<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Courtesy of <i>The Nation</i> at:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-strike-mckibben/">https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-strike-mckibben/</a><br><div><br></div><div>———————————————</div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 57.99px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 61.04px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">23 Reasons to Climate Strike Today</h1><h2 class="subtitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 29.69px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 39.06px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Take to the streets.</h2></div><div><br></div><div><div>year ago, inspired by Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg, young people around the world began climate striking—walking out of school for a few hours on Fridays to demand action against the global warming that darkens their future. In May, when 1.4 million kids around the world walked out of school, they asked for adults to join them next time. That next time is September 20 (in a few countries September 27), and it is shaping up to be the biggest day of climate action in the planet’s history. Everyone from big trade unions to a thousand workers at the Amazon headquarters, and from college kids to senior citizens, are setting the day aside to rally in their cities and towns for faster action from our governments and industries. You can find out what’s happening in your community at <a href="http://globalclimatestrike.net">globalclimatestrike.net</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>But it will only be a success on the scale we need if lots of people who aren’t the regular suspects join in. Many people, of course, can’t do without a day’s pay or work for bosses who would fire them if they missed work. So, it really matters that those of us with the freedom to rally do so. Since I published the first book for a general audience on climate change 30 years ago this month, I’ve had lots of time to think about the various ways to move people to action. Let me offer a few:</div></div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because the people who did the least to cause this crisis suffer first and worst—the people losing their farms to deserts and watching their islands sink beneath the waves aren’t the ones who burned the coal and gas and oil.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because coral reefs are so gloriously beautiful and complex—and so vulnerable.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because sun and wind are now the <a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Wind-Solar-Are-Now-The-Cheapest-Sources-Of-Power-Generation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; outline: 0px !important;">cheapest way</a> to generate power around the world—if we could match the political power of the fossil fuel industry we could make fast progress.</p><div class="inline-counter" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: right; width: 583.515625px;"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because we’ve already <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/10/the-earth-has-lost-more-than-half-its-animals-since-1970.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; outline: 0px !important;">lost</a> half the animals on the planet since 1970—the earth is a lonelier place.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because our governments move with such painful slowness, treating climate change as, at worst, one problem on a long list.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because this could be a great opportunity—and maybe the last opportunity—to transform our society towards justice and towards joy. Green New Deals have been proposed around the world; they are a way forward.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because forests now seem like fires waiting to happen.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because young people have asked us to. In a well-ordered society, when kids make a reasonable request their elders should say yes—in this case with real pride and hope that the next generations are standing up for what matters.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because every generation faces some great crisis, and this is ours.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because half the children in New Delhi have <a href="https://yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2017/05/14/delhis-air-pollution-and-its-effects-on-childrens-health/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; outline: 0px !important;">irreversible lung damage</a> simply from breathing the air.</p><aside class="ad-300" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin: 20px 0px 20px 40px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="ad full-width-mobile inline_ad_300x250_324458" id="inline_ad_300x250_324458" data-google-query-id="CJOayeHl3-QCFbEKfQod1wIPCA" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); text-align: center; max-width: none;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/1004953/tn_article_6__container__" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0pt none; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></div></div></aside><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because what we do this decade will matter for hundreds of thousands of years.</p></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because the temperature <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/06/29/iran-city-soars-to-record-of-129-degrees-near-hottest-ever-reliably-measured-on-earth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; outline: 0px !important;">has hit 129 degrees F</a> (or 54 degrees Celsius) in big cities in recent summers. The human body can survive that, but only for a few hours.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because do we want to be the first generation to leave the planet in worse shape?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because batteries are ever cheaper—we can now store sunshine at night, and wind for a calm day.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because the UN estimates unchecked climate change could <a href="https://unu.edu/media-relations/media-coverage/climate-migrants-might-reach-one-billion-by-2050.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; outline: 0px !important;">create a billion refugees</a> this century.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because the big banks continue to lend hundreds of billions to the fossil fuel industry—people are literally trying to get rich off the destruction of the planet<span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because what animal fouls its own nest?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because indigenous people around the world are trying to protect their rightful land from the coal and oil companies—and in the process protect all of us.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because every time they cut down a patch of rain forest to grow some more cows, the climate math gets harder.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because science is real, because physics exists, because chemistry matters.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>so you can look your grandchild—or anyone else’s—in the eye<span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: "Mercury Display A", "Mercury Display B"; font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">§ Strike, </span>because the world we were given is still so sweet.</p></div><div>———————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya there, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>