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Elizabeth May on the IPCC Report on Climate Change
If you care about our world, and haven’t watched this extraordinary 10 minute speech by @Elizabeth May you need to do so right now…
“The good news is we still have a chance to save ourselves. To save the lives of our children, what would we not do? We as homo sapiens, the clever species, the smart ones, have at most 10 to 12 years to ensure that we stop greenhouse gas emissions. We are stepping up. We are going to rescue everybody…” — Elizabeth May | Youtube | Facebook
Climate change jobs, volunteering, more: GoodWork.ca/be-the-change
Read more, take action:
- Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040 (NY Times)
- U.N. climate report shows civilization is at stake if we don’t act now (Grist.org)
- Don’t despair: the climate fight is only over if you think it is (The Guardian)
- Elizabeth May at Emergency Debate on Climate Change (video and text) | Youtube | Facebook
- Trudeau Government Urged To Step Up Climate Action In Emergency Debate (Huffington Post)
- What the UN panel’s special climate change report means for Canada (National Observer)
- MPs debate climate change after UN report warns of dire consequences (CBC)
- Elizabeth May makes an impassioned speech during emergency climate change debate (facebook)
- Climate Change Action — green jobs, volunteering, participation (GoodWork.ca)
Are corporations starving the world?
“Unless it changes, capitalism will starve humanity by 2050. Large corporations are engaging in increasingly exploitative behaviour by obscuring the link between endless economic growth and worsening environmental destruction.” — Forbes magazine (read more)
So what needs to change? What can you and I do to help? How can we get to work for a healthy world? What you can do | Green jobs
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