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In the past we did not need to be aware of processes such as the carbon cycle, which is essential for all life on the planet. It was self-regulating and affected little by human activity. But today, we are changing its workings in dangerous ways by burning fossil fuels and reducing the earth’s vegetation. It has taken us a long time to learn that we are also seriously reducing the number of species of both animals and plants on the planet. We do not feel our planet changing, and our responses to what is happening are halfhearted because we do not yet feel the consequences. – Peter Seidel, page 31, from his book ‘THERE IS STILL TIME’

Welcome! Climate Change Community is now a place where one visits to educate oneself, have meaningful dialogue, find ideas, solutions, and resources, browse the article library, and more. It includes groups, forums, zoom and webinar rooms, profile management, and soon more advanced features. What motivates these creative efforts is our intense anxiety and alarm about our children’s future in lieu of our Climate Emergency as detailed in the past IPCC reports!

Climate Change Community and the actual communities under its umbrella are not for us viewed as a social media site(s), they are or can be considered an educational venue, sort of like a free library of resources and more. So in essence Climate Change Community and the communities can be considered a feasible tool to use towards self-education, participate in meaningful dialogue and a center for a sustainable community cooperation and collaboration. We can combine our efforts in this way using this now valuable tool.

We have been working on some specific ‘community based ideas’ (template format) that can be used by States, Cities, Towns, Villages and Communities to help tackle the Climate Emergency. See details of templates and examples on the subscription page with detailed explanations of the benefits of this tool which is designed to help tackle the Climate Emergency using community collaboration and cooperation in a beneficial way.

– It is a confirmed fact that one of the beneficial actions around the planet right now is that many skilled and highly educated professionals are receiving their Climate Change Professional Certifications. As well universities and private institutions are also training people as well in both degree and non-degree sustainability types of skill-set. To seek out knowledge from these professionals which many are teachers, scientist, philosophers, writers, educators and others that have cemented and honed their capability to a masters level is key for many of us.

– There are also many cities, organizations, climate groups and individuals hosting webinar and video conference meeting and they are for the most part welcoming to those who are willing to learn, offer and participate. Speaking from first-hand experience this is very supportive and beneficial as you have front row seats to some of the important climate action that is taking place within local cities and other locations around the world.

– These two last points give us the gems to increase our education, and more in order to help each other. If the Climate Emergency becomes truly unmanageable, we have the potential to go from living day-to-day to surviving day-to-day or we can bypass this and move more towards interacting on a humanistic level. Turning are current climatic hardships and struggles into opportunities which leads to us sustainably evolving. It is our intention to help with this transition by hosting online dialogue sessions in the near future.

“This is an emergency. The timescales are different to those that we regularly respond to, but if we don’t act, the consequences are horrendous.” – Paul Netherton, Deputy Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police, leader of the newly formed Devon Climate Impacts Group, United Kingdom

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Maxine Hong Kingston
“In a time of destruction, create something.”
David Suzuki
“If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.”
Christian de Duve
“The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.”
Frances Beinecke
“I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue – it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.”
Al Gore
“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you, and climate change is one of those exceptions.”
Barack Obama
“The shift to a cleaner energy economy won’t happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way.”
Ban Ki-moon
“Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course”.
Juan Manuel Santos
“Anybody who doesn’t see the impact of climate change is really, and I would say, myopic. They don’t see the reality. It’s so evident that we are destroying Mother Earth. This is not the problem of one country or a few countries: it is the problem of mankind. We need to work together to stop this. Otherwise, our future generations will simply disappear.”
Yuval Noah Harari
“We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. And if you don’t have some kind of global cooperation, nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it’s climate change or whether it’s technological disruption.”
Ban Ki-moo
“The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels and we need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.”
Sir Nicholas Stern
“Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.”
Noam Chomsky
“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.”
Terri Swearingen
“We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to.”
David King
“Climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism.”
Marco Lambertini
“A planet being pushed to the edge will eventually turn on us.”
Paul Krugman
“The planet will continue to cook.”
Aldo Leopold
“The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy – it is already too late for that – but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.”
Wallace Broecker
“The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.”
Al Gore
“We are running out of time, and we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.”