#fight4afuture — Public Fediverse posts

“We will not continue expending resources, diplomatic capital, & the legitimizing weight of our participation in institutions that are irrelevant to or in conflict with our interests,” Secy of #State #MarcoRubio said in a statement. “We seek cooperation where it serves our people & will stand firm where it does not.”

#geopolitics #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #Fight4aFuture #law

It also set up a process for negotiations between countries that have come to be known as the annual #UN #climate summits. It was under the #UNFCCC’s auspices that the #KyotoProtocol was negotiated in 1995, & the #ParisAgreement in 2015 — two monumental moments of global cooperation & progress toward limiting harmful climate #pollution.

#geopolitics #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #Fight4aFuture #law

#US leaving #climate #treaty

#Trump directive makes the #UnitedStates the 1st country to pull out of the 1992 agreement that underpins global cooperation on #ClimateChange

The Trump admin is pulling the US out of the bedrock treaty underpinning international cooperation on climate change, along with dozens of other global bodies, acc/to a memo released by the White House Wednesday evening & an accompanying social media post.

#geopolitics #ClimateCrisis #Fight4aFuture
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/climate/trump-withdrawal-climate-treaty-international-agreements

#Trunp #Energy Secretary Pledges to Reverse Focus on #ClimateChange

To applause from #oil & #gas executives, #ChrisWright said #NaturalGas was preferable to #RenewableEnergy & #climate change was a “side effect of building the modern world.”

#ClimateCrisis #Fight4aFuture #FossilFuels #science #USpol #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/climate/energy-secretary-climate-change-fossil-fuels.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=B781C9BB-6190-487F-BE56-E9937CE369A8

The (perhaps unfair) irony is that such sentiments seemed old-fashioned from #Biden but sound fresh when put forward by a younger woman — from California, for goodness’ sake! — whom no one can think of as a fogey. In a way that an 81-year-old incumbent never could, she can make calls for a bit of political #peace forward-looking (“#WeAreNotGoingBack”) & harness the nation’s exhaustion w/ #Trump’s gloomy acrimony.

#democracy #freedom #HumanRights #Ally #joy #Fight4AFuture #HarrisWalz2024

“Our campaign is about saying, ‘We #trust the #people, we #see the people, we #know the people.’ You know one of the things I love about our country? We are a #nation of people who #believe in those #ideals that were #foundational to what made us so #special as a nation. … We #love our #country,” #Harris told the #UAW.

#democracy #freedom #HumanRights #Ally #joy #Fight4AFuture #WeAreNotGoingBack #HarrisWalz2024

Meanwhile, #Harris was in #Michigan at a #UAW local flanked by #Walz & #ShawnFain, the #union’s visionary president, to extol “the #dignity of #work” & the #value of #collective #action.

While MaraLago #Trump called the #UnitedStates a “very, very sick country right now,” Harris spoke an actual populist language w/a strong emphasis on #patriotism.

#democracy #freedom #HumanRights #Ally #joy #Fight4AFuture #WeAreNotGoingBack #HarrisWalz2024

My favorite indicator of the campaign’s #CulturalRevolution: For years, #social scientists have noted that Starbucks drinkers are more #liberal while Dunkin’ drinkers are more #conservative. But the #Harris campaign started selling T-shirts w/ “#HarrisWalz” in the colors & typeface of #Dunkin’. So much for “#LatteLiberals.”

#democracy #freedom #HumanRights #Ally #joy #Fight4AFuture #WeAreNotGoingBack #HarrisWalz2024

All the ink spilled about who was a more “#centrist” or “#liberal” pick for the #VP job lost track of the fact that while #Walz is, indeed, the second kind of liberal he is the very antithesis of the first, the variety that #Republicans love to parody.

#democracy #freedom #HumanRights #Ally #joy #Fight4AFuture #WeAreNotGoingBack #HarrisWalz2024

Choosing MN Gov #TimWalz as her running mate reinforces the move away from clichés about “coastal politics” & “cultural elites.” Instead, she wants to fight on specific, #practical measures #government can take to #ImproveLives, from #FamilyLeave to expansions of #HealthCoverage. Both #Harris & #Walz are speaking a #soothing& — to pick up on #Democrats’ favorite #virtue these days — #joyful language of #patriotism & national #unity.

#HumanRights #Fight4AFuture #WeAreNotGoingBack #HarrisWalz2024

Besides seeking to repeal #Biden’s programs outright, #Trump could also seek to divert spending to his own priorities — such as promoting #oil, natural #gas & #coal or, w/ #Congress’ help, using the money to help pay for renewing Trump’s 2017 #TaxLaw, which it’s estimated would COST $4.6T.

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Project2025 #Fight4AFuture #VoteBlue #Harris2024

Admin ofcls have expressed confidence in another guardrail: Unless #Congress repeals the #Biden-era programs, #Trump would be legally obliged to carry them out. But Trump has asserted he should have the authority to override Congress’ spending decisions — & just this month, #SCOTUS handed presidents broad #immunity from #legal consequences for openly flouting the #law.

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Project2025 #Fight4AFuture #VoteBlue #Harris2024

#Trump would face varying #legal & practical difficulties in clawing back whatever money #Biden’s agencies have shoveled out the door before Inauguration Day, as well as the hundreds of billions in #transportation & #energy money that #Congress placed in states’ hands to spend.

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Project2025 #Fight4AFuture #VoteBlue #Harris2024

The new #GOP platform similarly calls for “terminating the Socialist Green New Deal” & ending what it describes as Biden’s “ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE.” [their all-caps]

A limited number of forces might be in place to deter #Trump.

#Republican governors & lawmakers whose states are in line to benefit from #Biden’s programs could object to repealing them.

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Fight4AFuture #VoteBlue #Harris2024

#Trump has been vague about which parts of #Biden’s programs he would seek to throttle or alter—but not about his #hostility to the #climate agenda.

“All of the trillions…that are…not yet spent, we will redirect…for…projects like roads, bridges, dams & we will not allow it to be spent on meaningless Green New Scam ideas,” Trump said during his speech at the #RNC, vastly *overstating* [lying about] the amt of money Biden’s agencies have yet to disburse.

#ClimateChange #Fight4AFuture #Harris2024

Tonight, I’d like #Biden to ask, “do you want the next generation to use the dollar as currency or do you want them bartering for #water? Because that’s what will happen under #Trump’s & #Project2025’s total disregard for the #ClimateCrisis. The world will be on #fire, & everyone will be desperate for clean drinking water.”

#SCOTUS #law #FederalAgencies #regulations #DarkMoney #BidenHarris2024 #Fight4AFuture
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/science/climate-issues/water