The March to End Fossil Fuels: A Climate Emergency Plan for the United States in the Light of the Last Major Climate March in New York City
Helen Mancini remembers the last major climate march in New York City, when then-teenage activist Greta Thunberg spoke to a crowd of thousands, demanding world leaders take action on global warming.
Johnson participated in the “March to End Fossil Fuels” on Sunday that attracted people from around the world. The action was endorsed by hundreds of scientists and hundreds of different organizations, like Ben & Jerry’s, the NAACP, and the Sierra Club. Hollywood environmental advocates like Jane Fonda and Mark Duplos signed on to support. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), US Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and other Democratic lawmakers similarly backed the march and called on Biden to quit approving new fossil fuel projects and declare a climate emergency.
Protesters say that Biden has fallen behind because he pledges to get the US on track to meet global climate goals. “You would think that our leaders around the world would have their eyes wide open. Look at what just happened in Libya. Look at Lahaina. Johnson says to take a close look at the suffering going on around the world. “Declare a climate emergency. Transition us off of fossil fuels by keeping it in the ground.
The march comes after a summer marked by extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change, from historic heat waves in the U.S., Europe and Asia, to the deadly wildfire in Maui and catastrophic flooding from Brazil to China to Libya.
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And it comes just days before a “Climate Ambition Summit” hosted by U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, aimed at pressuring world leaders to commit to more rapid emissions cuts. Only countries that have a new plan to phase- out fossil fuels will be invited by the UN. Biden does not plan to attend.
Scientists say the world needs to change to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. It’s the goal of the U.N. to get emissions to fall so that they can reach net-zero by the year 2050.
In a report this month, the U.N. found countries are falling far short of meeting their existing climate targets, and warned there is a “rapidly narrowing window” in which to act.
The administration has designated millions of acres of public land off limits to oil and gas development, and recently canceled oil and gas leases in the national wildlife refuge.
“I think the reality now is that Biden hasn’t been the climate president that he had promised,” said Alice Hu, senior climate campaigner at New York Communities for Change.
The White House pointed to last year’s Inflation Reduction Act as proof of Biden’s climate record.
But Hu says the administration must do more. She says that the U.S. is one of the world’s largest oil and gas producers. She believes Biden may be alienating younger voters.
Does he want to be a candidate that enjoys high youth turnout in key swing states, or does he want to be a candidate that is not enjoying that? Hu said something.
Source: Thousands expected to march in New York to demand that Biden ‘end fossil fuels’
Princess Daazhraii Johnson: Fighting the End of Oil, Coal, and Gas in the U.N. When fossil fuels stop flowing, the American economy will crash
Mancini agrees. Now a junior in high school, she’s been organizing school strikes with the youth climate group Fridays for Future since her freshman year. She said that she never got a lot of interest from other students when she was working on the willow project.
In the days leading up to the march, there were many activities done by the person named Arpels-Josiah. He traveled to Washington, DC, for a rally and met with officials from the U.N. He’s behind on homework and stressed about when it will get done. It is a challenge to organize high school and climate. But, he says, he doesn’t feel like he has a choice.
If you can take action, you have to take action for everyone who isn’t able to do so, according to Arpels-Josiah.
Princess Daazhraii Johnson, a member of the Neets’aii Gwich’in, hasn’t been able to fish at her tribe’s traditional camp on the Yukon River in Alaska for years. Warming temperatures lead to the decline in salmon because of burning fossil fuels. That’s one reason why Johnson was one of thousands of people who took to the streets in New York over the past 24 hours to demand an end to oil, coal, and gas.
Millions of lives would be saved and homes would be lost if greenhouse gas emissions were to be cut by every country to net zero by 2050. If fossil fuels are removed, that can happen. And a lot depends on whether the US, the world’s biggest oil and gas producer, can clean up its act.
Alaska is not connected to a warehouse. We are not there to just do one thing. I mean, we’re always up against big oil and mining interests, and their fear tactics of like, “If you don’t do this, then the whole Alaskan economy is going to crash.” We need to just transition off fossil fuels, and we need it now.
A Call for Action against Climate Change in NYC to Tell Joe Biden to “End Fossil Fuels” (Positivists: Protesters Take Over NYC Streets to Tell Joseph Benden to “
I came here because I believe that our voices can make a difference. Our indigenous values are about caring for one another, understanding the nature of the land and the animals, and so we bring those with us.
Construction workers, because we work in areas where the climate is affecting us, it’s sending people to the hospital. They’re getting overheated. I’ve seen it myself. Because the the climate is changing too quick, sometimes it’s too cold and sometimes it’s too hot. There are changes in the work conditions. As a worker, Biden needs to work more on that and take more care of our planet and stop the pipelines.
Source: Protesters take over NYC streets to tell Joe Biden to ‘end fossil fuels’
The U.S. is a global citizen and should the US government take responsibility for what we do, and what we can do about it
We want more trees. We would like to have more clean water. We need more clean air that’s free of pollutants. We want more for the next generation. They need a place to grow and live in a better world. When I was kid, I remember I used to play in our areas with a lot of trees. Those areas are private, and not many.
I was very eager to come to this event and hang out with my friends from the Sunrise Movement. Since I was a child, we have been working against climate change.
I would like for the US government to take responsibility for what they have done to the entire world. Pakistan was the site of the most severe flooding in recent history last fall. One-third of my country was underwater. Pakistan itself contributes to less than 1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The US should recognize that this is a global issue because of the way the US and other western countries handle it. I would like them to take into account what they owe to other countries when making climate policy.
Source: Protesters take over NYC streets to tell Joe Biden to ‘end fossil fuels’
Action for the Climate Change Change Law in the U.S., the North Brooklyn Pipeline, and the Censorship of the Second Amendment
There’s fracked gas in 2023 running underneath people of color’s neighborhoods. The people of Black and brown neighborhoods were not involved in the construction of the North Brooklyn Pipeline. National Grid did not respond to a request for comment.
I have been an activist for a long time, mainly an anti-war activist. And then I saw Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth in about 2010, and I said, “This is something that absolutely has to be worked on.” The planet is on the wrong path. We’re headed for a cliff. So I started getting involved.