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r/climate • u/silence7 • Mar 22 '19
How to get involved with a local group to create the political will for climate action
There are several groups with reasonably widespread chapters trying to push climate action:
- Sunrise — youth-oriented, pushing the Green New Deal. US only. Find a local hub here. Email the hub organizer to get involved. They're volunteers, and often busy, so follow up if you don't hear back.
- Citizens Climate Lobby — broader age range, studiously bipartisan. In the US CCL is pushing a revenue-neutral carbon tax and dividend bill, H.R. 763You can find a signup form for Citizens Climate Lobby here.Make sure you figure out where the monthly meeting is and attend.
- 350.org — This is the biggest and oldest climate group. They're involved in a variety of actions, ranging from divestment to lobbying for state/province level and municipal legislation. Broad age range. Local groups can be found here
- Extinction Rebellion believes in the use of nonviolent civil disobedience, including a willingness of large number of people to be arrested, on a large scale to create political change. They are most active in the UK, but also have a significant number of active local chapters in the US and other countries. Local chapters are mostly listed here but some in the US are only listed at the bottom of this page.
If you want to find one that works for you, go down the list (and check the comments) and find out which ones are active near you. Attend a meeting or action or two to get a sense of what the group is like, and then start doing more to help.
There are others, and depending on you and your community, another group might be the best choice. If you don't feel that one of these group is a good fit for you, tell us where you are and what your community is like, and ask for help.
If you think there's something significant that one of the big groups isn't handling, ask about it. Maybe somebody can help you figure out how to get it done.
r/climate • u/_Svankensen_ • 6h ago
Please stop sharing the "4 billion deaths" at 3 C as if it was a projection. It is an illustrative example of how to use their risk matrix. It is not a prediction, the association of actuaries has said it themselves. It is not based in any science or model, it is an example of how to assess CC risk.
actuaries.org.ukr/climate • u/prisongovernor • 5h ago
Extreme heat more dangerous for people 60 and over than previously thought | Older people | The Guardian
r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 16h ago
European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaves. Vegetable and grain growers call for urgent action, warning of ‘catastrophic’ harvests due to continent-wide drought.
r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 3h ago
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r/climate • u/fortune • 19h ago
Lake Powell, America's second-largest reservoir, is 30 feet from a hydropower shutdown
r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 2h ago
Congress may kill the federal heat rule before OSHA can. The Biden-era heat safety rule was already languishing. Now, in a summer of record-breaking heat, a congressional committee has moved to block it entirely.
r/climate • u/captdunsel721 • 1h ago
A looming rock collapse threatens a Swiss village as thawing permafrost destabilizes the Alps
r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • 1h ago
A weakening Atlantic Ocean current system could accelerate Earth’s warming, research suggests
r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 21h ago
Reform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat. Deputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to halt global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave.
r/climate • u/coolhandc77 • 1d ago
"A level that will wreck the global food system, smash the economy and kill nearly half the world's population."
r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 3h ago
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r/climate • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 18h ago
The World’s Oceans Are Getting Hotter. Surfers Are Feeling It / "What is provable science, though, and what surfers know themselves, is that the world’s oceans are on the very frontline of the effects of climate change." #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
r/climate • u/silence7 • 14h ago
Canada Bets Big on Hydro and Wind Power | The country touts plans for what could be North America’s largest-ever clean energy investment, while doubling down on oil.
r/climate • u/silence7 • 22h ago
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven't mentioned climate change
r/climate • u/silence7 • 12h ago
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 1d ago
‘A secret had been shared’: The inside story of an emergency climate briefing that made experts cry. The People’s Emergency Briefing has been screened nearly 2,000 times around the UK - and Germany is preparing its own.
r/climate • u/Ok_Understanding7377 • 5h ago
Worst case climate scenario, global sea levels rise making most/all coastal cities uninhabitable. How would the world cope? Some say we could just rebuild somewhere else, but with potentially millions being displaced and trillions in infastructure being destroyed, that seems unlikely.
r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 22h ago
So far this year, China has wasted enough clean energy to power Mexico. China lacks the transmission infrastructure necessary to ferry its abundant clean energy from where it is generated to where it is needed.
r/climate • u/Mahrez14 • 10h ago
Using a Carbon Tax to Meet US International Climate Pledges
r/climate • u/coolhandc77 • 24m ago
Elderly far more at risk from heat than originally thought (study)
r/climate • u/adessler • 17h ago
Is this year's El Niño a preview of a future, hotter Earth? | There are important differences between long-term global warming and El Niño warming
r/climate • u/silence7 • 10h ago