Letter: Take action for climate justice

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Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old Swedish student climate activist, has landed in New York after a two-week sail across the Atlantic. She is here to address the U.N. Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23 and to help lead the climate action strikes on Sept. 20. Greta and many student activists from around the world are saying, “We’re asking you to step up alongside us. There are many different plans underway in different parts of the world for adults to join together and step up and out of your comfort zone for our climate. Let’s all join together with our neighbors, co-workers, friends, family and go out on to the streets to make our voices heard and make this a turning point in our history.”

Recently, the Mountain Xpress detailed the challenge local government plans to “run their operations entirely with renewable energy by 2030” face in light of Duke Energy’s intentions to continue producing close to 50% of our electricity by burning fossil fuels [“Paths to Power: City, County Debut Results of Renewable Energy Planning,” Aug. 21].

Here in Asheville, Duke is putting the finishing touches of an $893 million power plant that will require fracked [natural] gas for at least a 25-year operating life. In their latest 15-year plan, Duke projects only 8% renewable energy capacity, yet wants to increase our rates to pay for fixing storm damage and leaking coal ash pits.

The worldwide strike on Friday, Sept. 20, will demand that our elected leaders stop business as usual and respond positively and immediately to the climate disruption crisis now upon us. Radical and expensive measures like a Green New Deal may be necessary, but “It’s pay me now, or pay me later,” and now will be cheaper and more effective!

In our region, both Greenville, S.C., and Raleigh are hosting student-organized rallies at noon. Locally, adults can support the students: No work, no purchasing anything (buy food in advance and no “Amazon” online purchasing) and join the Asheville Climate Justice rally at the Vance Monument at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20. For more info, link to Asheville Climate Justice Rally [avl.mx/6hv].

— Frank L. Fox
Asheville

 

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2 thoughts on “Letter: Take action for climate justice

    • C-Law

      Absolutely!

      It is just stunning to me how many people are falling for the NWO climate b.s.

      So, the plan is to use this climate change cult to break national sovereignty down even further and empower a large multinational centralized authority (the GD globalist bankers) and administered through their corporate and NGO thugs along with the UN.

      and the whole time, make it seem “hip” to do…using youthful dupes like Thunberg and Hogg, useful idiots as props and mouthpieces.

      When exactly did common sense die?

      There can be no compromise or coexistence with the fanatical marxist tyrannical mindset! It is an utterly destructive ideology and incompatible with human life and freedom.

      Better make sure your preps are in order for what’s coming…there will be no “safe space” to avoid what is going to drop.

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