Bill McKibben writes in the latest Rolling Stone magazine:
How to Tell If Your Reps Are Serious About Climate Change
In the wake of Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, how serious are your elected leaders about fighting back?
Category Archives: Commentary
Trump’s “low-energy” thinking on energy
Oppose Kinder-Morgan pipeline to protect our water and climate
Letter to the editor from OCA member Lisa Dekker:
“Here in our waterway, ecological and economic interests are one and the same, and this pipeline project absolutely must be stopped.”
While Feds fail, locals step up
President Trump’s withdrawal from our country’s commitment to the Paris climate accord has engendered both dismay and determination around the globe, and here on the Olympic Peninsula, Olympic Climate Action has joined that chorus. Around the country, groups are now calling for their state and local governments to fill in the void of federal leadership by committing to meet the goals of the Paris accord. Members of Olympic Climate Action have worked for more than four years to educate North Olympic Peninsula communities regarding climate change, and we have seen our Peninsula governments respond with serious efforts undertaken at the tribal, county, and city levels to incorporate sustainability into their operations and come to grips with the challenge of climate change. While there is more work to be done, we want to take the opportunity at this critical point in history to applaud these local efforts and commit ourselves to facilitate them in any way we can, to, in the words of the Preamble to the United States Constitution, “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”
We invite concerned individuals to join OCA’s Local Climate Action Planning Committee to help move these efforts forward. Contact us at https://olyclimate.org/contact-us/.
Here are some links highlighting Peninsula governments’ actions to protect us from climate change:
Climate adaptation grant for North Olympic Peninsula
Sequim adopts sustainability resolution
Port Angeles adopts climate planning policy
Clallam commissioners adopt climate change work plan
Ozias commits to climate action
Climate activists & Peninsula officials react to Trump’s pullout from Paris
Jefferson County/Port Townsend Climate Action Committee
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe study of climate impacts and adaptation
On Paris accords, remember first-world nations had head start on exploiting fossil fuels
Letter to Peninsula Daily News from OCA member Bill Marsh of Port Angeles:
When President Donald Trump told us June 1 of his decision to pull out of the Paris climate change agreement, he referred to how China and India were less limited by it than the U.S.
Our president conveniently seemed to forget that the agreement was an attempt to be fair to countries that have not had a century or more lead time in exploiting fossil fuels, as we and Europe have.
I haven’t forgotten.
I hope readers won’t either.
Climate activists & Peninsula officials react to Trump’s pullout from Paris
This Peninsula Daily News story in the wake of Donald Trump’s announced withdrawal from the Paris climate accord includes reactions from OCA members, the Local 20/20 sustainability group in Port Townsend, and officials from Clallam County and the Jamestown S’Klallam, Quileute, and Quinault Tribes:
