The Politics of Climate Change: Green New Deal And Other Madness

I am just astounded that most of the people I know IRL have been taken by this girl and are all over FB and tweeter praising her "wisdom" and "passion" and whatnot. Nobody wonders where does a 17 yo get the money to do the trips she does and the access to the places she has, and for what reason? Nobody wonders where does a 17 yo get the money to do the trips she does and the access to the places she has, and for what reason?The man-made global warming religion has found their own Jesus, and they are very willing to crucify her too. They will discard her like old shoes as soon as her usefulness to them runs out.

C.a. Posted a tweet that "She and her parents are AntiFA. And work for Al Gore's Swedish climate hoax outlet called "we don't have time" which is all bank-rolled by the Soros Foundation!


A Nobel for Sweden's Greta Thunberg? A tough decision for prize committee
FILE PHOTO: Swedish activist Greta Thunberg participates in a youth climate change protest in front of the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., August 30, 2019. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg's shaming of world leaders and air travelers over climate change has won her millions of admirers and attracted many new followers to her cause.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg wins 'alternative Nobel Prize'
16-year-old Swedish Climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 23, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was named on Wednesday as one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, known as Sweden's alternative Nobel Prize.
 
C.a. Posted a tweet that "She and her parents are AntiFA. And work for Al Gore's Swedish climate hoax outlet called "we don't have time" which is all bank-rolled by the Soros Foundation!

Climate Change: We Don’t Have Time

Ingmar Rentzhog is a Swedish entrepreneur who founded and serves as the CEO of We Don’t Have Time, a tech start-up aiming to become the world’s largest social media platform for the climate crisis. He also is a Climate Reality leader trained by US former Vice President Al Gore. Here Ingmar tells all about his company, its mission and accomplishments in its endeavour to raise awareness of and combat the ways in which we contribute to climate change before we run out of time.

31,000 Scientists Declare Al Gore a LIAR: ‘Climate Change a Complete Hoax and Scam’
November 16, 2017 - Over 31,000 scientists disagree with Al Gore, and have come forward and stated that ‘catastrophic man-made global warming’ is a complete hoax and science lie.

There are the more than 31,000 American scientists (to date) who have signed a petition challenging the climate change narrative and 9,029 of them hold PhDs in their respective fields.

Many of those scientists who signed the petition were encouraged to speak out in favor of the truth after retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist John L. Casey revealed that solar cycles are largely responsible for warming periods on Earth – not human activity.
 
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Yeah Greta's direct handler/speech writer is supposedly someone named Luisa Marie-Neubauer a member of "One Foundation" alegedly sponsored by Bono from U2, Bil "Microsoft" Gates and ours dearly Uncle Omnipresent G. Soros. Also Greta's father seems to be related to one chemists Svante August Whatever Arrhenius who reportedly was first to launch GW gibberish around the world...🥁
 
Pathological people/groups roughlesly and grotesquely exploiting children and youth by glorifying/sanctifying/programming them and the public for their own unconscionable agenda. Movements of young people with their immature minds are used for a nefarious agenda. Then combine that with Political Ponerology and it looks very bad. Seems to me that this is just the beginning of something rather tragic, but this time on a global scale and far to many go along with it.
I have to remember she is not as young as she looks, and somewhere she has been well coached with a script and the memory to recite the AGW talking point shtick.
Maybe Greta Thunberg could write her own version of "Mein Kampf", she almost looks like Hitler spirited...

I think a lot of people are feeling that, not only is there something wrong with the utilization of children and youth to advance these agendas, but also that there is something off, or strange about their behavior. And in particular, Greta Thunberg.

I happened to be reading the Cassiopaea Experiment Transcripts Vol 2 last night, and was surprised reading the session from October 21, 1995. In it was described details of the Roswell crash.

[...]

Q: (L) Then that would mean that there were 17 inside... Of these 21 beings, how many were greys, the standard grey lizzie-probe type being?

A: Most.

Q: (L) Were there other kinds of beings in there?

A: Human.

Q: (L) There was one human in there also?

A: 5.

Q: (L) There were 5 humans inside? So we have... (LM) Why? (L) Why were those humans in the craft?

