He asked Americans to be prudent in their consumption of energy, but called the hurricane a "temporary disruption" to gasoline supplies. "Don't buy gas if you don't need it," the president said.
Subj: Re: [CONS-SPST-GLOBALWARM-CHAIRS] strategy and tactics beyond the summit
Date: 8/22/2005 3:02:45 AM Central Daylight Time
From: [log in to unmask] (Darrell Clarke)
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Good op-ed, Ron. (And thanks, Mark, for highlighting the Hirsch report at
projectcensored.org. That's perhaps the best overall statement of Peak Oil
out there.)
Which brings me to my main point. The Sierra Club has been advocating clean
energy, higher mpg, and reduction in greenhouse emissions for quite awhile,
and as Curt asks, can more of the same make the needed difference?
What's changed is rising gasoline prices as a manifestation of oil demand
exceeding production, and the theory of Peak Oil becoming more generally
known. These can be our leverage.
I see the political system searching for possible solutions to falling oil
supply, and consumers reacting to high prices as they never would have
otherwise. There are two possible paths:
1. The DIRTY path, of drilling everywhere including wilderness and
off-shore, of tar-sands production, of more coal, and renewed nuclear.
2. The CLEAN path, of rapid shift to hybrid, pluggable-hybrid, and electric
vehicles; of reduced driving via transit, less commuting, and ridesharing;
of as-rapid-as-possible expansion of the currently very small share of wind
and solar; of focus on conservation; and on biofuels that have positive
energy return (unlike ethanol from corn).
I would like to see us at the Summit advance the Club's current energy
policy to include:
1. Explicit acknowledgement of Peak Oil (and peak North American natural gas
production) as near-term events that we have no choice but to plan for, and
2. A CLEAN-path energy plan where the numbers add up, that shows how
conservation and renewable sources can close the gap of declining oil and
gas. Credibility comes from quantification.
And then? National announcement of the new Sierra Club plan, combined with
local activism with the public and elected officials, presenting a solution
that is clean and can work, while the government appears to not know what to
do.
These email conversations before the Summit are a great start!
Darrell
Angeles Chapter (Delegate)
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Stephen Crowley
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 8:27 PM
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Subject: [CONS-SPST-GLOBALWARM-CHAIRS] strategy and tactics beyond the
summit
Ron, I agree with what you say here. Nothing currently on the table will
"get the job done." I do think that the CCP effort, which is totally
conceived as a staff/volunteer partnership, by the way, can move us in a
good direction, for several reasons. It can mobilize locally. It can
think globally. It can put a variety of solutions up for grabs. It can
help get past the heals-dug-in resistance to thinking about climate as
something we need to and can do something about. It can get past the
fatalism and resignation that the powers-that-be love to see in their
subjects. It can be a great basis for building coalitions and learning how
to communicate. It can be a foundation for education.
But it is not the only way to do those things, maybe not even the best, but
it can be a very good way to do those things.
But the "job" is enormous. Anyone who tells you they've got the roadmap
all worked out is overly impressed with their own talents.
I do think we can move well down the road toward a strong and cohesive
national strategy. Some of that may come from the deliberative sessions. I
want to be optimistic, but a couple of four hour sessions are not likely to
provide any silver bullets when we're struggling so seriously (externally)
across the board. I have very high hopes (and some optimism) that with our
opportunities to get together as global warming activists and leaders,
along with a buy-in by many others throughout the club, that we can
redefine how we approach these (and maybe some other) issues. I suspect it
may also redefine how we see our roles as GWE leaders (and I do mean staff,
volunteer, local, national, chapter, regionally).
At the summit, we already have a gathering of GWE activist leaders
scheduled for Thursday, prior to the first deliberative session. There is
an emerging plan to do this a second time, at lunchtime on Saturday, which
would be after the second deliberative session. The idea of these two
sessions is first, to ensure that the Club nationally responds
appropriately to the scale of the climate change problem, establishing this
as an overwhelming priority and giving it the resources it needs, and
second, to collaborate among all of us about what that campaign should look
like.
Steve Crowley, GWE chair
At 09:36 PM 8/21/2005, Ron McLinden wrote:
>I don't think doing "more of the same" will get the job done -- and I
>don't know that Roger was implying that it could. Nor am I convinced that
>staff's campaign to pressure mayors who signed the Climate Protection
>Agreement will get the job done either.
>
>Among the big issues we'll need to struggle with at the Summit -- in
>addition to what issues to prioritize -- are
>[1] what strategies and tactics do we adopt for accomplishing our major
>goals, and
>[2] how will staff and volunteers collaborate in that decision-making.
>
>It might get messy, but we'll have to do it.
>
>
>----- Forwarded by Ron McLinden/mg/kcmo on 08/21/2005 08:24 PM -----
>
>Curt Smith <[log in to unmask]>
>
>08/21/2005 08:21 PM
>To [log in to unmask]
>cc
>Subject Re: [CONS-SPST-GLOBALWARM-CHAIRS] Cities for Climate Protection
Campaign
>launch this fall
>
>Roger, you ask a great question. Let me ask this group a deeper question.
>
>Does everyone here feel that if the club would do more of the same, maybe
>only with more vigor, or saying it louder or getting more folks to hold
>signs will finally get W, or state leaders to listen and en-act our goals,
>such that climate certasterphy will be avoided?
>
>Think about your tactics. Did your tactics reach the Governor, Senators,
>President and cause them to change their current course and start planning
>and voting the necessary changes? Small successes are nice, but are
>current club tactics succeeding with the necessary BIG changes that will
>be neccessary to curb and make the corner with GW?
>
>Curt
>GA chapter
>
>Roger Zimmerman wrote:
>
> >What can/should California do here ubeyond current efforts?
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