Sink Or Swim? Maine’S Fishing Industry and Environmentalists Look to the Future by Deirdre Fulton | P 8
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(As it happened, movement to confront climate change, the the reports were barely mentioned by major most urgent crisis human beings have ever news outlets.) The generally conservative IEA faced. I want to start with two scenes, and affirmed that at least two-thirds of proven two speakers, who embody the impera- fossil-fuel reserves must stay in the ground tives, and the limitations, of the moment in between now and 2050 in order to have a shot which we find ourselves. at keeping the global average temperature July 26, 2011 Inside a federal courtroom in from rising more than 2 degrees C (3.6 F), the Salt Lake City, Utah, a 30-year-old climate ac- internationally agreed-upon “red line.” (In tivist named Tim DeChristopher is sentenced its 2011 report, the IEA concluded that un- to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine for less a massive global shift to clean-energy disrupting a Bureau of Land Management infrastructure begins in earnest within auction of oil and gas leases back in Decem- five years — make that four now — we’ll be ber 2008. Registered as Bidder #70, he man- “locked in” to catastrophic warming.) The aged to win bids worth $1.8 million for some World Bank warned that we’re on track for 4 22,000 acres of public land near Canyonlands degrees C (7.2 F) this century — which it says National Park — bids he had no way of pay- is quite likely beyond adaptation, and “must ing. He had acted spontaneously, on his be avoided.” The analysts at PwC, in a report conscience, engaged in nonviolent resistance titled “Too Late for Two Degrees?,” concluded to the heedless new extraction of fossil fuels that we’ve “passed a critical threshold,” and that are catastrophically heating the planet that we should prepare for 4 degrees, or even and threatening innumerable innocent lives. 6 degrees (10.8 F), this century, unless the Weeks before his sentencing, DeChris- carbon-intensity of the global economy can topher told Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell: “I’m a be reduced by an unprecedented 5 percent per mith taylor climate-justice activist. We want a radi- S year for the next 40 years. cally different world. We want a healthy, just To put that conclusion in perspective: world.” But first, he said, “we need to get the janet one of the world’s leading climate scientists, fossil fuel industry out of the way. First we’ve Kevin Anderson at the UK’s Tyndall Centre, got to overthrow the corporate power that is change. Flanked by Kevin Knobloch, presi- day in November, and I had to wonder: if has said that 4 degrees C would be “incom- running our government.” He understands dent of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Markey was as serious as he sounded about patible with an organized global commu- what that requires. “It will involve confronta- and Mindy Lubber, representing $11 trillion in climate change, what kind of “bold” action nity.” The US government’s draft National tion and it will involve sacrifice.” assets as the director of the Investor Network would match the necessity of the moment Climate Assessment, released in January, At his sentencing, standing before the on Climate Risk, Markey displays satellite and his rhetoric invoking the grand radical suggests that we’re on track for 9 to 15-de- federal judge, DeChristopher concludes photos of Boston illustrating that huge sec- tradition in American history? grees Fahrenheit warming over most of the a long, eloquent statement that spreads tions of the city — like the entire Back Bay Certainly nothing that he or any other United States within this century. across the Internet and galvanizes a growing — would be underwater if Sandy had hit the politician in Washington, including (espe- Unless, that is, we drastically change climate-justice movement: Hub instead of New York and New Jersey. cially) President Obama, has ever proposed course. “This is not going away. At this point of But Markey isn’t there just to talk about comes anywhere close. Even the doomed It seems fairly obvious that the reason unimaginable threats on the horizon, this disaster response or building seawalls in Bos- 2009 “cap-and-trade” bill that Markey co- we don’t hear politicians, or the “serious” is what hope looks like.