'Future Hope' Column
By Ted Glick
It is always encouraging when an international call for unified
action on the climate crisis is put out and there’s a widespread,
positive response to it at the grassroots. This has been happening
periodically since the mid-2000’s, at a time when, compared to today,
there wasn’t much of a popular movement on the climate issue.
Today, one month out from the Global Climate Strike beginning on September 20 and going ‘til the 27th,
the situation is very different. The need for action on climate is
widely accepted, even in the United States, stronghold of the enemy of a
decent future, the fossil fuel industry.
The dates for this week of action were chosen to coincide with a UN Climate Summit being held on the 23rd
of September in NYC. The hope is that this summit will accelerate
actions to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. That
agreement isn’t strong enough to solve the crisis, but there’s no
question that acceleration is definitely needed given the acceleration
of extreme weather events and the very real possibility that we are
getting into climate tipping points territory.
In a press release posted two days ago on the https://globalclimatestrike.net
website, it was reported that: ”In addition to people walking out of
work to join strikes, marches and rallies, events include music
concerts, mass bike rides, teach-ins, people’s assemblies, protests
targeting fossil fuel companies, bike races and even a demonstration
in someone’s living room!”
Unions in Europe are getting involved:
“The leadership of one of Germany’s largest unions is encouraging its over 2 million members to join the strikes. Italy’s largest union representing 5.5 million workers just announced it will mobilise its members on 27 September.”
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