scott finteresting argument for the left to lean into making public transit great to beat back the right. https://newrepublic.com/article/189842/public-transit-democrats-trump-climate
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Rose Abramoff
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Earth scientist. Global change ecologist. Activist. Board of Directors Climate Emergency Fund. She/they.
Opinions expressed are my own - Facts expressed are science.
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Rick ThomanOnly discontinuous snow cover on the tundra near Nome on Friday afternoon, January 3, 2025. This is looking north up the Kougarok Road a couple miles northeast of Nome. Likely the lowest snow cover for for early January since 1970. Photo credit: G. Sheffield and shared with permission. #akwx #Winter2025 @Climatologist49 @Jdnome
It’s officially thrilled-to-announce season. I’ll start: today was my first day as an Asst Prof of Forest Science at UMaine! Super excited to get going 🌲🌲🌲
We can love and enjoy a community like #AGU24 while also organizing to change its behavior. Two petitions going around for the AGU to refuse sponsorship from ->
Fossil fuel companies: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-accepting-fossil-fuel-funding-for-science/
Lockheed: bit.ly/against_genocide
Check out our last four events today at #AGU24: srturtleisland.org/agu
Stop Accepting Fossil Fuel Funding for Science
Global heating is a clear and present danger to life on Earth. The primary cause of global heating is fossil fuels. The fossil fuel industry has colluded for decades to systematically mislead the public and to block climate action at all levels of government. In the context of these three densely-researched and widely known facts, and with research that shows a correlation between fossil fuel industry funding and biased research reporting (Almond, Du & Papp, 2022, in Nature Climate Change) it is imperative that scientists and scientific organizations like the American Geophysical Union (AGU) reject further funding from the fossil fuel industry.
A good read for this week: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/
🥼#ScienceToAction at #AGU24🥼
Time to skill up in grassroots activism & register for our afternoon pre-conference workshop with @Fisher_DanaR @ClimatePsychologyAlliance @Nathanpboston & more
https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Session/225811
Then check out our other events! @SRTurtleIsland
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Science to Action: Practical Skills for Scientists to Participate in and Support Nonviolent Grassroots Activism
For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the climate and ecological crisis. Each successive report has delivered alarming findings, yet these warnings have been met with political inertia and an insufficient international response. Consequently, the disastrous effects of human activity on land, water, and atmosphere persist, surpassing the Earth's system boundaries and posing existential threats to both nature and humanity [1,2]. At the same time, an impassioned climate movement has emerged, led primarily by young activists and most-affected peoples demanding immediate climate action [3]. Inspired by this movement, scientists and academics are increasingly taking on roles that directly address the imbalance of power that prevents meaningful climate action [4,5,6]. In collaboration with historically marginalized communities and activists, scientists can engage in a variety of tactics to apply pressure on those in power to take action. This workshop is for those researchers who wish to gain practical skills in grassroots organizing. Lessons learned in this workshop can be applied to supporting intersectional movements but will focus primarily on climate justice and harnessing the particular leverage held by academics and Earth scientists. Learning goals include understanding common and emerging strategies of grassroots organizing, including ways to build collective power and practice nonviolence. We will cover overarching principles and strategies, with specific examples from organizers, as well as practical aspects of participating in and organizing with nonviolent movements. Participants will think critically about power and outcomes, as well as action design, interacting with law enforcement, emotional self-regulation, and de-escalation. We will end with a written reflection. References: [1] IPCC AR6 SYR 2023 [2] Rockström et al. 2023 Nature [3] Shuman et al. 2021 JPSP [4] Artico et al. 2023 Front Sustain [5] Capstick et al. 2022 Nat. Clim. Chang. [6] Gardner et al. 2021 Front Sustain
If you or someone you know suffered one of the many climate disasters in the past few days alone, please understand that it keeps getting worse until we stop burning fossil fuels.
Please join us in activism. Let's do a climate action group roll call: I'll start
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So many great (free!) events happening at EthicalNYC
I'll be there Sun 9/22 talking activism with Joe Chuman, special musical guest Carolyn Enger
Come on by!
https://ethical.nyc/events/sunday-platform-with-rose-abramoff/
Sunday Platform: Interview with Scientist-Turned-Activist Rose Abramoff w/ Special Musical Guest Carolyn Enger | The New York Society for Ethical Culture
Free and open to the public, in-person and online! Leader Dr. Joe Chuman interviews scientist-turned-activist Rose Abramoff, a former earth scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who was fired after demanding her fellow scientists take action to fight climate change. Read Rose's op-ed in the New York Times: I'm a Scientist Who Spoke Up About
Registering for #AGU24?
Check out our pre-conference workshop on Dec 8
Science to Action: Practical Skills for Scientists to Participate in & Support Nonviolent Grassroots Activism led by the AMAZING
@MarlaMarcum from @ClimateDisobey @NoCoalNoGas
Space limited!
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https://www.agu.org/annual-meeting
The advice for dealing with high publication fees feels like fossil fuel industry advice to environmentalists - new light bulbs! recycle! and not: organize scientists to take over academic journals and turn them into non-profit cooperatives 😉
