Ali Js (she/they)Jun 21, 2023
Here are some of the notes I took from the Project Drawdown talk about Climate and Capitalism:
- Project Drawdown working with companies and philanthropists mainly to scale up solutions - don’t have to wait for slow government change
- Not just ⬆️ climate solutions but also need to scale down ⬇️ fossil fuels government has to do this
- agitate at work, school, building strata
- Use any privilege or power you have
- Stop playing around the edges: hard convos at work
#climate #climatesolutions
Show threadBill Orcutt

@alijonesie

I am a fan of Project Drawdown & the work that they are doing. But:

When it comes to the #ClimateEmergency - It is not hopeless & we, the people are not helpless! If we take individual action - without asking anyone!

It’s up to us – WE,THE PEOPLE to save planet Earth by becoming #ClimateConsumers who actively mitigate global warming by our daily choices of who we donate to, vote for, invest/divest/bank in; what we buy, eat, drive/pedal; to degasifying & electrifying everything; reduce, reuse, recycle; & consume less. https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2018/12/27/35-ways-reduce-carbon-footprint/

This must see short film: “Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnyLIRCPajM tells us that “preventing run-away Global Warming is the single most important task in all of human history - and it is up to us to do it. If we don’t then everything else we have achieved in our lives will become meaningless”!

The United nation says: “Everyone can help limit climate change. From the way we travel, to the electricity we use, the food we eat, and the things we buy, we can make a difference.” https://www.un.org/en/actnow/ten-actions

Greta Thunberg @gretathunberg says - “Politicians are not coming to the rescue of planet Earth” https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2022/10/greta-thunberg-guest-edit-politicians-rescue-planet & “Saving the world is voluntary…we need billions of #climate activists” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/08/greta-thunberg-climate-delusion-greenwashed-out-of-our-senses

Robert Reich @rbreich Says “A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_sjfchNsiM&t=15s

William Stanley Jevons said: “Value is created by the consumer, not the producer… the consumer is the ‘ultimate regulator of demand’” - https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/11/how-humans-became-consumers/508700/

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Show threadAli Js (she/they)Jun 22, 2023
@WBOrcutt @gretathunberg @rbreich absolutely individual actions make a difference! I think these suggestions about pushing for change at work and other institutions is aimed at folks who want to take community and political action in addition to personal action like food and transportation. Of course there is always more each of us can work on doing!