There will be two Climate Strike Rallies held in Farmington on Friday, Sept. 20.
The first will be at the Gazebo in Meetinghouse Park across from the Courthouse. It will be from noon to 1 p.m. All are welcome – especially students! There will be speakers and music. Bring your signs. For more information on this rally, contact: 22hmcmillan@rangeleyschool.org.
The second rally will be held from 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. – in front of the Farmington Post Office. The timing of this event is for people who can’t come at noontime – especially children, teenagers, college students, and working folks – but anyone can come to it. At this event we will have people with climate related signs. We may have singing. For more information contact epliddy@yahoo.com.
These events are sponsored by a coalition of students from local schools, the Sustainable Campus Coalition of University of Maine at Farmington, the Franklin County Climate Crisis Coalition and Western Mountains Peace Workshop.
Feel free to come to both events and share this information with your family and friends.
Technically, fossil fuels are renewable as they weren’t always around but rather created by the decaying vegetation and animals of the past.
What a farce!
Especially students…more brain washing.
Zzzzzz,,,
What a zoo this will be.
Like maybe they can like get like AOC to like show up..
Zzzzzz,,,
While these kooks recruit other kooks, the rest of us will be busy making it so they can send their precious time protesting.
Well have a nice day.
I have logs to saw,,,
Zzzzzzz,,, Zzzzzz,, Zzzzz
This rally is not just a local event, it is part of the Global Climate Change Rally organized and attended by people who don’t believe in conspiracy theories but instead, believe in the climate science supported by decades of scientific studies based on voluminous amounts of supporting data. The rally comes ahead of the UN 2019 Climate Action Summit being held on Monday in New York City. Of course, Trump, a climate change denier while the leader of the country that is the 2nd biggest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, has announced he will not be attending the summit once again acting in the best interest of the fossil fuel industry above everything else.
@Old Maineiac
you don’t have to specify that you are old.
Reading the comments just provides another example of what has happened to the US. Ugh, typical, predictable responses. Pretty disappointing ………
How do they get to these events?
Well said Lindy!
Let the science be discussed, then acted upon. (Notice how our chief executive wants to decrease miles per gallon? oil companies can then make even more money to give out in bonuses)
Many students are being transported. Doesn’t this defeat the purpose?
@ Omar
Old Maneiac probably remembers back in the 80s when the world was supposed to end by the year 2000 due to global cooling. There’s only so many times Chicken Little predictions can pass by with no incident before people stop taking those making the predictions seriously. Now it’s the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t pass the Green New Deal or the Earth is going to be borderline uninhabitable by the 2040s. The timeline of these predictions go back decades even before the 80s, and yet civilization is still here and the Earth is still inhabitable. Climate science is fallible and is subject to being wrong quite often, seeing as meteorologists with all their newfangled tech still struggle to predict the weather from day to day.
The tides rise and ebb, catastrophe strikes, mankind rebuilds and adapts, then life goes on. It’s been that way since mankind became civilized and trying to get the climate to adapt to us isn’t going to amount to anything outside of bigger government and higher taxes. People standing around holding signs and holding rallies asking world governments to change natural cycles would be better spending their time cleaning up the environment themselves. It shouldn’t be only on Earth Day when the Fireball whiskey bottles get cleaned up.
But if people truly want to try to make the climate to adapt to us and find themselves frustrated that companies aren’t turning green as fast as they want them to, no one is stopping them from cutting themselves off from modern conveniences and living a zero-emissions hunter-gatherer lifestyle. That should offset some of the hot air blown off by politicians at the very least and save the rest of us at least 100 years of existence to try to coax the climate to be nicer to us.
Cheers,
Shamus
While I never had much faith in AOC (not because she uses “like” too many times in a sentence but because she, like all politicians in Washington, only know how it is to live in a place like Maine through books & glamping), she & her ideas lost my attention at cow farts.
Hopefully everyone involved walks to a he event and their signs have no wood,plastic or anything else that is harmful to the environment. They may actually better spend the time at work so the they can donate to people like AOC and the other three.
Unfortunately, due to years of climate change deniers stymying any efforts in Washington and state governments to convert to renewable energy and away from petroleum based products, there are few sign making materials on the market where petroleum did not play a role in some way. I think that demonstrates the whole point. This country is still subsidizing the fossil fuel industry at $26 billion a year with the current administration even taking actions to increase oil exploration and drilling and also to increase customer use of fossil fuels. At the same time, most of the rest of the world is moving away from fossil fuels. That brings up another point. This country is passing up huge business opportunities in light of the incredible market for renewable energy products that is spreading rapidly across the globe. Think about it….the whole world has to switch over to alternative energy! That’s zillions of customers! Yet, here we are with Trump taking us completely in the opposite direction.
Seriously — a “Climate Strike”. First of all God is in control of EVERYTHING — and that includes the weather or the climate as it is being referred to here — so give it up. Secondly, with the recent events of the tragic explosion at the LEAP building wouldn’t your time be better spent helping those families who lost their homes or preparing meals for the families of the firefighters still in the hospital OR providing meals for all of our first responders who put their uniforms on each day with the chance they may not make it home that night. Or here is a thought — get your grubby clothes on and help clean up the mess that the explosion caused….if not at the LEAP sight, how about helping the surrounding homes????
