Climate “Fair Shares” Explained – Video
Over the last few years I’ve written several posts about the importance of humanity coming together to solve the climate crisis. It will be necessary to eliminate carbon emissions everywhere in the world. The money for doing that must come from those who have the capacity to pay and must assist those nations that don’t have the resources to transition to clean energy and adapt to climate change without outside financial assistance.
This is often called a “fair shares” approach. I’ve also written about the importance of sharing these ideas widely and beginning the process of building support among people in the wealthy nations of the world for such global financing. Now there’s a new 6-minute video available that gives a fine explanation. Rather than writing a blog post this week, I’m sharing the video with you and encouraging you to share it with others.
The video is from the US Climate Fair Share project of the U.S. Climate Action Network and is narrated by Reverend Michael Malcom of the People’s Justice Council in Birmingham, Alabama. It’s definitely worth 6 minutes of your time.
US Climate Fair Share is launching a communications campaign to spread these perspectives widely and invites all of us to join in. You might want to check out their “get involved” page.
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I agree with this, but how will this U.S. capitalistic system ever agree to put people over profit? I’ve been reading How to be an Antiracist, and it was pointed out that minds change AFTER policy changes for the most part. We need political will to change policy!
Very clear video and totally sane perspective, IF people want justice and survival of this planet.
In a moment of discouragement , I’m wondering how many people care much about either as long as their immediate nook is comfortable.
Dusty and I just watched this—so clear! “We must put planet and people before profit!” We will share this. Thank you, Russ for pointing us to it.
Excellent video, and a great entry point to learningabout the Fair Share campaign. Makes me wonder about the % that Australia should contribute? I also wondered why the offshore oil rig in the great animation never disappeared? Here in Australia one of the biggest campaigns is to stop new underwater oil exploration and drilling. The old projects have to disappear sometime too!
Nicky,
I wondered the same thing about the offshore oil rig remaining in the images.
Here’s a link to an article in the Guardian about Australia’s fair share. There’s not yet an international consensus on how fair shares should be calculated, so figures will differ. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/15/australia-is-funding-just-one-tenth-of-its-fair-share-of-global-climate-action-study-finds
Russ
Yes! This video is excellent–crystal clear– and I will share it widely with the Build Reuse community.
Thank you.
Pam Howland
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