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      Youth Climate Activists Finally Have Some Backup—Though We May Be Sitting Down.

      Older people like me have decided not to go quietly. We're calling it the Rocking Chair Rebellion. It's one small sign of a promising new trend and we hope you'll join us.

      Bill Mckibben
      Mar 17, 2023

      On Tuesday, March 21, I’ll be sitting in a rocking chair in Washington, DC. Which doesn’t sound particularly daring, except that the rocking chair—and 50 more like it—will be blocking the doors of a Chase bank branch, part of a nationwide day of action largely orchestrated by a group called Third Act which draws it members from people over 60. We're calling it the Rocking Chair Rebellion, and it's one small sign of a promising new trend: older climate activists, ready to back up young leaders.

      Young people have been at the heart of the climate movement, as I know better than most. When we started 350.org in 2008, the first global grassroots climate campaign initially consisted of 40-something me, and seven college kids. We launched the fossil fuel divestment campaign—and then watched as tens of thousands of students on campuses around the world helped turn it into the largest anti-corporate campaign ever, with $40 trillion worth of endowments and portfolios pulling out of coal, gas, or oil. Many of those divestment activists, when they graduated, wanted to keep going and so they formed the Sunrise Movement, which brought us the idea of Green New Deal—and hence, albeit in shrunken form, the reality of the Inflation Reduction Act. And meanwhile, Greta Thunberg and her thousands of peers around the world’s high schools and junior highs were mobilizing many millions of their fellow teenagers for action.

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      People look at a damaged road in Blantyre, Malawi on March 14, 2023.

      Fossil Fuel Giants Urged to 'Pay Up' After Tropical Cyclone Freddy Kills 300+

      "Disasters such as these are further evidence of the injustice suffered by the nations that contribute least to the climate crisis," said one campaigner as thousands in Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar mourn.

      Kenny Stancil
      Mar 16, 2023

      As the death toll from Tropical Cyclone Freddy continues to rise, climate justice advocates are imploring the fossil fuel corporations most responsible for the destruction to reduce their planet-wrecking emissions, compensate victims, and fund rebuilding.

      The intense and long-lasting storm—precisely the type of extreme weather event that scientists have warned is more likely due to unmitigated greenhouse gas pollution—has hammered the southern African countries of Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar in recent weeks. Flooding and mudslides have killed more than 300 people, injured hundreds of others, and displaced at least 20,000 households. Ongoing rainfall has complicated burial services and rescue efforts as hundreds remain missing.

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      A demonstrator holds a poster demanding "system change not climate change" during a global march organized by Fridays for Future in Cologne, Germany on March 19, 2021.

      100+ Groups Urge Congress to Abandon 'Carbon Utilization Fantasy'

      "Promoting the utilization of captured CO2 in petrochemicals, plastics, and fuels, as your legislation would encourage, will perpetuate environmental justice harms and subsidize the oil and gas industry to do it."

      Jessica Corbett
      Mar 06, 2023

      More than 100 organizations on Monday urged the congressional sponsors of a new proposal that would boost the tax credit for certain carbon capture projects to shift their focus to solutions that will actually address the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency.

      The groups—including 350.org, Beyond Plastics, Center for Biological Diversity, Food & Water Watch, Indigenous Environmental Network, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC) Action!, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN), and Waterspirit—oppose the Captured Carbon Utilization Parity Act (S. 542/H.R. 1262).

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