I am inspired tonight by a post on Facebook from Sunrise Movement Gallatin County that asks us to honor Greta Thunberg by watching (or re-watching) her powerful TED Talk from November 2018 (just three months after she began striking).
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We can no longer plan our backpacking and camping trips for August without wondering whether we will be smoked out, or whether the forests will be closed due to extreme fire danger. The abrupt switch from clear summers to smoke in 2000 was shocking, although in our mobile society I’ve found that many people who live in Missoula now don’t realize summers were not always this way.
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I am eleven years old, hopefully I have much longer to be left on this planet. I don't like to see my planet dying, so we need to save it from climate change. I first became involved in activism when I watched the film “Chasing Ice,” which made me very upset. I dictated a letter to my parents and they mailed it to our state senator, Jon Tester. This all happened at the age of three.
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Today, Families for a Livable Climate joined 228 parent-led climate groups from 28 countries in a joint letter to delegates at the UN climate negotiations demanding ambitious climate action. As parents we demand a safe future for our children - for all children - and call upon parents everywhere to join us. Plea.parentsforfuture.org
We are proud to stand with families around the globe demanding livable future for us all.
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Families for a Livable Climate empowers Montana families to advocate for their future in the age of climate change. We do this work by offering free community climate conversations, hosting Fridays for Action working groups across Montana, sponsoring community events (such as DearTomorrow Missoula), and working on Montana voter education. In 2020, we will also organize the Montana Community Climate Summit for families across that state.
On #GivingTuesday, we are kicking off our first fundraiser. Learn more and support out work!
Read MoreTo make the deep systemic change needed to address the climate crisis, we need a movement that channels the energy of these big gatherings into day-to-day action.
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Families plan for the future. But how do you plan for a future that includes the climate crisis?
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For California families, the easy, cheap power we all expect and rely on, has been withdrawn as their utility provider’s infrastructure, webbed across the state, is, at the moment, nothing more than an intricate fuse embedded in climate-change-dried kindling.
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As you complete your ballot for the City Council elections, please join me in supporting the six candidates who are committed to our community values, fiscal responsibility, and doing our part to combat the growing climate crisis: Heidi West (Ward 1), Mirtha Becerra (Ward 2), Gwen Jones (Ward 3), Amber Sherrill (Ward 4), Alex Fregario (Ward 5), and Nick Shontz (Ward 6).
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