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Ahead of the State of the Union, Build Back Fossil Free is releasing "10 Ways That President Biden Can Choose The People Over Fossil Fuels."
Here are 10 executive actions @POTUS could take RIGHT NOW to address the climate emergency —> 🧵
Here are 10 executive actions @POTUS could take RIGHT NOW to address the climate emergency —> 🧵
1. Reject All New Fossil Fuel Projects!
Biden should stop approving oil, gas, coal, and petrochemical projects that poison communities and fuel the climate emergency.
#PeopleVsFossilFuels
Biden should stop approving oil, gas, coal, and petrochemical projects that poison communities and fuel the climate emergency.
#PeopleVsFossilFuels
2. Declare a Climate Emergency!
Biden should declare a climate emergency and use his powers to crack down on fossil fuels and advance good jobs building the just, renewable energy economy we need.
#PeopleVsFossilFuels
Biden should declare a climate emergency and use his powers to crack down on fossil fuels and advance good jobs building the just, renewable energy economy we need.
#PeopleVsFossilFuels
Look I’m nobody really. But I’ve been fortunate to have met ppl way smarter than me: traditional Indigenous scholars, academics, scientists, economists etc etc.
And via their lessons I’ve come to see how fucking critical the situation is.
We are in climate chaos.
And via their lessons I’ve come to see how fucking critical the situation is.
We are in climate chaos.
I’ve had cowboy coffee w/ Nebraska farmers - who talk of the land with sincere reverence & fight Big Oil from destroying their property.
I’ve marched w/ Sarayaku womxn fighting oil in the Amazon.
We are in climate chaos.
I’ve marched w/ Sarayaku womxn fighting oil in the Amazon.
We are in climate chaos.
I’ve seen the barren expanse of the Tar Sands.
I’ve stepped in the rising waters drowning Houma homes in Louisiana.
We. Are. In. Climate. Chaos.
I’ve stepped in the rising waters drowning Houma homes in Louisiana.
We. Are. In. Climate. Chaos.
VIDEO THREAD: This morning, environmental activists with @ShutDown_DC, @IENearth, @ArmInArmClimate blocked several entrances to the White House to demand Biden back policies for a fossil-fuel-free future.
At east entrance, they chained themselves to fake oil tower and wind mill.
At east entrance, they chained themselves to fake oil tower and wind mill.
"We'll speak to you in your colonizer language if we have to," an activist said in an interview directed at Biden as activists blockaded White House south entrance.
"We're demanding that you put climate at the front of your agenda like you said in the first place."
"We're demanding that you put climate at the front of your agenda like you said in the first place."
At the White House south entrance, a vehicle tried to get in despite the enviro activist blockade.
Activists cheered as police made the car turn around.
Activists cheered as police made the car turn around.
Today @JoeBiden takes big steps on #ClimateAction
✅Creating a National Climate Task Force
✅Setting clean procurement standards
✅Stopping new oil & gas leases on public lands
✅Calling for a Civilian Conservation Corps
✅Kicking off the Justice40 Initiative
This is a start!
✅Creating a National Climate Task Force
✅Setting clean procurement standards
✅Stopping new oil & gas leases on public lands
✅Calling for a Civilian Conservation Corps
✅Kicking off the Justice40 Initiative
This is a start!
Biden borrows from the best ideas out there--like from NY State's landmark climate law of 2019 that set a 40% EJ investment target. Don't forget that movements got us here and movements are what will push the Biden administration to do everything we need.
Stopping oil & gas lease sales on public lands will have a huge impact, including for communities defending their lands from fossil fuel extraction. It is the fights against pipelines like #KeystoneXL #DAPL and against fracking that have won this victory.
😿Here’s a huge ex of why these pipelines need to be shut down. They VIOLATE the rights of people &
Extreme Energy Injustice and Indigenous Rights Violations in Alaska - A Banking on Climate Change Case Study - The Understory - Rainforest Action Network ran.org/the-understory…
Extreme Energy Injustice and Indigenous Rights Violations in Alaska - A Banking on Climate Change Case Study - The Understory - Rainforest Action Network ran.org/the-understory…
😾animals & contribute hugely to global warming. Tho this article is a bit old the story continues & won’t stop until fossil fuel industry is stopped. The pipelines need to be shut down. Oil exploration & drilling on public lands needs to STOP. Also,
😾a halt should be put in front of industrial plastic manufacturing plants. The chemicals the plants emit are highly toxic & cause cancer & other Dz to the communities they invade.
Please help our country start ending dependence on fossil fuels, to save
Please help our country start ending dependence on fossil fuels, to save
