[CRNMC] Fwd: A once in a generation opportunity.

[Tammy Davis]

Good news on the fracking front!


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Subject: 	A once in a generation opportunity.
Date: 	Sat, 31 Jan 2015 19:46:12 +0000
From: 	May Boeve - 350.org <350 at 350.org>
Reply-To: 	350 at 350.org
To: 	Tammy Davis <tammy at mcn.org>



Dear friends,

*We are standing in a window of opportunity -- a once-in-a-generation 
opportunity to totally overhaul our energy system.*

The climate movement is on the rise, people power is beating back 
extreme energy from New York to Scotland, and renewable energy is 
cheaper than ever before. At the same time, tumbling oil prices -- which 
conventional wisdom says is bad news for the climate -- mean that the 
vast profits that underpin the fossil fuel industry’s power are on 
unusually shaky ground.

*Suddenly fossil fuels are on the defensive. Suddenly tar sands and 
fracking don’t look like such hot investments anymore.* Respectable, 
prudent fund managers are seriously considering taking their money out 
of fossil fuels, and many of them have already done so.

Will you help us seize the moment? In less than two weeks, fossil fuel 
divestment supporters from around the world will come together with a 
single message: /Fossil fuels are history, and renewable energy is our 
future./

*Global Divestment Day is February 13th, and it’s not too late to host 
your own simple action.* 
<http://act.350.org/go/6574?t=1&akid=6003.1143372.Y4c221>

All you need to lead a photo action is a camera, some home-made signs, 
and a group of friends and neighbors. Click here for more creative ideas 
<http://act.350.org/go/6591?t=2&akid=6003.1143372.Y4c221> on how you can 
add your voice to the call for a fossil free future.

*Click here to add a Global Divestment Day event to the map.* 
<http://act.350.org/go/6574?t=3&akid=6003.1143372.Y4c221>

If enough of us take action on Global Divestment Day, we can shift 
public opinion and open up the political space to radically transform 
both our energy systems and our climate policies. Whether you’re reading 
this on an island in the Pacific, a small town in Canada, or in London, 
together we can send a powerful and united global message.

I know this because every single week this January I've seen divestment 
campaign victories spread this message across the world: the first 
Swedish University to divest, an Australian city council, the United 
Methodist Church, and New York’s New School to name just a few. Earlier 
this month, victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines even organized 
actions urging the Pope to divest the Vatican from fossil fuels.

Windows like this can and do pass. Let’s not let this one pass us by.

*I hope you’ll join me on Global Divestment Day. Click here to create an 
event.* <http://act.350.org/go/6574?t=4&akid=6003.1143372.Y4c221>

Onward,

May

P.S. Don't take that "once in a generation" stuff from me -- the 
/Economist/ said the same thing earlier this month 
<http://act.350.org/go/6894?t=5&akid=6003.1143372.Y4c221>.

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