News — global warming

The area of forests burned due to climate change has doubled and soon will double again. Article

Mike Roselle says that we need confrontation, controversy, sacrifice, noncooperation, going to jail, and civil disobedience. He has stopped timeber sales and nuclear tests. He cofounded Earth First, The Rainforest Action Network, and the Ruckus Society. He moved to appalachia to fight mountain top removal. Resist! No Compromise! "When you say nonviolent direct action, you’re really talking about the Nuremberg Principles, you’re talking about resisting, you’re talking about noncooperation, and you’re talking about sacrifice." "We need a crash program to decarbonize the economy, a big ask, but nothing less will save us." - "If we are compromising, we are doing a disservice to the movement." - I have to do something. I can’t sit here and complain about all these injustices in the world if I am not actively involved in trying to make things better. The work is inspiring. I like it when we build a good team and campaign and achieve something. That is a good feeling. I have a lot of memories of moments when we defied the odds, when we stopped a timber sale or a nuclear bomb test, and that is to me the reward. "" If we are compromising, we are doing a disservice to the movement. "- Se more in the Progressive

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A court ordered the state of Washington to create regulations to prevent global warming. link

See the movie "Disobedience" on 5-5-16 in boulder at 7:30 at Alfalfas grocery (link to local showing). It is about the protests to break free of oil, gas, and coal. See the movie online.

A Public Trust article claims that government has a duty to protect "life, liberty, and property". "Under the “public trust doctrine,” governments must manage the vital natural resources on which human well-being depends for the benefit of all present and future generations. Governments have no right to authorize their destruction to the detriment of constitutional rights to life, liberty and property. These legal rights can serve as an important frame for the public messaging and legal strategy of climate-protecting civil disobedience." Groups of young people are suing federal and state governments. This is a way to frame the governments, oil, coal, and gas companies as the bad criminals and to frame the protesters against global warming as the good law enforcers. link to youth group. RYSE group.