In the Name of Earth, Embrace the Fierce Urgency of Now

We need to be impatient with plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. We need to see CO2 numbers coming down globally by 2020! We need to end them by 2030. Mother Earth is setting the schedule now. Our households, businesses, schools, and politics have been too slow. Long range schedules to reduce CO2 are just blather. “Now” has become the important word. We cannot agree with plans that do not work on Mother Earth’s schedule. That’s why I’m encouraged to read on The Climate Mobilization website about two motions being introduced to the Los Angeles City Council labeled with the words, “Fierce Urgency of Now:”

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