30. Climate Memo Mondays,
July 5, 2021
CLIMATE JUSTICE
350.org Sticker:
Cynthia Kaufman, The Sea Is Rising And So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook
This fight for a livable climate is hard, Dick. We are up against some incredibly powerful interests, with a LOT of money at their disposal in order to maintain the status quo. And yet, with this vote, just like so many other times, this amazing movement of ours has shown that no matter how difficult it may seem at times, we are fully committed to our one true goal. We are not going to give up or let anyone shift the narrative, and we are not going to stop until we get what we demand: Climate Justice Now!
That's why it's so inspiring that this particular sticker won. And
since we're all part of this global movement together, we want to offer you a
limited edition “Climate Justice Now” sticker, for free. You can put it on your
laptop, phone, water bottle or coffee mug to show your support for the
movement, and to make our demand for climate justice clear, wherever you go.
Fill out this form now to claim
your free sticker before they run out.
Thank
you for being by our side in this fight.
Onwards, Emily Southard
US Associate Director of Strategy and Partnerships
350.org (Bill McKibben’s org.)
Cynthia Kaufman. The
Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Climate
Justice Handbook. PM
Press, 2021. 192 pp.
The Sea is Rising and
So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook is an invitation to get involved in the movement to build a just and sustainable world in
the face of the most urgent challenge our species has ever faced. By explaining
the entrenched forces that are preventing rapid action, it helps you understand
the nature of the political reality we are facing and arms you with the tools
you need to overcome them. The book offers background information on the roots
of the crisis and the many rapidly expanding solutions that are being
implemented all around the world. It explains how to engage in productive
messaging that will pull others into the climate justice movement, what you
need to know to help build a successful movement, and the policy changes needed
to build a world with climate justice. It also explores the personal side,
including how engaging in the movement can be good for your mental health. It
ends with advice on how you can find the place where you can be the most
effective and where you can build climate action into your life in ways that
are deeply rewarding.
See and hear interviews, book reviews, and
other news on Cynthia Kaufman's page HERE.
Praise
“The Sea Is Rising
and So Are We is a rare kind of book, at once a primer for activists
and an astute commentary on a set of critical topics that even a seasoned
climate stalwart could benefit from. It takes on some really tough
questions—transformational change, how to talk about the emergency, the need
for a specifically global politics of climate justice—and it does in a manner
that is both simple and sophisticated. It’s not an easy balance, but Kaufman
pulls it off.” —Tom Athanasiou, author
of Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming
“Cynthia
Kaufman’s The Sea Is Rising and So Are We is a valuable
overview of where we as a species are in the existential fight to prevent
catastrophic climate disruption. It covers a lot, from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC]
assessment of our situation to the need for a personally supportive movement
culture to sustain our climate activism. It is an accessible, up-to-date
resource both for those who have been in the climate fight for decades and
those who know they need to do so but haven’t yet figured out how.” —Ted Glick, longtime climate organizer and
author of Burglar for Peace
“In The Sea Is
Rising and So Are We Cynthia Kaufman has provided us with a vital
manual for confronting the climate crisis and its root causes. Kaufman offers
compelling analysis, a comprehensive mapping of the political landscape, and
practical guidance for action—all in a straightforward and accessible manner.
Most importantly, she offers hope.” —Tony
Roshan Samara, Program Director of Land Use and Housing at Urban Habitat
About the Contributors
Cynthia Kaufman is the director of the Vasconcellos
Institute for Democracy in Action at De Anza College, where she runs and
teaches in a community organizer training program. She is the author of three books on social change: Challenging
Power: Democracy and Accountability in a Fractured World (Bloomsbury,
2020); Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change (2nd
ed. PM Press, 2016); and Getting Past Capitalism: History, Vision, Hope (Lexington
Books, 2012). She has been active in a wide variety of social justice movements
including Central American solidarity, union organizing, police accountability,
and most recently tenants’ right and climate change. She publishes on social
justice in Common Dreams.
Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist who in
2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the “alternative
Nobel.” His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the
first book for a general audience about climate change and has appeared in
twenty-four languages. He’s gone on to write a dozen more books. He is a
founder of 350.org, the first
planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty
thousand rallies around the world in every country save North Korea, spearheaded
the resistance to the Keystone Pipeline, and launched the fast-growing fossil
fuel divestment movement. He is the author of Falter, Oil
and Honey, Eaarth, Deep Economy, The End of
Nature, and numerous others.
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