BK 11 (May 7, 2019): Climate Justice - Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future

Hi Everyone...

Our May meeting we will discuss Climate Justice: Hope Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson (Sep 4, 2018).

With 144 reading pages it is approximately 5 pages a day.

Check out the Bio & Videos below...

"The antidote for your climate change paralysis. ―Sierra Magazine

An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward.

Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would share the planet with more than nine billion people--people battling for food, water, and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate. The faceless, shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal.

Mary Robinson’s mission would lead her all over the world, from Malawi to Mongolia, and to a heartening revelation: that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself. From Sharon Hanshaw, the Mississippi matriarch whose campaign began in her East Biloxi hair salon and culminated in her speaking at the United Nations, to Constance Okollet, a small farmer who transformed the fortunes of her ailing community in rural Uganda, Robinson met with ordinary people whose resilience and ingenuity had already unlocked extraordinary change.

Powerful and deeply humane, Climate Justice is a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time, and a lucid, affirmative, and well-argued case for hope.

“As advocate for the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world.” -Barack Obama"
Here are a few below but check out her YouTube Channel for More! 

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This is what we discussed at the meeting...

* South Africa climate change already affecting lives.

* Sharon Hanshaw Salon owner from Biloxi, MS - Hurricane Katrina

* Patricia Cochran - Alaska/Artic

* FL sea levels

* Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim & Republic of Chad

* Jannie Staffansson & Saami people of Eurropean Union

* Choctaw sending money to Irish Famine victims

* Vu Thi Hien & Vietnam's Viodiversity

* Indigenous people manage 24% of the total carbon stored in Tropical forests, greater than 250 times the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by global air travel in 2015.

* Vietnam has at least 25M forest-dependent people and they avg 20% of their income from forest resources.

* The forest regulates the temperature surrounding the villages.

* Anote Tong, former President of Republic of Kiribati & the loss of the islands

* Natalie Isaac & her 1M Women Movement on reducing carbon footprint

* Ken Smith & Miners relocating and finding new jobs

* Sharon Burrow & Just Transition toward a decarbonised world

* Renewable Energy employs more than 3/4 of a Million Americans

* Jobs in solar and wind are growing 12 times faster than other jobs in US

* 2016 solar employed more than coal, oil & gas combined

* Wind employs 100, 000 jobs

* Christiana Figueres from Costa Rica, former head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change &  key architect in the Paris Agreement, Costa Rica produces nearly all their electricity through renewable energy.

* Trump pulling out of the Paris Agreement made other countries much more committed

* Nearly 3B people still live without access to clean cooking and fumes (wood,k charcoal, animal dung and crop waste) kill more than 4M people each year and sicken millions more

* 240M in India still lack electricity though Govt committed to power all people by 2030 thanks to 1B from the World Bank rooftop solar panels

* Sheela Patel  of Slum/Shack Dwellers International works to provide water, sanitation & electricity to more than 1B people.

* Uruguay - 95% of their electricity comes from renewable (wind & solar)

* China added a 34 gigawatts solar capacity in 2016 & already produces 2/3 of the world's solar panes and nearly half of the world's wind turbines. The GOVT plans on 750 gigawatts by 2020 and 60% of energy renewable by 2027

*  Fiji committed to fully renewable by 2030

* Kenya has 1/2 people without electricity has cut costs by 51% by using geothermal power and intends on generating more then 70% adding wind by 2030.