Open Letter to Fridays For Future. It’s Time for Action, but, what Action?

By Margarita Mediavilla, 15/15\15

Dear Fridays For Future activists: I am writing to you as a member of a research group from a Spanish University that has been working on issues of sustainability, energy and climate change for more than ten years. I am doing this because I think that, as you say, it is time for action in the face of the climatic emergency, but I also think that it is necessary to be very clear about what kind of action is necessary.

This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook: Review

By Suki Ferguson, Red Pepper

This Is Not A Drill has been written to clarify, inform, inspire and equip the people who are undecided yet interested in moving deeper into the climate action zeitgeist XR has ingeniously catalysed.

Of warnings and their ripple effects

By Albert Bates, Medium

The problem with this warning, and perhaps also why it is shedding supporters, is that it says all the right things but feels like it is speaking to an empty room. It has all been said before. I confess I have the same issue with street protests. At some point, you have to put down the placard and actually do something about the situation.

Greta and Tokata at the Front Lines

By Talli Nauman, Tatyana Novikova, Esperanza Project

On a world tour for climate justice, Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg visited Native America Oct. 6-8, attracting a gymnasium full of enthusiasts at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, leading a march on Rapid City Hall alongside youth climate leader Tokata Iron Eyes, and speeding off to the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation.

Youth Who Led Global Climate Strike Are Bringing a New “Spirit” to Climate Fight

By Bill McKibben, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now

As the World Meteorological Organization points out, we’re at a tipping point physically. The planet really is starting to break in profound ways. We’re also at a tipping point, maybe, politically. There’s finally enough recognition, enough demand for action, that maybe things will start to happen.

There’s Evidence that Climate Activism could be Swaying Public Opinion in the US

By Nathaniel Geiger, The Conversation

I’m a scholar of environmental communication who examines how people become engaged with solving dilemmas such as climate change, and how activism motivates others to take action. A new study I worked on suggests that large rallies, such as this youth-led Climate Strike, could be influencing public opinion.

Greta Thunberg’s Speech at the UN Climate Action Summit

By Greta Thunberg, PBS News Hours

This is all wrong. I shouldn’t up here.here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope? How dare you!You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones.

Why You Should Join the Global Climate Strike this Friday

By Bill McKibben, The Guardian blog

Many people, of course, can’t do without a day’s pay, or work for bosses who who would fire them if they missed work. So it really matters that those of us with the freedom to rally do so. Since I published the first book for a general audience on climate change 30 years ago this month, I’ve had lots of time to think about the various ways to move people to action.

The real reason the climate movement has failed

By Erik Curren, Transition Voice

In the last three decades since the climate movement has gotten active, the world’s economy has released more greenhouse pollution than in the years previously since the Industrial Revolution. Clearly, whatever progress on public policy that the movement has made with governments and businesses, those governments and businesses have failed to take meaningful action. Why?

Softening as a climate adaptation strategy

By Elizabeth Sawin, Resilience.org

I hate so many things about climate change: the waste, the injustice that those who have contributed least suffer the most, the lost opportunities for prevention. But, there is something that inspires me in the notion that climate change could teach us to soften.

What Is the Climate Movement’s State of Play?

By Bill McKibben, Great Transition Initiative

We must use this moment as crucial leverage to push the planet in a new direction. Let us try. If we succeed, then we have risen to the greatest crisis humans have ever faced and shown that the big brain was a useful evolutionary adaptation. If we fail—well, we better to go down trying.

The Miraculous Hope of Climate Realists

By Erika Spangler-Siegfried, Union of Concerned Scientists

The fight we signed up for is now the fight for what's left and the people who get left with it. That's all, really. But it's also everything. And you, my weary friend, will never stop.