Author: Brittany Flynn (Page 2 of 2)

This is a video about the people in Ecuador who are fighting against the drilling of oil in the Amazon.  An Ecuadorian girl talks about how allowing drilling is wrong.  She says how the people are being a “pain in the ass” for the government.  The government say that allowing drilling will solve poverty, but the Ecuadorian girl says it will not solve poverty, and it will destroy culture and kill animals.  Her grandfather used to say “it is from the amazon that the breath of the world comes from.”  If the amazon is destroyed then the world is in trouble.  It is a great video that has a lot of video footage of the destruction going on in the beautiful Amazon. There is also video of the people protesting against the drilling and they are asking for support from the rest of the world.

http://amazonwatch.org/take-action/keep-the-oil-in-the-ground-in-the-amazon

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/opinion/to-save-the-planet-dont-plant-trees.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0

This article in The New York Times is talking about the UN meeting this Tuesday.  The UN is meeting to talk about the climate crisis and measures that can be taken to reduce carbon emissions.  One measure they will talk about is stoping deforestation and planting trees, but researchers have found this might not be the best route to take.  Climate scientists have found that planting trees in the tropical areas would lead to cooling, but in colder areas it would cause warming. The article goes into more detail about their findings, but overall the measure to plant trees is probably not the best route to take for reducing climate change.  President Reagan quote that, “Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do,” might be less wrong than many assumed.  This is indeed a sad conclusion because it is one of the easier measures to accomplish but the end results are proven to be unhelpful.  Hopefully the UN will come up with better action plays, which are scientifically proven to help reduce climate change.

http://watchdisruption.com

This is a 50 minute video about climate change and about the People’s Climate March next Sunday.  It talks about the history of climate change and how it is not a new idea.  There are a lot of prominent scholars who talk in this video.  Denis Hayes, the organizer of Earth Day, is in this video!  There is a lot of video and discussion about the changes in weather as a result to climate change and the impact of devastating storms like Katrina, Sandy and Typhoon Haiyan.  The main message in this video is that we need to stop using fossil fuels.  There needs to be public support and people need to be in the streets to make a change for the future.  The UN is meeting in NY on September 23rd.  This is why there is a mobilization of people and organizations to have the largest climate march in history on September 21st.

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There will be People’s Climate March in New York City on September 21st. This march is taking place two days before world leaders get together for an emergency Climate Summit at the UN. Americans will be coming from all parts of the country to stand together and demand bold action at the summit. There are other marches occurring worldwide in London, Paris, Australia, Berlin and other cities. This will be a monumental moment in history for the environmental social movement.

More information can be found on the link I posted above.