363 #ClimateAction #Amazon #Petition #350

[1]Apart from all the usual existential threats to "the lungs of the world" * there is a new very dangerous threat: drilling for natural gas. They call it clean, and they are partly right. A natural gas plant is cleanER than a coal plant. But it's still burning dino's and producing CO2.
There is an added danger to it, though: searching for and drilling for LNG and the transport causes massive leakage of methane. A gas that's almost 6 times more devastating to the climate than CO2. Directly and very much worse for the vast and diverse ecosystem of a rainforest
Changes in the energy market made searching and drilling for LNG much more profitable, and propagating LNG as "clean[er]" makes investing even more profitable.

About the petition:
STOP FUNDING AMAZON DESTRUCTION
#Citibank, #JPMorganChase, #ItaúUnibanco, #Santander, #BankOfAmerica and #HSBC have poured at least USD $20 billion into fossil fuel projects in the Amazon. These six banks alone are behind half of all the funding towards destructive oil and gas exploration in the rainforest.
They have promised to take action for the climate, preserve biodiversity and protect human rights. But in reality, their money is the driving force behind the destruction.
They are funding drilling which is threatening to turn the Amazon into a dry savannah. Their money is behind the threats faced by Indigenous and traditional communities there.
We cannot accept that these banks profit from claiming to be sustainable but do the opposite.
Sign the petition to demand they end investments in oil and gas exploration in the Amazon.

act.350.org/go/419209?t=8&akid…

For the full petition text see:
363 #ClimateAction #Amazon #Petition #350

[2]* has it occured to you that 'we' don't name the Amazon like that since decades?

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth #StopBurnigThings

Three groups — "Fridays for Future", "Fight Fossil Fuels", and "End Fossil Fuels USA" — are teaming up to stage mass climate protests and strikes all around the world next month.

Here's part of their message...
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Our world is in crisis. Extreme weather caused by the climate emergency is wreaking havoc in our communities and ecosystems across the globe, causing social insecurity and harm to people.

The biggest cause of this crisis is fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas.

The fossil fuel industry is driving a predatory and destructive economic system that harms people and the planet, fuelling climate break down.

Fossil fuels are bad for the climate, for ecosystems, for our people, for our health, for our democracies, and for our economies.

The science is clear: what the world needs now is a rapid and just transition to an energy and economic system that is efficient, fair, and universal. A system based on clean energy sources and produced with respect for nature and the sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples.

This September, as world leaders discuss climate action at the United Nations in New York, people on every continent will join the largest-ever globally coordinated action and together WE WILL end fossil fuels.

The climate crisis is escalating but so is the global movement for climate justice. We need all hands on deck to win this fight.
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LEARN MORE --

✊ fightfossilfuels.net/

✊ fridaysforfutureusa.org/sept-1…

✊ endfossilfuels.us/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction

Asking has not worked.

Voting has not worked.

Marching has not worked.

Emissions keep going up. Extinctions are on the rise. Nothing has changed.

So, is it time now for some of us to take a step over the line?

Would you commit a "crime" if you knew that doing so could potentially save thousands of lives?

Those are tough questions, and they are given thought-provoking and perhaps challenging answers in this piece...
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The environmental movement has offered waves of demonstrations, petition drives, lobbying and other forms of protest. Yet, despite all that, Earth and its inhabitants are losing the war waged against us by capitalism. It follows that a reevaluation of strategy and tactics of the environmental movement is in order, including a closer examination of how nonviolence should be understood and practiced.

In this context, we need to ask ourselves whether the destruction of planet-killing machinery is necessarily an act of violence. The answer should be no, because it prevents violence against nature. But, as a whole, the environmental movement’s dedication to the strict avoidance of property destruction is extreme in comparison to virtually all other social justice movements.
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FULL ARTICLE -- systemchangenotclimatechange.o…

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