A: Retrieval and study specimens, two big foot types.

Q: (L) Does that mean that the humans that they had in there were retrieval and study specimens, or otherwise known as abductees?

A: Deceased.

Q: (L) Oh, they were dead humans. Wonderful. Did they abduct them dead? Or did they abduct them alive?

A: No.

Q: (L) Did they abduct them alive and then kill them?

A: No.

Q: (L) Were they dead as a result of the crash?

A: No.

Q: (L) Well, then, what's the story here, I mean, what other choices do I have?

A: Retrieved.

Q: (L) Ohh, these were beings that had been retrieved at death and remolecularized? Is that what you are referring to, what we discussed before?

A: 3rd density.

Q: (L) Were they remolecularized in third density? Is that what you are saying?

A: Retrieved in 3rd density.

Q: (L) OK, tell me once again what it means for a being, a human to be retrieved.

A: Picked up after expiration.

Q: (L) OK, so they picked up dead bodies, is that it?

A: Yes.

Q: (LM) Why? (L) To study them. OK, did they plan to reanimate these corpses?

A: Open.

Q: (L) Do they ever pick up dead bodies, you know, right after, and reanimate them?

A: Yes.


Q: (L) When they pick them up and reanimate them, do they reanimate them with the souls that left them? Do they like, catch the soul and put it back in?

A: No.


Q: (L) When they reanimate them, do they reanimate them with an alien soul?

A: Multiple possibilities.

Q: (L) If they reanimate them, is it possible to reanimate them with no soul?

A: Yes.


Q: (L) OK, when they reanimate them with no soul, do they have kind of like a zombie-like situation?

A: No.


Q: (L) Well, could you give us a little more information on this particular aspect? If they reanimate them with no soul, what is the animating force or energy?

A: Indistinguishable from other humans.

Q: (L) They're indistinguishable from other humans. (LM) How is that possible?

A: Technology makes all things possible!!!

Q: (L) Of course, you are talking about 4th density technology?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Now, a reanimated corpse that has been animated by infusion of some form of an energy pattern... (SV) Is it 'chi' energy, maybe? (L) What if the reanimated corpse dies again, I mean, you have got to understand here, that we perceive the soul as being the animating force of the physical body, and when the soul is gone, the body dies. Is that correct?

A: You are making assumptions based on limited data.

Q: (L) OK, well, will you expand my database by telling me how a corpse can be reanimated if not done by a... if not with a soul?

A: Complex technology, using electronic bio-generation frequency matching, combined with extremely high frequency radio beacon transmitters for tracking and control of all functions, including thought pattern mimic and emotional frequency vibrational rate modulation!!!!

Q: (L) If they're doing this, does it make the physical body...

A: Yes.

Q: (L) The blood, the heartbeat and everything...

A: All functions, including cellular, duplicated.


Q: (SV) What about the aura? (L) Would a being such as this still have an aura?

A: Projected.

Q: (L) OK, that would be projected, along with all of the frequencies, and everything else. Now... (SV) Are there a lot of dead people walking around?

A: This is method used for subjects discussed in "Matrix Material" instead of "Robots", as suggested.

Q: (L) Is there any way that a normal person would be able to identify such a being?

A: No.

Q: (L) Approximately how many of this type of being are walking around on our planet, acting like normal people?

A: 2,000,000.

Q: (L) Approximately 2 million?
**(this remember was 1995)

A: Yes.


Q: (L) OK...

[...]

Q: (L) OK, is one of the - I mean, I'm clicking [through mental data files] right now - one of the characteristics I think, that these kind of individuals might have, since they have this projected emotional frequency, would be a repeating emotional pattern, that they just simply, in spite of seeming intelligence, do not seem to learn from anything; that it just repeats over and over again, is that a clue?

A: Yes.


[...]

... Do these beings know what they are?

A: Not conscious beings!

Q: (L) They're not conscious beings, so, they just react to you as though they are being remote controlled. (SV) So, if you told one of them what they were...

A: Are being remote controlled.

[...]

Just some food for thought.

It was also mentioned that this happens with hospital visits. People expire, and then go through this same process.
 
