they would need to do the work and couldn’t blame others.
I can see why the 10 to1 votes happened if your post is an example of your rhetoric there. Even if people agree with some of what you say, the rest is so hostile, unbending and one-sided that it would be scary as heck to let you hear even the mildest agreement which certainly would not be reciprocated. Ineffectiveness is not a virtue.
Then step up and replace me. You are on rhbb all day so you have time. BTW you never use your name so you are a coward and a troll (how’s that for ‘hostile’), feel free to give me dirty looks in town. I state what I believe.
People like you are why people like me don’t use their names. What you write about yourself is all I know about you and that is plenty scary enough. I am not willing to throw myself on the pyre that you are willing to fire, apparently with anyone not as extremely rigid. Is that cowardice? Possibly. But it’s not sensible to accept your assessment based on unwilllingness to commit suttee on your personal fire of self importance.
Good comeback for not wanting to reveal who you are.[edit]
You got called out too.
THIS^^^
I am glad to see the next generation inspired to be aware of the world around them and be involved to do something. Over time the ‘how’ may evolve, but the inspiration is there, and that’s gratifying.
This is a action, better that just talking about it.
Love
These young people give this Baby Boomer hope! Not much more I would rather see than another generation to pick up the torch for the advances Boomers made, and move us further to a more just and environmentally sound world! (And while we are at it….. I’d also be very inspired by seeing the cultural/economic change that the Green New Deal would offer US!).
Same here.
The advances baby boomers made? You made thos world shit for us 20 and 30 year olds. Were fogurong out your fucking mess. And your self importance suxks
Protect our future?
Lots of power in our own hands.
Who is willing to give up meat and dairy and go plant-based?
Meat for anemia.cristal for malnutrition induced depression.
Life began with an algal bloom.and carbon dioxide is reduced to oxygen by algae. Not god. Maybe he made elements,Elements ( called minerals made algae with sun and carbon from air).sorry to offend. Now 1/2 of oceans algae is missing, the rest is sick or poison,from our runoff.algae is pressed and heated to oil,yuck. Some is still left from way before from rich elements (84 ) from grinding of mountains,way before.now runoff is biased by our oil activity and our religious wars.the deposit in zacatecas mexico,when dug up and wet ,with sun and co2 gets about 100 times bigger,consuming co2 from air. It is about 2 meters by 70 km.nobody does anything there because IQ is about 65 -85 there,due to malnutrition,alcohol,and unjust land ownership.lack of money and now super dangerous.murder and kidnap central and government helps.smooth move gabachos.
2m by 70km ,with h20 and co2 and sun,100 times as big (slimy and green) that in 100 times as much water feeds fishes.and supersaturates with pure oxygen, alga (pondscum) is 20-80% oil. Wacala,everybody that lives there would have to run for it or have giant snow shoes.and 70% protien,whatever that is.
Subject is climate change, right? Recently I found out about the Savory Institute. Savory was the guy who convinced countries like Kenya and South Africa to kill 40,000 elephants because he thought the animals were overgrazing the land, and turning it in to desert. Turns out the elephants were not the problem. In one of his videos he admits this is his greatest shame and he will take it to his grave. It shamed him so much he dedicated his life to finding the true reason for the desertification he thought the elephants were guilty of.
In Africa, where he lives, people still burn land to get it to grow when the wet season comes. One hectare (2.47 acre) burned puts the same amount of pollutants and CO2 in the air as 6,000 cars. One billion hectares per year are burned in Africa alone. Think about it; the pollution from burning in Africa alone is equivalent to 6 trillion cars. These are his numbers (Allan Savory), not mine. His conclusion and solution, now being practised on over 15 million acres world wide, is to change the way the animals graze. By applying Holistic Management principles to the land, people can turn bare grasslands and deserts back to more productive land. Land that holds water, grows more lushly, and doesn’t have to be burned, releasing CO2 and other pollutants. He has tested his theory for over twenty years, and it works all around the world. He basically increases the number of animals grazing by 4X, bunches them together on a grassy spot, and moves them to the next spot before the grass is overgrazed. His solution feeds starving people while allowing humans to stop releasing CO2 in vast quantities. It also turns deserts back to lush grasslands. And it only takes a few years to do it, meaning it’s not too late for us.
Check it out;
https://savory-institute.myshopify.com
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=243721657
This was on NPR in 2013. I only found out about it by watching TED on U-Tube last week.
Humans are overgrazing.
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I am pretty sure this is planet B for homo sapiens.
The diversity of solutions to issues of climate change is evident in this comment section. Rather than argue against or put down others ideas, let the diversity of solutions empower change. Those who want to continue oppressing people and the environment cannot stop positive change if it is happening in a multitude of movements.
Making personal life changes and calling for systematic change are both effective ways to create change. They both require an enormous amount of personal effort and time commitment. Keep fighting for change in the ways that are meaningful to you and inspire others to do the same! We are all on the same team 😉
I am so pleased that our youth is trying to make some waves and I hope they continue to do so. We have been poor stewart’s of our planet leaving a legacy that’s hideous at best. Keep up the walkout kids. May you make a difference and not settle for anything less.