8 Years to Zero

We stand on the brink of the collapse of civilization. The United States is hurtling into an era of crisis as deep as the Great Depression and World War II.

Over five years ago, we founded The Climate Mobilization. We started TCM because we saw a dangerous vacuum in our political system, the environmental movement, and our society as a

In the U.S., Mississippi and Tennessee are experiencing devastating flooding after receiving 400% of normal rainfall. The Arctic shattered record high temperatures, reaching 70 degrees fahrenheit this past week. This

The list of US cities declaring climate emergency grew by two this past week — congratulations to U.S. cities Flagstaff, Arizona and Asheville, NC — both the first cities in

Interestingly, while 2019 was the Year of #ClimateEmergency, many in media and the political world are very very afraid of this word and still using the term “#ClimateChange.

While we continue to mourn the communities suffering from Hurricane Dorian, wildfires in the Amazon or California, other communities are also facing a slowly-grinding destabilization due not only to the climate crisis but also government bureaucracy. Often these communities remain hidden, even within their own states and outside the spotlight associated with massive climate disasters.  

More than 1000 governments in 19 countries across the world have declared a climate emergency, including New York City, the largest city in the U.S. to do so. Malibu California is among the most recent locations to declare.

The CNN Town hall was groundbreaking in the sense that the network committed seven hours to focus on the existential threat of our generation – climate emergency. This is the type of coverage needed to address this existential crisis that candidate after candidate acknowledged last night. It cannot be a one and done thing.

Our thoughts are with the people of the Bahamas and we urge the public and our nation to support recovery efforts there. The devastation of Hurricane Dorian is a clear warning that the climate emergency is not coming; it’s already here and already killing people.

In the face of the deepening climate emergency, strong policy that leads the target for legislative potential and helps move the goalposts is vital. Reposting a recent Resilience article from TCM allies Larry Edwards and Stan Cox on “Cap and Adapt” — a national policy proposal towards the managed decline of fossil fuels called for in the Congressional Climate Emergency Declaration.