Greta Thurnbergs Mother wrote a book about Greta's mental illness.

Greta Thunberg’s Mother Wrote a Book About Greta’s Mental Illness
September 24, 2019 - Earlier today we wrote an article about the Thunberg family’s rich history in Swedish acting. Now someone has found that Thunbergs own mother wrote a book about Greta having Aspergers and being depressed. So the left is basically taking advantage of a mentally Ill child.

Greta is eleven years old and has gone two months without eating. Her heart rate and blood pressure show clear signs of starvation. She has stopped speaking to anyone but her parents and younger sister, Beata.

“After years of depression, eating disorders, and anxiety attacks, she finally receives a medical diagnosis: Asperger’s syndrome, high-functioning autism, and OCD. She also suffers from selective mutism—which explains why she sometimes can’t speak to anyone outside her closest family. When she wants to tell a climate researcher that she plans a school strike on behalf of the environment, she speaks through her father.”

The book Scenes from the Heart(“Scener från Hjärtat,” 2018) recounts these medical difficulties and the events that led to Greta Thunberg’s now-famous “school strike for climate,” in which hundreds of thousands of children have refused to attend school to protest about government inaction over climate change. Greta herself strikes every Friday and spent three weeks sitting outside the Swedish Parliament at the beginning of the school year. Written by her family—mother, father, Beata and Greta—the story is told in the voice of Greta’s mother, the opera soprano Malena Ernman, who was a celebrity in Europe long before her daughter’s fame. Although the book is only available in Swedish for the time being, it is already being translated into numerous languages—a development that reflects the global fascination with Thunberg’s campaign.

We are offered a story of “a family in crisis and a planet in crisis”—two phenomena that are presented as inextricably linked. The book posits that oppression of women, minorities, and people with disabilities stem from the same overarching root problem as climate change: an unsustainable way of life. The family’s private crisis and the global climate crisis, the authors argue, are simply symptoms of the same systemic disorder.

Greta is not alone in her mental suffering, according to the book. Her sister Beata, who was 12 when the book was written, lives with ADHD, Asperger’s syndrome, and OCD. She is prone to sudden outbursts of anger, during which she screams obscenities at her mother. What would normally be a 10-minute walk to dance class takes almost an hour because Beata insists on walking with her left foot in front, refuses to step on certain parts of the sidewalk, and demands that her mother walk the same way. She also insists that her mother wait outside during class—she isn’t allowed to move, even to go to the bathroom. The child still ends up weeping in her mother’s arms.
Like many parents of children with similar diagnoses, Greta and Beata’s parents fight hard for their daughters to receive the right care and assistance in school. When Greta refuses to eat they do everything they can to save her from starving herself. Her father begs their doctor to save Beata from whatever it is that plagues her. To read the story is heart-wrenching, many times over.

And yet as someone who does not share the family’s political views—that the girls’ problems are inextricable from the climate crisis, and that the cure is to “change the system”—I wonder whether the world needs to know the intimate details about the lives of these two anguished young girls.

It has been less than a year since Scenes from the Heart was published and, during that time, Greta has become a global celebrity. This week, she was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time Magazine. She has briefly met the Pope, who encouraged her to “Keep doing what you’re doing.” She has received numerous awards, including, most recently, the German Golden Camera award. She has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She has been featured and interviewed in most of the world’s leading media. She has appeared on a panel with the UN Secretary General António Guterres, addressed the European Parliament, and lunched with theFinancial Times.

“Is Greta the new Che Guevara?” asked the German TV-anchor Maybrit Ilner recently during a TV debate about the striking school children.

In defense of the excellent Ms. Ilner, she probably meant to refer to Che Guevara as a global political symbol. But the question is telling: Greta is turning into a revolutionary icon.

Given what we know about Greta’s problems and challenges, is this an appropriate adult response to Greta’s school strike?

Greta Thunberg and Her Family's History as Actors
Greta Thunberg and Her Family’s History as Actors

Scenes from the Heart - Wikipedia

Cover of book Scener ur hjärtat by Malena Ernman & Greta Thunberg
Cover of "Scener ur hjärtat"
 

September 25, 2019
A clear majority of Dutch farmers are doubtful about whether or not their business can continue and four in 10 say they are prepared to talk about closing down, if there is a good compensation package, broadcaster NOS said on Wednesday.

