Parents for Climate Protection

Stories of survival & resilience, from the wildfires of CA to hurricanes in PR, floods in Nebraska and indiginous voices of Alaska...on Earth Day🌍

These Families Experienced Unthinkable Natural Disasters Because of Climate Change and the Psychological Aftermath Is Tremendous As states continue to face record-breaking climate events, families navigate the anxiety these new weather patterns bring. While experts say viral diseases like COVID-19 could be the latest effect of the earth's warming, we can learn from four families who have survived natural disasters and came ou...

https://www.parents.com/news/parents-role-in-the-climate-movement/

My Daughter and I Joined the Global Climate Strike Today: Here's What it Meant to Us As my daughter joined the Global Climate Strike, I joined the march. Here's what I learned from following her, Greta Turnberg's, and thousands of other young people's lead.

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-how-to-advance-by-retreating-20190912-dns7mo6wafh2lekxxnprgml7he-story.html

How to advance by retreating: As climate change advances, it’s time to think about leaving the coasts “I would like us all to think of “retreat” as not just retreating from unsustainable places but unsustainable ways of life," Liz Koslov, assistant professor at UCLA offered recently at Columbia University’s Earth Institute conference, “At What Point Managed Retreat: Resilience Building in ...

AOC has the interests of young people at heart.

‘People are dying': Ocasio-Cortez delivers fiery speech on climate inaction – video ‘You want to tell people that their desire for clean air and clean water is elitist?’, yells a impassioned Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after Republicans push-back on her climate change policy

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/opinion/sunday/green-new-deal-mcconnell.html

Opinion | People Actually Like the Green New Deal Mitch McConnell’s show vote in the Senate on Tuesday rejected the plan, but Republicans may come to regret their mockery.

Taken the pledge NOT to accept fossil fuel money =

Kirsten Gillibrand
Bernie Sanders
Elizabeth Warren
Tulsi Gabbard
Jay Inslee

Why Won’t These Democrats Reject Fossil Fuel Money? The No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge is a major litmus test for 2020 candidates.

Hélène Costa de Beauregard would like to share this invitation with you: Dear parents, my husband and I started a petition to ask the Nobel foundation to administer a new prize for actions against climate change.

Alfred Nobel created the prizes to reward those whose works were for the greatest benefit to humankind. What can be more to the benefit to us and our children than to act against climate change?

Those who are leading the way deserve the highest distinction, they deserve a Nobel Prize!

Please, help us open the dialogue with the Nobel Foundation by adding your name to the petition.

If they agreed to add a Prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel in 1968, how could they refuse to administer a prize for climate actions?

Let show them that this is Prize we want to be created! The petition is at the link below

https://www.change.org/p/petition-for-the-creation-of-a-new-nobel-prize-for-the-fight-against-climate-change👇

Sign the Petition Create A New Nobel Prize For The Fight Against Climate Change

Stories like these are never published on the front pages of the Washington Post or New York Times, but these countries and their citizens are the canaries in the coal mine. Do we care enough to help them adapt to climate change?

Climate Change Is Here—and It Looks Like Starvation But don’t expect to hear about it on the nightly news.

Encouraged by our youth across the globe. They fully understand what's happening to the planet and the threats to their future.

Thousands of German students walk out of school to protest climate change The students were led by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, and the protest is part of a global movement known as ‘School Strike 4 Climate’ or ‘Fridays For Future’

Three words: Climate Change, habitat loss, and pesticides.

World's food supply under 'severe threat' from loss of biodiversity Plants, insects and organisms crucial to food production in steep decline, says UN

Climate change is making fires worse in California.

Fire chief: climate change helped make California wildfires more devastating Daryl Osby says fire in north of state has taken resources which would usually be used to help deadly blaze in his area

If farmers are terrified of climate change, why did they vote for Trump?

Politicians say nothing, but US farmers are increasingly terrified by it – climate change Research forecasts Iowa corn yields could drop in half within the next half-century thanks to extreme weather – yet it’s not part of the political conversation