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Cross-posted from Realizing the Future:
There’s a lot happening right now. In the United States, relentless wildfires have been blazing out west and record heat waves have scorched the country. Our friend Tim DeChristopher’s two-year sentence nears the one-year mark. Alberta’s tar sands oil has been gushing out of pipelines into rivers and the fracking boom continues to explode. The climate crisis and the tragedies caused by the extraction and burning of fossil fuels are becoming more and more real, to more and more people with every passing day.
And at the same time the climate movement is rising up like a wildflower shooting through pavement, reaching for the sun.
A Summer of Solidarity is on tap with actions happening all over the country, including sustained non-violent direct actions planned in West Virginia, Texas and Montana. With a great sense of solidarity throughout the movement we’ll be taking on mountain top removal coal mining, the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, coal export mining and much much more.
As we look forward, I thought it might inspire folks to take a few minutes to look back. From Tim DeChristopher’s speech on the courthouse steps after his conviction to the 1,253 arrests during the Tar Sands Action, 2011 was electrifying. And while we won only a very temporary victory when President Obama denied TransCanada’s permit to build Keystone XL in its entirety, the campaign did demonstrate the power we hold when we act as one.
Together, in the weeks and months ahead lets keep on making a noise that’s ever bigger and bolder and more beautiful!
Here’s #NOKXL:
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We have had our share of record shattering wildfires in New Mexico in the past few years. The Bureau of Land Management knows it needs to thin out its forests and limit the development of houses and subdivisions encroaching near these lands. However they do not have the number of people or the money to deal with this proactively. Not to mention the severity of drought affecting these forests. Then, you have Tea Party and Conservative Republicans (no hate for either party just stating party platform) that sponsors bills and kill others all in the name of smaller government. Well I can respect less of the Big Hand dictating since it is so tied up in bureaucracy and petty politics anyway and because it doesn’t stir the passion of people to do good quite as well as when it is a grassroots campaign. It is my belief that the general public and the environmental groups need better education and reciprocating projects to effectively help. There are so many downed trees, sick trees, thirsty trees and flammable forest ground that at this point, human intervention is a must. To do nothing would only exasperate the problem. Our years of fire suppression have created a tinderbox out of the SW Rocky Mountain forests that defies the natural order and benefit of naturally occurring wildfires. There are plenty of everyday citizens in NM with lifestyles still tied to using the land in a respectful and communal manner. What kind of ideas can your organization generate to help return our forest lands to a healthier state??
In peace,
Teresa Tenorio
Concerned NM enthusiast and nature lover.
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