The figures come from a survey of 6,000 readers of farming magazine Nieuwe Oogst, which looks at the impact of the recent court ruling on nitrogen emissions on the agricultural sector.

Thousands of construction and other projects are currently in doubt after a supreme court ruling said current methods to deal with nitrogen emissions such as ammonia and nitrous oxide do not go far enough. A government committee is due to publish its recommendations for dealing with the nitrogen crisis later on Thursday.

The survey found pig farmers in particular are keen to talk about quitting. Some 7% of those taking part in the survey said they would quit now if the compensation package was good, and 66% said they would be willing to consider doing so.

Earlier this month, the Liberal democratic party D66 said the Netherlands can solve its nitrogen crisis by halving the size of the nation’s livestock herd.

By reducing the number of chickens on Dutch poultry farms by 50 million and cutting pig numbers by six million, nitrogen emissions would plummet and residential construction can resume again, the party says

Read more at DutchNews.nl: :pinocchio:

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Cut speed limits and reduce livestock farming to solve nitrogen crisis: report
September 26, 2019
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The Netherlands needs to take ‘drastic measures’ by reducing speed limits and livestock farming to cut nitrogen emissions and protect vulnerable parts of the countryside, according to a government commission set up to look at the crisis.

A Council of State ruling earlier this year has led to an estimated 18,000 infrastructure and other projects being stalled because they would increase the volume of damaging nitrogen emissions – mainly in the form of nitrous oxide or ammonia.

The current way of calculating emissions does conflict with the law, committee chairman Johan Remkes said at the presentation on Wednesday. He suggested that the speed limit on many motorways and provincial roads should be reduced immediately to cut traffic pollution, and that officials do more to tackle congestion. But the primary target, he said, is livestock farming because pig and poultry farms account for 46% of the nitrogen in rural areas.

Provincial governments, he said, should look at which farms could be eligible to be bought out and closed. In addition, farms should be quicker to introduce technological innovations to reduce manure emissions, he said.

Criticism Environmental groups described the former minister’s plans as ‘unambitious’ but most political parties accepted the recommendations with praise.

Green campaigner Johan Vollenbroek, who took the original case to the Council of State, told broadcaster NOS much more could be done. Reducing air traffic, banning mega pig farms, closing coal-fired power stations and stopping using biomass to produce electricity would all contribute to cutting back emissions, he said.

Latest from the food Nazi's in the UK and abroad.



 
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My deepest concern - is if there might be a hidden agenda behind these growing number of protests? I don't mean, in a sense, that I'm disputing legitimate claims, my concern is the side-stepping of legal procedures, already available to file a dispute or grievance verses seeking out an alternative of "protesting in the streets" and reverting back - socially - to "a tribal slave mentality" when Civil and Legal Rights were lacking for the common people? Many brave and devoted Souls fought and died for those alienable Rights and we easily toss them away. We no longer "Respect" the generations before us.

In most incidents, what originally started out as a peaceful demonstration - have been hijacked by outside interference and turned into violent confrontations. As the violence escalates, Police and security forces use harsher measures to confront and contain the crowd. A peaceful demonstration has now turned into a fighting match between protester and Police? The cause for the demonstration has been invalidated, by fighting with a third party (the Police). Yet, the Protests go on.
We're seeing the same way angelburst29. It's rather scary. I must think, we are seeing this particular civilization in decline, the beginning of the end this time around. Similar to how all great civilizations have disintegrated then disappeared, human history repeating over and over. So many things are now reversed in the human mind like the C's have said, its "Alice through the Looking Glass". The dark side, spinning its web with determination to control everything necessitates destroying basic human values and common sense. It's painful to see, so many unaware, ignorant people spilling out their life force for lies, there is so much delusion. We're probably at the end of a cycle.

