Elizabeth Woodworth is a Canadian writer/librarian who attended the COP21 summit in Paris. Elizabeth is also my Facebook friend. We’ve developed a working relationship and supported each other in our respective work dedicated to a global climate revolution for all. Some time ago, Elizabeth arranged for me to receive Unprecedented, Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis? directly from author David Ray Griffin — a remarkable must-read book which shows how we can have 80 percent clean energy by 2035 and 100 percent by 2050.
More recently she was in Paris during the world’s most important climate conference ever — truly a global climate revolution. She lived those rare moments when some 195 countries were able to sign a climate agreement which is the first step in combating the perils of climate change on an increasingly hostile planet suffering from over-exploitation and escalating global warming.
In the following three video extracts, you will witness her first-hand experience and unique citizen’s overview of the Paris Agreement — the world’s most intense historical event in decades. Woodworth brings together COP21’s amazing successes and inevitable shortcomings, then points to complementary actions that may be taken now to speed up national responses to global warming. You can view the full 47 minute video at this link: A Climate Revolution for All.
Global Climate Revolution — The Agreement
Published on Jan 16, 2016
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Global Climate Revolution — The Challenges Ahead
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Global Climate Revolution — Proposed Solutions
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This video extract includes a unique approach to mobilization of climate action to supplement the COP21 agreement that was presented by climate scholar Dr. David Griffin in his 2015 book, “Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis?” (Clarity Press). This book can spark the global climate revolution so badly needed at this point in humanity’s evolution.
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Greenland is Melting and Calving Now, Jonas just went over Greenland at above Freezing Temps, for the first Time.
“And for the Winter of 2016 it’s possible that the Arctic may never experience typical conditions. For, according to NOAA, the first half of February saw this record, Spring-like, warmth extend on through today. It’s as if these coldest zones in the Northern Hemisphere haven’t yet experienced Winter — as if the freak storm that drove Arctic temperatures to record levels during late December has, ever since, jammed the thermometer into typical April levels and left it stuck there. ” Robert Scribbler
Greenland has 20 Feet of Sea Level Rise !
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In Order to Ready Themselves for coming, Record Breaking Rain, Wind and Snow.
Food Shortages, High Temps, Floods, Fire, Quakes, and Sea Level Rising 220 feet !
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Each 1C. Temp Rise, Atmospheric Moisture increases 7%
We have increased Temp 1.4C. and Climbing
1850 ppm Carbon 270
1980 ppm carbon 350
2015 ppm of Carbon 404 and Rising
What will the ppm of Carbon be when Greenland All Melts ?
Diablo Nuclear, San Onofre Fuel Rods, and All Nuclear needs to be relocated to 3000 feet above Sea Level
Over 3 Million Years of Waxing and Waning From the Poles, with the Arctic Keeping North America Cool, Now it is Greenland Because of Fossil Fuels !
Massive Sea Life Die Off on Pacific and Atlantic Coast !
Pacific and Atlantic Oceans 4 – 18 degrees warmer than Normal
Antarctica has 200 feet of Sea Level Rise
Arctic Region Warming Twice as fast as the rest of the planet !
Over 400 Nuclear Reactors at Sea Level Now !
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Thank you Daniel for the link to the petition. I have signed and shared it.
We gotta ways to go…
The key to whether we will make it or not is directly related to how much we are willing to reduce production and consumption of all product or more simply, economic growth. So far we only seem to be wanting to increase economic growth, we gotta get over that.
Unfortunately almost all discussions about the transition to clean energy involve job creation and economic development. We see clean energy as an economic driver rather than an environmental driver.
Yes that’s true Rolly, “clean energy [is] an economic driver rather than an environmental driver.” Under our current economic system, economic growth can’t be helped actually. Our economic system requires economic growth for it to survive, it’s an unintended flaw in the math of capitalism. Free enterprise can not go backwards or is dies. But it is also why we have climate change in the first place.
The problem is further exacerbated in that climate change is not the only problem economic growth creates, it also causes massive depletion of water and other natural resources, not to mention the byproducts of pollution and contamination. More yet is the reality that just getting clean energy is only one problem to solve with climate change, we have an even bigger issue coming down the pike with adaptation to climate change, ie all those people in coastal cities are going to have to move cuz clean energy is going to come way too late to stop the warming that will cause catastrophic sea level rise. Just think about NYC being moved, I mean the whole town and its people, and that’s just one city, there are thousands of cites on the coast.
It is very sad to me that we are being so shallow in our vision of this thing; that we lie in order to keep he high standards of living we currently have and are willing to ignore huge facts about our future with climate change. That is exactly why we only hear about clean energy and essentially nothing about adaptation. We’ve fooled the public into believing clean energy is the only thing we need to deal with climate change, it is a major farce.
Here’s the thing, even if by some miracle clean energy is the only thing we need to do to be safe from “climate change”, then what about water and natural resource depletion? Those can not be stopped with if we have economic growth, not unless we can find a way to pull natural resources out of thin air. This shortsightedness has to be looked at and stopped, or its gonna kill us.