The Hudson Valley People's Climate March took place on Saturday in Hudson. A thousand people gathered in the Public Square to hear speeches from environmental activists involved in environmental justice, open space, sustainable farming, and clean water, and then marched down Warren Street to protest the current administration's climate policies and demonstrate their support for acknowledging climate change and protecting the planet.
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One of the groups organizing the event, Hudson Resistance released the following statement:
The Hudson Valley People's Climate March & Rally was organized by a very small core group of people: Erin Stamper from Indivisible Chatham, Pam Kline and Cameron Melville from Indivisible CD19, and Victor Mendolia from Hudson Resistance. We think it's important that people know that a small group of people or even one person can have a big impact. Our three groups have been regularly collaborating, supporting each other on some of the biggest demonstrations and events that have taken place in Columbia County since Inauguration Day.
Going forward, we intend to grow our numbers even bigger and stronger. We encourage people working with other Indivisible and Resistance groups in the area, or individuals wanting to get more involved, to reach out to hudsonresistance@gmail.com so that we might better coordinate our efforts, support their work, and make future events even larger and more impactful.
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Sea-level is rising and will continue to rise. How much and how fast - and also the speed with which it has already risen - is mostly a subject for computer modeling.
ReplyDeleteEven within the supposed "scientific consensus," there's a lot of disagreement about these models and their respective projections.
For us in Hudson, this may not be an academic matter, though the same question is easily moot in another location (or vice versa).
For example, the 800 scientists of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) project an absolute worst-case scenario of 32.28 inches of sea-level rise by the year 2100 (or 0.82 meters).
In contrast, the handful of scientists on the Bloomberg-appointed New York City Panel on Climate Change, using modeling the IPCC considers unreliable, projects a worst-case scenario of 68 inches of sea-level rise in the City of Hudson by the year 2100 (or 1.73 meters).
Shouldn't we acknowledge and understand these differences before we commit anything to becoming our official policy?
Sure, it's great fun to get out and protest, but why not make yours an informed voice which is custom-made for your particular place in the world. Otherwise, people are in danger of thinking they actually achieved something by walking down Warren Street holding a sign.
A rising tied raise all boats. Again another very WHITE PARADE in Hudson.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the Rainbow ? Someone found out there no GOLD at either end
[Sea-level rise related:]
ReplyDeleteFor the second time in as many months, a public petition that's mildly critical of the way our Conservation Advisory Council is being run has been refused as an Agenda item by the CAC Chairman.
Do our fellow residents understand the extreme bad faith of this stance? Everyone should be willing to stand up to self-serving autocracy in City government, unless government is less about principles for you than who your friends are. That would be too shameful to consider.
I've just received an email from the CAC Chairman, explaining that the subject of sea-level rise will not be on the meeting Agenda, and because the petition itself addresses sea-level rise "therefore [the petition] will not be introduced or discussed at the May CAC meeting."
Does the CAC suddenly have a lawyer?
I replied at once:
"Bad faith ... bad faith. Mauvaise foi.
"Did you take the whole month to come up with that lawyerly move?
"You should accept the petition as a received correspondence, and be done with it. Instead you dig yourself deeper.
"I think that public service is not your forte."
Now I'd go further, and add that this latest move is despicable.
The Chairman's term is up at the end of May, and after more than a year of his misuse of the CAC to advance a specific political agenda, he should not be reappointed.
What we need on our CAC are people with at least some scientific training. Why is that so hard for people to get their heads around? These positions shouldn't be handed out to just anyone.
I don't know who the chairman is, but it sound like he done not want to hear your what you have to say.
ReplyDeleteSilence is the virtue of fools.