From Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2018:
Sample survey question: “Congress should do more to address global warming.”
6th Congressional District (Olympic & Kitsap Peninsulas): 62%
Clallam County: 62%
Jefferson County: 65%
Washington State: 64%
United States: 62%
Saturday, April 29 was a day of Climate Awareness marches in Washington, DC and around the world. In Port Angeles, some 600 concerned citizens from across the Olympic Peninsula and beyond came by bike, by foot, by carpool, and by busloads. Some presumably swam, like this pod of orcas from Port Townsend!
Lys Burden, Debra Ellers and Annette Ruzicka of Port Townsend
The event was organized by a tireless group of activists from Olympic Climate Action and supported by the Sierra Club North Olympic Group. Led by members of the Klallam Drum Group of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, this non-violent march moved with good spirit through the sidewalks of downtown PA in the rain. The majority of bystanders and local businesses showed their support and expressed an understanding of the importance of the issues being raised on this day.
More photos available on OCA’s Facebook page.
Climate change is real and now. Most of us get it. Humans must act in ways to limit its effects, and deal with surviving the changes that are here and/or on their way.
Give a rousing cheer for the many unsung citizens who took an afternoon out of their lives to make this a worthy event. Even the clean-up crew!
Check out the Peninsula Daily News story about this March for Climate, and some of the interesting commentary that follows.
The People’s Climate March is a nationwide event to re-energize and build the movement for climate action in order to fight pollution, protect human rights, and transform our economy.
Here on the Olympic Peninsula, we have the opportunity to build a coalition of communities and cultures dedicated to a just transition toward community resilience. Climate action here can mean moving toward stable jobs with good wages, building and retrofitting infrastructure to generate our own energy, increasing efficiency, and preparing for climate changes to come.
Together we can achieve a better future for us all. This is why we are concentrating our efforts into a joint march for the whole North Olympic Peninsula. This is our Peninsula, our future, and our climate.
In addition to climate action on the Peninsula, we stand up to protect the recently signed Paris accord, in which nations work together to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C, and thereby hopefully sustain a livable planet. We reject the call by members of the current federal administration to pull out of the Paris agreement and unleash a new wave of unnecessary and lethal fossil-fuel extraction.
The Sierra Club North Olympic Group and Olympic Climate Action invite you to join us. Let’s march together for our future. We have a great lineup of speakers and others to inform and inspire you!
We use non-violent means to achieve change. We are committed to nonviolence, inspired by the spirit of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and other peaceful protesters before us. No violence, no property damage. We believe that this approach offers the best means of creating lasting progress toward a just and healthy world.
On the weekend of Sept. 20-21, people around the world will gather for what promises to be the biggest climate demonstration in history, centered upon the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sept. 21, two days prior to a special climate summit being called by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, where world leaders (not just their climate negotiators) will be called upon to get serious about a world climate action plan.
The message: it’s time to act. And here on the Olympic Peninsula, we will march in solidarity in three places:
On Saturday, September 20, 2014, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., beginning and ending at the Port Angeles City Pier, OCA, along with other community groups, will lead a vigil, rally, and march.
10-10:30: Semi-silent vigil led by faith communities (or family time at the beach)
10:30-11:30: Rally with speakers from a variety of organizations speaking about how climate change impacts them in their lives and work
11:30-12:30: March around downtown Port Angeles, ending at the observation deck at the end of City Pier for photographs
12:30-1: Semi-silent vigil to close the activity (or more family time at the beach)
The “dots” are the various issues that impact and are impacted by climate change. We are seeking broad involvement by people involved in a myriad of social issues, because climate change will affect us all. Here is a partial list of participating organizations, along with OCA:
The visuals will center around a large painting of Earth which will be visually connected by ribbons to smaller “dots” with phrases suggesting the surrounding issues. These images will be carried in a long line during the march and then displayed in sunburst fashion, with Earth at the center, for a photograph with marchers at the City Pier observation deck.
People’s Climate March PA Poster
Photos from that day:
On Saturday, Sept. 20, OCA member Bob Lynette will give a talk on climate change and its local impacts at the Dungeness River Audubon Center from 10-1. Following his talk, OCA members will lead a brief march and photo shoot in support of the worldwide mobilization.
Our colleagues at the Fossil Fuel NW Action group will hold a rally and march on Sunday, Sept. 21, beginning at 3 PM at the Pope Marine Park waterfront. PT Peoples Climate Action poster
401: The peak concentration of carbon in the atmosphere (in parts per million) measured by the world’s leading scientists this spring — higher than any time in human history.
Zero: The amount of progress we’ll make if we stay home. There’s no guarantee this will work. The only thing that’s for sure is if we stay home, nothing will change — except the climate. More than 2000 events are being planned around the world, in 130 countries…let’s do our part on this beautiful corner of the planet!
As a lead-up to these solidarity actions, Disruption weaves together political intrigue, mind-blowing science, and an insider’s view of the largest climate mobilization in history. It features Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Van Jones, and some fresh faces with powerful new stories. Watch it here.
