The Climate Justice League: Go Green or Die

Copenhagen has failed to produce a realistic plan to combat the climate crisis. Two degrees is too much; the current heating of 0.8C is already cooking the world, melting practically every glacier on the planet, causing deserts to spread and wildfires to be much more damaging, and ocean acidification is destroying the entire marine food web. Tens of millions will be driven from their land, their homes, and their livelihoods to become displaced climate refugees within the next forty years.

This is unacceptable. It is greed hiding behind diplomacy. It is mass murder.

If what is considered “politically feasible” is inadequate to meet the threat, then politics and politicians must change or be changed. The crooked and foolish lobbyists who sabotaged a realistic agreement must be held accountable: They must be tried for crimes against humanity immediately.

We are the Climate Justice League, and we are climate realists. We accept that we face a climate emergency and must respond appropriately. The agreement at Copenhagen leads us to climate disaster; billions will ultimately die. No more talk. The time has come to do what must be done, no matter the vested interests who will make a few millions less. We must go green or die.

The Climate Justice League Go Green or Die Manifesto

1. The economy is a part of the ecology, not separate, not the other way around. As we destroy the current ecology, we destroy civilisation and the economy. The converse is not true.
2. We must cut all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions immediately. We cannot emit any more carbon, methane, or any other greenhouse gases; every molecule emitted reduces our chances for survival.
3. Climate change is deadly: Those who concealed the truth or obstructed action must be tried for crimes against humanity and given the maximum sentence. They are dangerous sociopaths and we cannot allow them to bring us all down. This includes almost all oil and coal company Chief Executive Officers and the shills they paid to deny and obstruct.
4. Emission reductions must not be delayed by economic interests. Greedy and foolish people have put us in a life-or-death situation, and continuing to follow their lead is folly. Business people and their shills who attempt to delay are betraying all of us. They had their chance to lead, and they will not follow. They must now get out of the way; they must be jailed.
   1. We must mobilise as we did for World War II: industry must be converted overnight to be sustainable.
   2. All subsidies for greenhouse gas-emitting industries must be ended immediately, including tar mining and farming.
   3. All resource extraction industries, including farming, must immediately convert to be sustainable. Sustainable simply means that something can be done indefinitely without harm to people, planet, or prosperity.

The Key Contributors to Climate Change

Deforestation must be reversed. Illegal logging operations should be bombed from the air. Reforestation will remove carbon from the atmosphere.

High-speed electric trains must replace domestic and intra-continental air travel. Electric streetcars must replace buses and private cars wherever possible. Where private vehicles are necessary, as in rural areas, they must be powered by GHG-neutral fuels such as electricity, hydrogen, or biofuels.

Farming operations must return to sequestering carbon. Permaculture and other farming methods exist that will rebuild topsoil, making crops more resilient to drought, downpours, heat, and pests, all more common due to climate change. Monoculture must be replaced by diversity for resilience and food security. Sustainable farming removes carbon from the atmosphere.

All subsidies to greenhouse gas-releasing industries must be stopped immediately, including farming and tar mining.

Developing countries must stabilise population as quickly as humanely possible. Developed countries must stabilise population immediately by reducing immigration to zero-growth levels. Immigration to developed countries must be for refugees and family reunification only – no more economic immigrants – and only to the level at which population is maintained.

All new construction must be GHG-neutral. There are many alternatives. It is insane that our current houses last less than 100 years; the Romans had hammers and chisels and their buildings were far sturdier.

Any nation not taking every action to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to less-than-zero must become a pariah: no trade, no immigration, no aid. The rest of us must make up for any country that does not do its part.

Individual Actions

We must all do what we can, given the society we live in:

• 12 (Mostly) Legal Things Individuals Can Do Right Now to Combat Climate Change
• If legal means fail, the responsible and patriotic thing to do is civil disobedience
• If legal means and civil disobedience fail, desperate individuals will become dangerous

If you want to help save the planet, join us.