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Climate Change, Capitalism + Colonialism

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When you hear “climate change” what comes to mind?

What is climate change?

Even Shell was talking about climate change until….

What’s causing climate change?

What’s causing climate change? Colonizers and colonization Burning coal and fossil fuels corporations Fossil fuels Post-it Stack!

Three vital takeaways: 1) We must prioritize the 1.5 degree goal; 2) There is no room for new fossil fuels; 3) Delaying is not an option.

So what’s the problem?

"Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature" ~ Naomi Klein

A Somaliland policeman helps a woman take her jerry cans home from a water trucking site during drought (March 2012). Oxfam East Africa under a Creative Commons Licence

What are you feeling right now?

Is there any good news?

Emissions from Canadian oil would exhaust 16% of the world’s total carbon budget for staying below 1.5°C - Oil Change International, “Climate On the Line” (2017)

1. No new fossil fuel projects.

2. Phase out fossil fuel extraction

3. Build a 100% renewable energy economy that leaves no one behind

Wednesday: Deliver the IPCC special report to your MP and ask them what their plans are to meet 1.5 degrees. 1point5c.ca

This weekend: Have a conversation with someone about climate change. Make it a habit.

Next month: Register for Rise 2019 -- a convergence of young people from coast to coast to coast. Coming to Ottawa in February 2019. bit.ly/2q7EP2A

“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark

Email: katie.rae@350.org Twitter: @katieraep Instagram: @katieraeperf