The infiltration of criminal minds in the US government are over throwing the rule of law and order which is alarming to see. At this time, in many cases, the police are given orders to not enforce the laws which creates more chaos and misery (that may reverse at some point). The dumming down of the herd has been successful. I don't think this is some major feat considering the basic nature of people generally, who are naive, easy to fool and follow the leader. Thats why we need good leaders which we don't have mostly. The Constitution and Bill of Rights, which are the foundations of freedom, aren't valued or even known. They want to throw out the Electoral College! What is known about socialist, fascist, hideously oppressive regimes, nothing it seems. There is such strong conviction not to have Trump elected again, we'll have to see how it all plays out.

If we choose our lives, and I think we do, then I've had a fairly good one thats allowed me to grow in many ways and do a lot of things.. The opportunity to live such a life, under "normal" circumstances may be coming to an end. The opportunity is now passing. I hope it can be put off for another 100 years though!

I wonder what makes us different? Those here who question, value Truth and Knowledge and see all the lies. We're older souls likely, on a more defined path we follow with conviction. I'm in a state of acceptance to what is happening. I don't see a way for me to change the big, over all picture so I hold fast to the center, upholding my values which will help in small ways for the people around me as well as for myself. It's all I can do.

It's very hard for me, impossible really, to imagine, the sort of mind/spirit that wants total control of all people and life. It's the eternal, cosmic battle at this level i guess, STS vs. STO. From a 3D Nature/planet perspective, STS is the death principle and STO the life principle. The endless circle, life followed by death then rebirth. I have a certain concept about this thats hard to put in words. In another way, everyone is playing their part perfectly, the drama is unfolding. IT IS a school, I hardily agree, after all we'd do better if we actually knew better but we don't so we fall again and again until we figure it out.

Its hard to see the world and our country falling apart. There are some good warriors in our midst however, so there is hope, maybe. Maybe mitigating influences will come into play. Its ironic how the ptb rush head on into destruction while they try to gain all for themselves.
 
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Anybody else see this one..? (The idea that we're in a C02 Drought?)


Then I found this observation quite startling:

-The elites are actually more often Democrat than not; Tim notes that he believes the media narrative shift from focusing on class divisions based on wealth distribution was a reaction to the Occupy Wall Street movement. The shift of focus to today's nonsensical race and gender divide was a deliberate move to keep the population from focusing on issues which cut too close to home (for the super-wealthy).

Just try having that conversation now, though. This Greta thing is making people nuts. The CBC radio in my area is non-stop bullshit about carbon emissions with people getting really hot under the collar regarding so-called "Climate Denial". It's getting a tad scary.
 
Vanessa Abittan, who won Master Chef on Saturday, is married to a man convicted in France for ‘swindle of century’
25 September 2019, 10:28 pm
When Vanessa Abittan, a mother of six from Ra’anana, won Israel’s Master Chef reality TV show on Saturday night, few of the 700,000 viewers knew that she had a secret.

The impeccably groomed 43-year-old, with French-accented Hebrew and an adorably ditzy personality, told viewers that she worked part-time for her husband’s real estate business, writing French-language brochures for their largely French-speaking clientele. She claimed to have immigrated to Israel from France over a decade ago out of love for the country and a desire to “be Israeli.”

But when a French-speaking reporter for Channel 13 news, Emmanuelle Elbaz-Phelps, tuned into the Master Chef finale on Saturday night, she was shocked to discover the identity of Vanessa’s husband.

There in the audience, cheering her on, was Eddie Abittan, a man convicted in absentia by France for two separate instances of a fraudulent scheme that together netted over $400 million. The two schemes were part of the scam known as carbon-VAT fraud, carried out in 2008 and 2009, which has been dubbed “the swindle of the century” in France.

Elbaz-Phelps immediately recognized Abittan as she had prepared a report about the scam two years ago.
The carbon tax scheme consists of about 15 related cases. Abittan was convicted in two of those, according to a report in the French investigative magazine Mediapart. He was convicted in one, nicknamed Belleville (in which $285 million was stolen from the French government), on July 7, 2016, and in a second case, known as Crepsucule (in which $155 million was stolen from the French government), on September 13, 2017. Each time, he was sentenced to six years in prison.

Abittan was tried in absentia as he never showed up for his trials and was believed by French prosecutors to be in Israel. Two Interpol arrest warrants were reportedly issued for him.

