Declaration of Independence from Fossil Fuels
Declaration of Independence from Fossil Fuels
by Mark Dunlea
July 4, 2023
Putting Out the Planetary Fire
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary to act on global warming and dissolve our dependence on fossil fuels, a decent respect to the opinions of others requires that we should declare the causes which impel us to the dissolution.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that the burning of fossil fuels is a leading contributor to climate change. As a result of our addiction to fossil fuels, extreme weather, melting ice caps and glaciers, global sea level rise, diminishing food and water supplies, forced migration, and damage to public health threaten the world’s populations.
A new climate organizing handbook by the Green Education and Legal Fund – Putting Out the Planetary Fire (view here, order a printed copy here) lays out the existential threat to human life and civilization posed by climate change while providing the tools to win the needed changes. Please join the March to End Fossil Fuels in NYC on Sunday, Sept. 17 at the UN Climate Ambitions Summit.
As our world burns, our political leaders continue to sacrifice the common good to protect the wealth of the fossil fuel industry and the greed of the 1%. The head of the UN has repeatedly declared a Code Red for the Planet, yet our politicians fail to take the radical but life affirming actions needed to stem the climate emergency even as scientists report that within a few years – no more than five – we will pass the 1.5 degree C target cap for global warming.
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