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Size<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Past climate rallies have generally run from a few dozen people to a <\/p>\n Inspiration and direction<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You will hear from: <\/p>\n Entertainment<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In between the speakers we will hear from some of the most committed <\/p>\n Intensity<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 1970, I told huge Earth Day crowds in Washington, DC, Chicago, <\/p>\n Earth Day organizers created a Dirty Dozen campaign that made “the <\/p>\n Over the next three years, despite fierce opposition from the most <\/p>\n Now we must do it again.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What is the goal?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Humanity must swiftly abandon dirty energy sources and switch to <\/p>\n A necessary-though not sufficient-common denominator is to <\/p>\n Only a federal law can accomplish this goal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If this were easy, we would have begun a quarter century ago. The <\/p>\n Sooner is better<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They will lose for the same reason that IBM and Control Data lost to <\/p>\n The junk science, climate-disruption-denying interest groups <\/p>\n Come to the Mall<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n At some point, this climate-disrupting madness has to start to stop. <\/p>\n And put our political leaders on notice that you will vote with your ballot a few months later!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n Deep thoughts from founder Chip Giller<\/a><\/p>\n The Perils of ‘Green Watching’<\/a><\/p>\n Graham doesn’t want climate bill associated with Earth Day<\/a><\/p>\n
\ncouple thousand. On Sunday, April 25, energy and climate activists from
\nNew England to the Carolinas will gather together to find new friends
\nand allies at largest climate rally ever. We are coming together to
\nmove beyond education; to demand change; and to make it clear there
\nwill be political consequences of Congress doesn’t act.<\/p>\n
Climate scientists like James Hansen, and Stephen Schneider.
EPA chief (and heroine!) Lisa Jackson and CEQ Chair Nancy Sutley
Cultural leaders like James Cameron (Avatar; Titanic) and Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale; The Blind Assassin)
Top business executives from Siemens, Phillips, UL, Future Friendly, and SunEdison
Top labor leaders, including the President of the AFL-CIO and Secretary of the SEIU.
Progressive activists, including Jesse Jackson, Lydia Camarillo, and Hilary Shelton
Climate policy gurus like Joe Romm, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, and Rafael Fantauzzi
Spiritual leaders, including Rev. Theresa Thames, Rev. Richard Cizik, and Rabbi Warren Stone
Athletes like Dhani Jones, Aaron Peirsol, and Billy Demong
Environmentalists like Bobby Kennedy and Phillipe Cousteau<\/p>\n
\nartists in the nation, including Sting, John Legend, The Roots, Willie
\nColon, Passion Pit, Bob Weir, Jimmy Cliff, Joss Stone, Booker T, The
\nHonor Society, Mavis Staples …<\/p>\n
\nand New York: “We won’t appeal anymore to the conscience of
\ninstitutions because institutions have no conscience. If we want them
\nto do what is right, we must make them do what is right. We will use
\nproxy fights, lawsuits, demonstration, research, boycotts, and-above
\nall-ballots … If we let this become just a fad, it will be our last
\nfad.”<\/p>\n
\nenvironment” a voting issue in the 1970 elections. One of the seven
\nCongressmen we defeated that fall was George Fallon, chairman of the
\nHouse Public Works Committee: the “pork” committee. THAT got their
\nattention. If Chairman Fallon was vulnerable, everyone in politics was
\nvulnerable.<\/p>\n
\npowerful vested interests in the land, Congress passed the Clean Air
\nAct, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and a half-dozen
\nother far-reaching laws that have utterly transformed the way America
\ndoes business.<\/p>\n
\nsafe, clean, decentralized, renewable energy sources like solar, wind,
\nand geothermal. The world, led by America, must abandon the appallingly
\ninefficient way it uses energy and swiftly embrace the most efficient
\nnew housing, transport, and industrial processes that exist. We
\nAmericans must slash our politically risky and economically
\ncatastrophic dependence on the oil wealth of nations that don’t like us
\nvery much.<\/p>\n
\nestablish a price on carbon that reflects the costs of climate
\ndisruption, blowing the tops off mountains, and acidifying the world’s
\noceans. We must place a firm cap with no loopholes on the amount
\nof carbon fuels we consume each year and ratchet that cap down at a
\nprescribed rate every year in the future until we hit something very
\nclose to zero.<\/p>\n
\njunk science, climate-denying interest groups are rich, powerful, and
\nruthless. But sooner or later they will lose.<\/p>\n
\nMicrosoft, Apple, and Dell. They will lose for the same reason that Ma
\nBell—the most powerful monopoly in the world—lost to cellular upstarts
\nand internet-telephony. They lost because their thinking was anchored
\nin the past instead of envisioning the future<\/p>\n
\nwill lose because 19th century answers won’t solve 21st century
\nproblems.<\/p>\n
\nCome to the Mall between the Capitol Building and the White House on
\nSunday, April 25. Bring your spouse, your parents, your kids, your
\nneighbors, your friends, your co-workers, your congregation, your
\nbowling league. Vote with your bodies on April 25 at the largest
\nclimate rally ever.<\/p>\n