In New York, a lot of people are going to march to demand that Biden end fossil fuels
Organizers of the March to End Fossil Fuels on Sunday: Climate Change Critics from a Global Climate Movement in the United States
Organizers hope Sunday’s march will be the biggest climate protest in the U.S. since the 2019 strike, which brought tens of thousands of people into the streets in Manhattan while millions more marched worldwide.
Demonstrators like Johnson joined a massive “March to End Fossil Fuels” on Sunday that attracted people from around the world. Hundreds of scientists, hundreds of organizations and brands, including Ben and Jerry’s, the NAACP, the Hip Hop Caucus, Sierra Club and other green groups endorsed the action. Jane Fonda and Mark Duplos are two Hollywood environmental advocates who have signed on to support. A group of Democratic lawmakers endorsed the march and called for Biden to stop approving new fossil fuel projects.
Protesters are calling on Biden to stop federal approvals of new fossil fuel projects, phase out oil and gas drilling on public lands, and declare climate change a national emergency. They are against the U.S. exporting oil and gas, and they want us to rely on renewable energy.
The summer of 2016 brought several extreme weather events, from historic heat waves in the U.S., to the deadly wildfire in Maui and the catastrophic flooding in Brazil to Libya, caused by climate change.
The United Nations High-Energy Climate Summit (CAMP Summit): Biden’s misfortunes and the challenge of his failure to end fossil fuels
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. Guterres has said only countries that present credible new plans – including the phase-out of fossil fuels – will be invited to participate. Biden won’t attend.
The world needs to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels if it is to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. To meet that goal, the U.N. says emissions must fall 43 percent by 2030, compared with 2019 levels, and eventually reach “net-zero” by 2050 – which means contributing no new greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere.
The United Nations warned there is a “rapidly narrowing window” to act on climate change after finding countries are falling far short of their targets.
Organizers say they’re especially disappointed Biden hasn’t kept a campaign promise to halt new drilling on federal lands. The Mountain Valley project is an oil and natural gas conduit from West Virginia to Alaska, which has been approved by the administration.
Alice Hu, senior climate campaigner at the New York Communities for Change, believes that Biden isn’t being the climate president that he promised.
In a statement, the White House defended Biden’s climate record, pointing to last year’s Inflation Reduction Act, which directs hundreds of billions of dollars toward incentives for renewable energy and other low-carbon technologies.
But Hu says the administration must do more. She points out the U.S. remains one of the world’s largest oil and gas producers. She thinks Biden is at a risk of alienating younger voters.
Does he want to be a candidate that enjoys high turnout of young people in key swing states, or does he want to be a candidate that doesn’t? Hu said.
Source: Thousands expected to march in New York to demand that Biden ‘end fossil fuels’
Why Princess Daazhraii Johnson Can’t Float on the Yukon River. Action, Support, and Support for Climate Action
The man 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 remembers when the news of the Willow Project went online that she did not get as much interest in her work from other students.
Arpels-Josiah said he volunteered for the 2020 Biden campaign while still in middle school, because he believed Biden would be a “climate president.” He’s going to pressure that president.
“I have the ability to take action, and if you have the ability to take action, you have responsibility for everyone who doesn’t have that ability to take action,” Arpels-Josiah said.
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. Salmon have decreased in size due to rising temperatures and 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.
Every country needs to slash greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 to meet global climate goals and save millions of lives and homes that could be lost to worsening climate disasters. That is possible if clean energy replaces fossil fuels. The US is the world’s biggest oil and gas producer and it depends if it can clean up its act.
Alaska is not a warehouse. We are not just here to get something from it. The Alaska economy is dependent on big oil and mining and their fear tactics is that if we don’t do this, the whole Alaskan economy is going to crash. We need to just transition off fossil fuels, and we need it now.
The work of Joe Biden: helping build bridges between climate change and fossil fuels: a new york city job with the voices of indigenous people
I came here because I believe our voices do make a difference. And I bring our indigenous values with us, values of just caring for one another and understanding reciprocity — how we’re connected to our waters, the land, the animals.
Construction workers, because we work in areas where the climate is affecting us, it’s sending people to the hospital. They are getting overheated. I’ve seen it myself. Sometimes the climate is too cold and sometimes it is too hot, because it is changing quickly. The work conditions are changing while others are not. Biden needs to work more on that and care for our planet and stop the pipelines while working as a worker.
Source: Protesters take over NYC streets to tell Joe Biden to ‘end fossil fuels’
Climate Change and the Rise of the Desert: Protest March Climate Change Ends Fossil Fuels New York City Joe Biden
We want more trees. More clean water is what we want. There is more air we need to breathe. We want more for the next generation. A place to live, a place to grow, and a place to live in a better world is what they need. When I was kid, I remember I used to play in our areas with a lot of trees. Now, those areas are private, and they’re not many.
I was very eager to come to this event and hang out with my friends from the Sunrise Movement. We’ve been mobilizing against climate change since I was a kid.
I would like for the US government to take responsibility for what they have done to the entire world. I’m originally from Pakistan, and last fall, Pakistan suffered the most severe flooding in recent history. The country was underwater one third of the time. Pakistan itself contributes to less than 1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. I want the US to recognize that this is a global issue now because of Western imperialism and because of Western consumption. They should 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’
Detecting Fracking: The Case for the Nation’s Most Disappearingest Pipeline: National Grid’s response to The Verge
There are people of color who live in neighborhoods where fracked gas is running. National Grid built the North Brooklyn Pipeline through Black and brown neighborhoods without the consent of the people. National Grid didn’t reply to a request for comment from The Verge.
I’ve been an activist all my life, mainly an anti-war activist, that kind of thing. I saw Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth in 2010 and said, “This is something that absolutely needs to be worked on.” This is the whole planet that’s on the wrong path. We are on the way to a cliff. So I started getting involved.
