THE CLIMATE CRISIS COALITION

A TIME TO ACT! - WHO WE ARE

Climate change isn't just another issue in this complicated world of proliferating issues. It's the issue that unchecked will swamp all others. Unfortunately, the urgency of the climate crisis is overwhelmed by competition from other major problems.

We have been attacked by terrorists. We are disturbed by the ongoing crisis in Iraq. Our trick-or-treat economy is as unnerving to investors as it is cruel to workers. These diverse challenges may be susceptible to a common solution -a rapid worldwide transition to clean energy.

This is a call to peace and justice, business, labor, environmental justice, student, women's, religious, academic, scientific, political, minority and cultural communities to begin working together to advance this clean energy revolution and build a new campaign.

REWIRING THE GLOBE: A NEW PATH TO PEACE!

Rewiring the globe with clean energy would do more than stave off the most disruptive impacts of global climate change. It would create millions of jobs all over the world. It could provide economic independence for developing countries. It would address the economic desperation that underlies anti-Western terrorism. It would liberate the U.S. from its destructive military and diplomatic entanglements in the Middle East. It would substantially expand the overall wealth and equity of the global economy. It would begin to put democratically-determined boundaries around huge and unaccountable multi-national corporations. It would mark a major step toward peace among people and peace between people and nature.

A TIME TO ACT!

To move this program forward, this new coalition is emerging now. To be successful, this movement, must include a plan for a just transition for workers in the energy field. It must address the disproportionately negative impacts of our fossil fuel-based economy on low-income people, on indigenous and other people of color, both in the U.S. and around the world.

Our mission must be the development and unfolding of a national and visible action campaign that makes it impossible for governments to ignore our urgent demands. The action plans must also involve an emphasis on working with local communities to assist with their efforts to organize around climate related issues in their neighborhood.

"Climate change is no longer the exclusive franchise of environmental groups; we should be forging alliances with other activists to mobilize a broad and inclusive constituency around this issue." Ross Gelbspan