I really can’t believe people are going to stand around protesting something that NONE of us can change when you can be doing something really productive.
WOW Lindy, really — this is all Trumps fault now? When will you liberals stop blaming Trump for everything? Other countries must be continually laughing at the USA for the lack of support for our president. Our own government can’t get along — THAT is what is going to be what breaks our nation. If you want to rally about something — rally for unity in our country…..
@Lindy, How can anyone expect the mostly low income people of this state to replace a perfectly good working oil burning furnace with a more environmentally friendly heating device. Same with vehicles. Not everyone has funds at their disposal for that. If this country and all the doomsdayers were really serious they would have concrete ideas for subsidising a way for converting over to renewable devices for everyone, not just the upper class.
Volunteer by giving up everything for your little climate farce cause.
Walk not ride..
Electronic devices contain precious minerals raped from the Earth,,, give them up Now.
Put up our shut up.
Hypocrite.
Just kidding folks,, none of these things will make to much difference anyway.
But if you want to wing your hands in s dramatic fashion to make yourselves” feel” better,, go for it.
Yes, climate change is Trump’s fault in the sense that he is currently the president and in the key position to do something about this country’s greenhouse gas emissions. (US emits 5,300,000,000 tons of CO2 annually) Instead of putting in laws to lower emissions, he has been doing the opposite by promoting more fossil fuel use and then by working hard to tear down the few protective measures that we had in place. Here is a list (partial) of what he has done and/or is working on that will make climate change worse. Thankfully some of these are tied up in the courts.
-Pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Treaty
-Cancelled the stricter vehicle emissions standard that Obama put in place that was to be effective starting in 2022 (required new vehicles to get at least 54.5 mpg)
-Revoked California’s right to require vehicle emission standards that are stricter than the Federal standard
-Permitted the Keystone Pipeline
-Opened up the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling
-Working to open up offshore drilling along 90% of the US coastline. ( Many states (including Maine) have taken steps to fight this. )
-Opened up more public lands to oil drilling and streamlined the leasing process for oil and gas companies that includes weakening environmental impact concerns.
-Weakened laws that required oil and gas companies to prevent methane leaks on public and tribal lands(methane is even worse than CO2 causing global warming)
-Working to gut Obama’s Clean Power Plan that included the requirement that C02 emissions from energy generation in the country be reduced by 32% by 2030.
-Has been promoting the resurrection of the coal industry. One example…signed legislation to end Obama’s Surface Mining Stream Protection rule that kept coal mines from dumping waste into nearby waterways.
-And are we about to go to war to protect our Saudi Oil interests?
Trump has proclaimed himself a climate change denier on several occasions including his tweet:
“the concept of climate change was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive”. Is this what he really thinks? How does he explain the extensive and rapid melting that has been going on in the last couple of decades in the Arctic and the glaciers across the globe? Such a fast change is NOT an natural earth cycle which take thousands of years. This is from the huge jump in atmospheric CO2 levels since the mid 1800s when industrialization came into being. From ice cores we know levels then were around 280 ppm and now are over 400 ppm. Worldwide C02 emissions are 40 billion tons a year!!! Of course that is going to have an affect after years of emissions. It is just common sense!
To West Farmington….I don’t have $ for a hybrid or electric car but I always buy vehicles with good mpg. (My current car gets 40 mpg.) This is where the gov’t needs to play a role to get vehicles and other clean energy technologies affordable for regular people. This could start with incentives and by gov’t backing and promoting renewable energy.
Lindy you should look into the cost of “renewable” energy specifically how much those sources of energy are subsidized at a yuge rate compared to what we spend to subsidize oil. I will ask this question how will we ever pay for all this green new deal ? By the way you suppose the Obamas have a plan for a wall or levy perhaps to protect their mansion on Marthas Vineyard?
To Awww….Trump’s actions to cut regulations and open up areas to oil and gas extraction hands billions of dollars to the already rich fossil fuel industry. Those corporations save millions when they don’t have to install and maintain measures that would prevent pollution of the environment or protect public health. Opening up new untapped areas for these companies to drill provides them the opportunity to make billions. While there is some subsidizing for renewables, the fossil fuel industry is getting considerable support and hand outs from the current administration.
The Green New Deal includes high ideals and what some consider extreme measures. I think that makes it unfortunate in that a presidential candidate who supports it may lose some votes. Also, while the need to solve the climate change crisis is rapidly becoming urgent, the first step for fixing something as far reaching as climate change is, has to be acceptance of the idea by the people. I think we have to have a more moderate approach in this country. Realistically though, the GND would undoubtedly get revised and toned down by our government system before it was ever implemented. I commend those who came up with it. It has helped to bring the climate change issue to the forefront.
In regards to paying for the GND….don’t forget all the billions of dollars that all these hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and coastal flooding are costing this country every year. Who is paying for that? Us taxpayers. The increasing severity and frequency of these disasters is driven by climate change. So how much should we spend on fixing what is ultimately causing these extreme events?