On June 1, 2017, President Donald Trump announced that the
United States of America would be pulling out of the Paris
Climate Accord. “It is time to exit the Paris Accord” With one
speech, Trump gave a glaring signal to the world that the US
was not invested in reducing carbon emissions and working
with countries around the globe to stop climate change. While
this move was brash and potentially detrimental, both in
practice and in what the country was communicating to the
international community, state and local governments stood up
and said, “Not on our watch!" From Los Angeles to DC, local
governments pledged their support to reducing carbon
emissions and sticking to the intended goals of the Paris
Climate Agreement to combat global warming. Governors and
mayors alike recognized the impending danger of global
warming and vowed to honor the agreement, sans Trump’s
blessing, and continue to make and uphold legislation that
moves them towards their greenhouse gas emission targets.
This resistance to Trump’s decision illustrates the impact
and power smaller jurisdictions can have on making real change.
Indivisible recognizes that impact and wants to put the
power in our hands, as citizens, to help make that change.
Indivisible is all about getting the people motivated and moved
to call their congress members, sign petitions, and lead the
charge on making real impactful change on the local level. They
know how to make lawmakers listen...since they used to work
for them! Former congressional staffers, the people behind
Indivisible know what it takes to start a movement and know
that in order to prevent more assaults like this against the
environment and against our future, we have to start with
our local representatives. And as we saw following Trump’s
Paris Accord announcement, the local level is not one to mess
with. Plus they make it easy for you. Indivisible provides a
step-by-step guide to help you identify, or organize, your own
local group that also wants to work to make real progressive
change. Then they help you identify the ways in which you
can make sure that your representatives (ya know, the
ones that are supposedly speaking on behalf of you) are
actually representing your voice in Washington. Whether through
town halls, public events, office visits, or coordinated
calls, Indivisible believes that your voice should be heard and
knows that when we join together, we will NOT be
ignored. And when we are talking about the future of our planet,
we can NOT be ignored. As global warming and climate change
become greater and more imminent, as we’ve seen in an
Inconvenient Truth and now, in an Inconvenient Sequel, we’ll
need to inspire and demand our local leaders to commit their
votes and their policies to our mother earth. Temperatures and
sea levels are rising...national disasters are killing people and
entire animal species alike. But instead of working harder to
ensure a home for future generations, our “leader”
declared that climate change was a Chinese hoax, that cold days
negate the reality of global warming, “It’s supposed to be 70
degrees today. It’s freezing here! Speaking of global
warming, where is- we need some global warming!” and that we
will pull out of an agreement, that nearly every single other
nation on earth signed, to save our earth. Apparently we’d like
to move backwards when it comes to energy to save money for big
bad corporations and create a few extra jobs in the coal and
mining industries, that are already dying. This is not a
partisan issue. This is a moral issue. And it’s one that if we
don’t fight for, we could see the end of our planet as we know
it. Fight for planet and do it by planning resistance to
Trump’s anti-mother-earth policies by using the tools from
Indivisible. If we work together, we can make real
change and work to save our earth from the damage that has
already been done. We started this mess, now it’s time to
finish it. Indivisible and Inconvenient Sequel steward,
former Vice President, Al Gore have already teamed up to plan
protests during your congress member’s August recess. It is
your duty to be there too. Go see Inconvenient Sequel to arm
yourself with the information and motivation for what you’re
fighting for and head over to inconvenientsequel.com/action to
take action and start the war. We can do this. We must do this.
It’s no longer a choice... Thanks for watching TYT! I’m
Hannah Cranston and don’t forget to follow my earthly adventures
@HannahCranston.