My wife's latest blog explains that a global survey shows 89% of the world’s population wants their government to do more on Climate Change.

People feel trapped in a “spiral of silence” because they believe they are in the minority. But we are *not* and each of us can and must do more to move the situation forward.

Her blog looks at why we must find our courage, urgently. We can’t afford to wait any longer.

https://agrandmothersdream.com/what-more-can-i-do/

#The89Percent Project is a global #media collaboration aimed at highlighting the fact that the vast majority of people in the world care about climate change and want their governments to do something about it. Coverage started on #EarthDay and will lead to the #COP30 UN climate summit in Brazil.

#Media, #newsrooms, and #journalists can join with their stories! https://89percent.org/

"People are instinctively drawn to majority views and are also more likely to do something if they think others are doing it too. Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed." New data against misperceptions: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/22/activate-climate-silent-majority-support-supercharge-action

#German #ClimateActivist faces expulsion from #Austria after ban

AFP Apr 7, 2025, Updated Apr 8, 2025

"Austria has banned a German climate activist for two years, she said on Monday, adding she would fight the decision, which could see her expelled from the Alpine EU member.

"#AnjaWindl, who has been living in Austria for seven years, became known for her #protests against #ClimateChange, including glueing herself on streets to stop #traffic with the #LastGeneration group.

"In a decision Windl received last week, the Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum issued the two-year ban, giving her one month to leave the country.
"The ban was issued after the German activist was found to pose a 'danger for the #PublicOrder and security', according to the decision seen by AFP.

" 'This is highly problematic from a democratic perspective,' Windl, a 28-year-old psychology #student, told AFP, adding she would appeal the ban.

" 'We are moving toward civilisational #collapse, and instead of holding those responsible accountable, it is those who have peacefully advocated for the preservation of our livelihoods" who are targeted, she said.

"Her lawyer, Ralf Niederhammer, said he did not know of any other political activist being banned from Austria. Windl faces no criminal charges, he added."

Read more:
https://homenewshere.com/national/news/article_5a9945d1-17ed-57c3-9d7a-9152ee80d9b5.html

Surely it depends what JSO's aims actually were?

"The “#radicalflankeffect” shows that when radical #activists push boundaries, they often make #moderatevoices in the same movement appear more reasonable. Recent #research on #JSO found that even when the group provoked #publicanger, support for moderate organisations such as #FriendsoftheEarth increased."

Being hated worked for #JustStopOil
https://theconversation.com/being-hated-worked-for-just-stop-oil-253379

#ClimateAction
#climateactivism
#climatechange
#fossilfuels
#climateprotests

Study: The impacts of climate activism
"There is strong evidence that climate activism shifts public opinion and media coverage in a pro-climate direction, but this varies by context and the tactics employed. There is more moderate evidence that activism can pressure policymakers to communicate more about climate change, encourage voters to vote in a more pro-climate direction, and financially pressure carbon-intensive companies."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352154625000178?via=mastodon #climate #climateactivism #climatescience

Hello from post-Equinox heat wave here in the sacred Mojave.

We see with the return of the sun also the return of young tree leaves, bees, dragonflies, and so much more. The cover crops I failed to grow last year are sprouting en masse in newly finished infiltration basins, irrigated with greywater from the communal house, and I've even seen mushrooms that I've inoculated into straw beds fruit after rains. So much of this feels like hope. Our young chickens are enjoying their first unsupervised forays into their little fenced run (until they're big enough to trust foraging), and we saw our first Great Horned Owl a few weeks ago.

Our website is live, and I hope you'll join us if you haven't already. We're releasing our first newsletter Monday, trying to put to digital paper Equinox contemplations, and bring you along on this journey with us.

https://rancholibertad.com

It's free, and we appreciate your support.

We are also trying to get a few trees in the ground before it gets too hot. If you feel up to monetary support to help us with purchasing saplings, we don't have our own ko-fi or paid tiers of the newsletter offering, yet, but we can accept donations (or purchases that support the ranch) through Siin's ko-fi:

https://ko-fi.com/sigillosacro

We appreciate & love you all, being to being. Stay safe out there.

Siin & Star

Shoot the messenger. Today’s cartoon by Max Gustafson. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/search?query=&sort=created&order=desc

SAVE @greenpeace !!!

Climate activism must prevail in order to defeat the bullies who crave profit over our health and environment.

"n his timely new book, French climate activist Clément Sénéchal argues that the environmental movement itself is also partly to blame. Pourquoi l’écologie perd toujours (Why Environmentalism Always Loses) is a survey of the increased pessimism among ecologists, such as could only be expected from someone who has devoted the first years of his adult life to the cause. The book charts how Sénéchal, a former campaigner with Greenpeace France, lost faith in the multinational NGO — and the broader mode of environmental politics in which such groups are embedded. “As I broach middle age, my generation finds itself in an ontologically degraded natural world, in a negative reality,” Sénéchal writes in the introduction. “We still have our lives to lead, but it seems like they’ll only play out in a continuum of dead-ends.”

For the author, the original sin of political ecology lies in its failure to establish itself as a durable mass movement, picking up where broad-based struggles such as the labor movement, feminism, and anti-racism leave off. Despite ever-present warnings about climate change, environmental politics and policy remain the preserve of well-educated and genteel urban dwellers, the “new ecological class” as the late philosopher Bruno Latour lauded in a recent pamphlet. This demographic’s concern and sense of urgency is undoubtedly sincere. But its domination over the movement’s main organizations — from legacy NGOs such as Greenpeace, Oxfam, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to the tepid Green parties of western Europe — has been politically catastrophic. Since the 1970s, when that organizational ecosystem first took form, environmentalism has diverged from what Sénéchal views as its natural home: in a working-class politics that incorporates the defense of the environment into the critique of capitalism."

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/environmentalism-climate-activism-ngos-policy

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