{"id":48553,"date":"2019-09-19T08:41:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T13:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48553"},"modified":"2019-09-19T08:41:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T13:41:21","slug":"a-sea-change-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48553","title":{"rendered":"A Sea Change Moment?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2019-09-19\/a-sea-change-moment\/\">A Sea Change Moment?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/climate-strike-staff-res.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow begins&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globalclimatestrike.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global Climate Strike Week<\/a>, led by young people to demand urgent action to address the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/the-environmental-crisis\/\">climate emergency<\/a>. What many hope will be a sea change moment in the struggle to mobilize a real response to this existential threat had a humble start a year ago when a young Swedish student, Greta Thunberg, began spending her Fridays protesting in front of the Swedish Parliament. Inspired by Greta\u2019s example\u2014and her blunt, uncompromising stance\u2014millions of students have since joined her in the \u201cFridays for the Future\u201d movement. This week is an opportunity for the rest of us to participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will be out on the streets tomorrow and the following Friday in my hometown, and I\u2019ll be joining a number of other activities planned locally over the coming week. PCI is supporting our staff to actively participate in the various communities where they live.&nbsp;<strong>We\u2019d like to encourage you to do the same.<\/strong>&nbsp;Visit the Climate Strike website to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globalclimatestrike.net\/#map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">find activities near you<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll be honest, I\u2019m not much of a protester. But if nothing else, this week presents an opportunity to show younger generations\u2014who will be dealing disproportionately, and unfairly, with the consequences of previous generations\u2019 profligate burning of fossil fuels\u2014that we hear and see them, and support them to take agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That said, we will utterly fail them (not to mention future generations and the millions of species who have equal rights to a livable planet) if we simply go back to life-as-usual come October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This crisis is, quite simply, wicked. As a member of the Post Carbon Institute\/resilience.org extended family, you understand that the climate emergency is one of a broader, more complex set of crises that will force an almost unimaginable set of changes to virtually every aspect of modern life \u2014 whether we make those changes proactively or are dragged there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sea Change Moment? Tomorrow begins&nbsp;Global Climate Strike Week, led by young people to demand urgent action to address the&nbsp;climate emergency. What many hope will be a sea change moment in the struggle to mobilize a real response to this existential threat had a humble start a year ago when a young Swedish student, Greta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[18514,141,13249,24684,27208,639,656,18971],"class_list":["post-48553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-asher-miller","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-emergency","tag-climate-strike","tag-global-climate-strike","tag-post-carbon-institute","tag-protest","tag-resilence-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48554,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48553\/revisions\/48554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}