Abittan’s appearance on Israeli TV shocked many French journalists who reported the story widely on Wednesday.

“Almost none of the money from the carbon VAT was found,Fabrice Arfi, a reporter for Mediapart, told Channel 13, “so it’s surprising to see enjoying life.”

A recent profile of Vanessa Abittan in Israel Hayom described the couple’s house in Ra’anana as “resembling a home in a prestigious French magazine: immaculate, with great attention to detail and inviting designer sofas as well as candles lit in the middle of the day and emitting a pleasant fragrance.”

According to one of the French courts that convicted him, Abittan “played a major role at the top of this fraud, participating in the establishment of shell companies in Hong Kong, and benefited substantially from the proceeds.”

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The failure of Israeli police and prosecutors to tackle the minority of French speakers who carry out white-collar crime has led to a widespread crime problem in some French-speaking communities.

A lawyer for Eddie Abittan told Mediapart on Tuesday that his client’s appearance on the Master Chef show was “possibly imprudent, but in no way a provocation. Of course, Eddie Abittan is aware of his conviction in France. For him, Israel is a bit like an open prison, in which he is locked. He cannot travel. People on arrest warrants like him do not necessarily feel free.”

His wife, Vanessa, has become such a popular television personality that she was hired as a spokesmodel by a local fashion brand, Crazy Line.
 

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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, but then they happen much faster than you thought they could.
The destructive impacts of the climate crisis are now following the trajectory of that economics maxim as horrors long predicted by scientists are becoming realities.

More destructive Category 5 hurricanes are developing, monster fires ignite and burn on every continent but Antarctica, ice is melting in large amounts there and in Greenland, and accelerating sea-level rise now threatens low-lying cities and island nations.

Tropical diseases are spreading to higher latitudes. Cities face drinking-water shortages. The ocean is becoming warmer and more acidic, destroying coral reefs and endangering fish populations that provide vital protein consumed by about a billion people.

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Worsening droughts and biblical deluges are reducing food production and displacing millions of people. Record-high temperatures threaten to render areas of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, North Africa and South Asia uninhabitable. Growing migrations of climate refugees are destabilizing nations. A sixth great extinction could extinguish half the species on earth.

[Al Gore answered questions about this essay on Twitter.]

Finally people are recognizing that the climate is changing, and the consequences are worsening much faster than most thought was possible. A record 72 percent of Americans polled say that the weather is growing more extreme. And yet every day we still emit more than 140 million tons of global warming pollution worldwide into the atmosphere, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I often echo the point made by the climate scientist James Hansen: The accumulation of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases — some of which will envelop the planet for hundreds and possibly thousands of years — is now trapping as much extra energy daily as 500,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs would release every 24 hours.

This is the crisis we face.

Now we need to ask ourselves: Are we really helpless and unwilling to respond to the gravest threat faced by civilization? Is it time, as some have begun to counsel, to despair, surrender and focus on “adapting” to the progressive loss of the conditions that have supported the flourishing of humanity? Are we really moral cowards, easily manipulated into lethargic complacency by the huge continuing effort to deceive us into ignoring what we see with our own eyes?

More damage and losses are inevitable, no matter what we do, because carbon dioxide remains for so long in the atmosphere. So we will have to do our best to adapt to unwelcome changes. But we still retain the ability to avoid truly catastrophic, civilization-ending consequences if we act quickly.

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This is our generation’s life-or-death challenge. It is Thermopylae, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Lexington and Concord, Dunkirk, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of the Bulge, Midway and Sept. 11. At moments of such crisis, the United States and the world have to be mobilized, and before we can be mobilized, we have to be inspired to believe the battle can be won. Is it really too much to ask now that politicians summon the courage to do what most all of them already know is necessary?

