[MCN] My climate change email to Sen. Jon Tester today

[jean]

Please, it's "Jeannette Rankin" ...2 'n's

On 6/6/2019 3:35 PM, John Meyer via Missoula-Community-News wrote:
> Please let us know how Tester responds.
>
> The future of Montana’s economy lies in developing our renewable 
> resources like wind and solar. The “All of the Above” approach that 
> includes burning coal is literally killing us all. We have to elect 
> people that are taking a strong stand and working on the Green New 
> Deal. Tester, Daines, and Bullock are becoming irrelevant. Kathleen 
> Williams sometimes likens herself to Janette Rankin—hopefully she will 
> be strong like Janette and come out even stronger against fossil fuels.
>
> Make Montana fossil fuel free by 2023.
>
>
>
> John Meyer
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> On Jun 6, 2019, at 3:15 PM, Lance Olsen via Missoula-Community-News 
> <missoula-community-news at bigskynet.org 
> <mailto:missoula-community-news at bigskynet.org>> wrote:
>
>> Senator Jon Tester
>> United States Senate
>> Washington DC
>>
>> Dear Jon
>>
>> In December of 2018, recognizing the broad array of economic risks 
>> associated with emissions from combustion of fossil fuels, the 
>> Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, a group of 415 
>> investment firms managing combined assets worth more than twice the 
>> size of the entire Chinese economy, concluded that 1— corporations 
>> must be required to come clean on reporting their climate risks.
>>
>> That’s not all. This same group also concluded that governments must 
>> back away from 2 — reliance on thermal coal, and 3 —stop subsidizing 
>> all fossil fuels, and 4 — get on with putting a price on carbon 
>> <<https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/10/business/climate-change-investors-cop24/index.html>>.
>>
>> Try as they might, your colleagues across the aisle cannot dismiss 
>> this group as a bunch of socialists. Nor can they dismiss this group 
>> as a bunch of hippie tree huggers. Although they might try to look 
>> the other way, your colleagues across the aisle need to realize and 
>> admit that this group is a group of practicing capitalists, worried 
>> about rising threats to capital.
>>
>> I endorse and support the four above steps to reduce the many risks 
>> emerging from combustion of fossil fuels. My own concerns focus 
>> around climate-driven risks to living species and ecosystems, 
>> including risks to humans, especially children, but these concerns 
>> will be served with initiation of the four important steps urged by 
>> the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change.
>>
>> The beauty of this investment  group’s four-point pressure campaign 
>> is that it doesn’t focus on requiring corporate disclosure of 
>> exposure to climate risk as a single silver bullet sufficient to the 
>> cause. It also urges government reform on three counts, not one, 
>> rejecting any suggestion that some single action by government can do 
>> the job. That’s consistent with climate scientist’s recent urging 
>> that action will be needed across broad swaths of our lives and times.
>>
>> Last but not least the investment group’s four-point campaign is 
>> highly consistent with major features of the Green New Deal. But, 
>> however the Green New Deal itself works out, the Quixotic quest for a 
>> silver bullet has delayed realistic thinking for too long.
>>
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> *Elizabeth Kolbert:*"And I think the point that Bill has made, and I 
>> agree with it, is***maybe***we can avoid the worst possible future. 
>> But I don’t think at this point we can avoid a lot, a lot, a lot of 
>> damage.”
>>
>> *Bill McKibben:*“Look, Betsy’s right. So we’re not playing for 
>> stopping climate change. We’re playing*maybe*for being able to slow 
>> it down to the point where it doesn’t make civilizations 
>> impossible.That’s an open question. There are scientists who tell you 
>> we’re already past that point. The consensus, at least for the 
>> moment, is that we’ve got a narrow and closing window, but thatif we 
>> move with everything we have,then,*perhaps,*we’ll be able to squeeze 
>> a fair amount of our legacy through it. But Betsy is right, an 
>> already very difficult century is going to become a lot harder no 
>> matter what we do. It’s at this point trying to keep it from becoming 
>> not a difficult and even miserable century but a literally impossible 
>> one.”
>> https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/bill-mckibben-and-elizabeth-kolbert-on-the-un-extinction-report
>>
>> *^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^*
>> *Greta Thunberg:*“We live in a strange world. But it’s the world that 
>> my generation has been handed. It’s the only world we’ve got.”
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFvXc14g3AQ
>>
>> ————————————————————————————————————
>> “A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to 
>> call social traps. The term refers to situations in society that 
>> contain traps formally like a fish trap,where men or whole societies 
>> get themselves started in some direction or some set of relationships 
>> that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see no easy 
>> way to back out of or to avoid."
>>
>> John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973
>> —————————————————————————————————
>> Excerpt:  "Environmental psychologist Susi Moser, also talks about 
>> the importance of acknowledging our underlying fears and distress 
>> about climate change as an important coping strategy.  She argues 
>> that this is a necessary step for developing ‘authentic hope’ about 
>> climate change.  Moser (2012) calls it ‘the bravest thing’ – getting 
>> real, accepting reality without illusions, and accepting that better 
>> tomorrows may not come.”
>> https://www.isthishowyoufeel.com/blog/how-do-people-cope-with-feelings-about-climate-change-so-that-they-stay-engaged-and-take-action
>> ————————————————————
>> Teen activist says leaders *not* '*mature enough*' to take action on 
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/12/15/teenage-activist-calls-leaders-not-mature-enough-take-action-climate-change/>climate 
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/12/15/teenage-activist-calls-leaders-not-mature-enough-take-action-climate-change/>
>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/12/15/teenage-activist-calls-leaders-not-mature-enough-take-action-climate-change/
>> Dec 15, 2018 ... Greta Thunberg spoke at the global climate 
>> conference in Poland, telling officials they 'are too scared of being 
>> unpopular' to take action on ...
>>
>>
>>
>>
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