We have the technology we need. That economic maxim about slow-fast phenomena, first articulated by the M.I.T. economist Rudiger Dornbusch and known as Dornbusch’s Law, also explains the tsunami of technological and economic change that has given us tools to sharply reduce global warming pollution much faster than we thought was possible only a short time ago. For example, according to the research group Bloomberg New Energy Finance, as recently as 2014 — a year before the Paris climate agreement was reached — electricity from solar and wind was cheaper than new coal and gas plants in probably 1 percent of the world. Today, only five years later, solar and wind provide the cheapest sources of new electricity in two-thirds of the world. Within five more years, these sources are expected to provide the cheapest new electricity in the entire world. And in 10 years, solar and wind electricity will be cheaper nearly everywhere than the electricity that existing fossil fuel plants will be able to provide.
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This transition is already unfolding in the largest economies. Consider the progress made by the world’s top four emitters of greenhouse gases. Last year, solar and wind represented 88 percent of the new electricity capacity installed in the 28 nations of the European Union, 65 percent in India, 53 percent in China and 49 percent in the United States.

This year, several American utilities have announced plans to close existing natural gas and coal generating plants — some with decades of useful life remaining — to replace their output with cheaper electricity from wind and solar farms connected to ever-cheaper battery storage. As the chief executive of the Northern Indiana Public Service Company said recently, “The surprise was how dramatically the renewables and storage proposals beat natural gas.” He added, “I couldn’t have predicted this five years ago.”

Today, the fastest-growing occupation in the United States is solar installer, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and it has exceeded average job growth sixfold in the last five years. The second-fastest growing job: wind turbine service technician.

In Australia, a high-tech entrepreneur, Mike Cannon-Brookes, is reportedly planning to sell renewable electricity generated in the Northern Territories to South Asian cities over a long-distance undersea cable. Globally, close to 200 of the world’s largest companies have announced commitments to use 100 percent renewable energy, and several have already reached that goal. A growing number of cities, states and provinces have pledged to do the same.

The number of electric vehicles on the road has increased by 450 percent in the past four years, and several automobile manufacturers are shifting research and development spending away from internal combustion vehicles, because the cost-reduction curve for E.V.s is expected to soon drop the cost of the vehicle well below comparable gasoline and diesel models’. Over half of all buses in the world will be electric within the next five years, a majority in China, according to some market experts. At least 16 nations have set targets to phase out internal combustion engine vehicles.

More broadly, the evidence now indicates that we are in the early stages of a sustainability revolution that will achieve the magnitude of the Industrial Revolution and the speed of the digital revolution, made possible by new digital tools. To pick one example, Google has reduced the amount of electricity required to cool its enormous server farms by 40 percent using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence. No new hardware was required. Sustainable alternatives to existing methods of industrial production are being pursued by more and more companies.

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A farmer-led regenerative agriculture revolution that is also underway avoids plowing and focuses on building soil health by sequestering carbon dioxide in the ground, making the land more fertile. The farmers are using rotational grazing and planting trees and diverse cover crops to enrich soil and protect against erosion.

And so far, the best available technology for pulling carbon dioxide from the air is something called a tree. That’s why many nations are starting ambitious tree planting efforts. Ethiopia recently reported planting 353 million trees in 12 hours, nearly double the goal of 200 million. Scientists calculate that we have enough available land worldwide to plant between one trillion and one and a half trillion trees. To protect our vast but dwindling forests, new satellites and digital tools can now monitor deforestation virtually tree by tree, so corporations will know if the products they buy were grown on razed or burned forestland.

Yet for all this promise, here is another hard truth: All of these efforts together will not be enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently without significant policy changes. And right now, we don’t have the right policies because the wrong policymakers are in charge. We need to end the mammoth taxpayer-funded subsidies that encourage the continued burning of fossil fuels. We need to place a direct or indirect price on carbon pollution to encourage the use of cheaper, sustainable alternatives that are already out there. New laws and regulations may be needed as well to encourage innovation and force more rapid reductions in emissions.

The political reconfiguration we have desperately needed has been excruciatingly slow in coming, but we now seem to be at an inflection point, when political change begins to unroll more rapidly than we thought was possible. It’s Dornbusch’s Law, brought to politics.

The people, in their true function as the sovereign power, are quickly understanding the truth of this crisis, and they are the ones who must act, especially because the president is not on speaking terms with the truth and seems well beyond the reach of reason.

This will require a ferocious attack on the complacency, complicity, duplicity and mendacity of those in Congress who have paid for their careers by surrendering their votes and judgment to powerful special interests that are sacrificing the planet for their greed. To address the climate crisis, we must address the democracy crisis so that the people themselves can reclaim control of their destiny.

As has often been the case in successful political revolutions, young people have taken up the gauntlet with inspiring passion. Greta Thunberg has stirred millions as the school strike movement she began in Sweden spreads to many countries. The Sunrise Movement, the Extinction Rebellion, Zero Hour and other youth-led movements are gathering momentum daily. On Friday, hundreds of thousands of people around the world were marching and gathering to call for action on climate change. Employees of many corporations are aggressively demanding that their employers take action to help save the climate balance.

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The “blue wave” that gave Democrats control of the House in last year’s midterm elections was fueled in part by concern about climate. The Green New Deal, introduced by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, ties solutions to the climate crisis to environmental justice and a “just transition” that will create millions of well-paying jobs. This effort has won support from many Americans, just as the nuclear freeze movement of the early 1980s attracted wide approval and helped pave the way for an arms control agreement between President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader of the Soviet Union.

Virtually all of this year’s Democratic presidential candidates are making the climate a top priority. Many have released impressive and detailed plans that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. A CNN poll in April found that the climate crisis was the No. 1 concern of Democrats who are registered to vote. Another recent poll showed that a record 79 percent of American adults and 86 percent of teenagers believe, finally, that the climate crisis is caused by human activity, and, even more significantly, so do 60 percent of Republicans. Americans’ disapproval of President Trump’s approach to the climate was higher, at 67 percent, than on any other issue.
College Republicans at dozens of schools have called on the Republican National Committee to support a carbon tax and have loudly warned the party that it will forfeit support from younger voters if it does not. Another recent poll shows that 67 percent of millennial Republican voters say their party needs to do more on climate.

Next year’s election is the crucial test of the nation’s commitment to addressing this crisis, and it is worth remembering that on the day after the 2020 election, the terms of the Paris climate accord will permit the United States to withdraw from it. We cannot allow that to happen. Political will is a renewable resource and must be summoned in this fight. The American people are sovereign, and I am hopeful that they are preparing to issue a command on the climate to those who purport to represent them: “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.”

Al Gore shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for his work to slow global warming. He is the author of, among other books, “An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming.”

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Climate change activists spray red paint at UK Treasury from fire engine
Extinction Rebellion protestors demonstrate outside the Treasury building in London, Britain October 3, 2019.  REUTERS/Simon Dawson

Climate change activists used a fire engine to spray red paint at the facade of the British finance ministry on Thursday in an attempt to draw attention to what they said was the government's failure to avert a looming climate cataclysm.

The activists drove up to the British Treasury in a fire engine and sprayed red paint through the hose onto the building, though at one point they lost control of the hose.

After the stunt, four activists stood atop the fire engine which had a banner saying “Stop funding climate death.” The steps of the Treasury were soaked in red paint.

Extinction Rebellion said its activists had sprayed 1,800 liters of fake blood at the Treasury. The activists also sprayed the slogan “Stop funding climate death” on the walls of the building.

“The Treasury has been frustrating efforts by other government departments to take action against climate change because it cares only about economic growth,” one of the activists, named Ben, told Reuters.

“It doesn’t see that eternal economic growth leads to climate death,” Ben said. “The red symbolizes the people dying now in the global south and also the people who are going to start dying from climate change all around the world if we do nothing.”

Police said they arrested four people on suspicion of criminal damage and that some roads had been closed. At the scene, police puzzled over what to do with the fire engine as the driver removed the keys.

The fire engine was purchased on eBay, the activists told Reuters.

Extinction Rebellion wants non-violent civil disobedience to force governments to cut carbon emissions and avert a climate crisis it says will bring starvation and social collapse.

The group disrupted London with 11 days of protests in April that it cast as the biggest act of civil disobedience in recent British history. Iconic locations were blocked, the Shell building defaced, trains stopped and Goldman Sachs targeted.

The British Treasury, which traces its history back to William the Conqueror, is located in a grand building between Buckingham Palace and the British parliament.

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