By Tom & Carol Braford
In his new book by the above title, Tom Steyer, the billionaire technology investor who ran for President on a climate platform in 2020, says that we are winning the climate war, but we are not going far enough fast enough to avoid catastrophic damage along the way. He is out to recruit and support an army of what he calls Climate People – people who are willing to pay the frustration tax of not being an insider by being walk-ons for the climate solutions that they are committed to.
He says you must be willing to tell people around you that an incremental approach is great, but wholly inadequate. We must do much more, sooner. The Biden administration has committed us to 100% renewables by 2035, and Congress has backed that up with $50B in climate innovation loan funding. A colleague of Tom’s, Jigar Shah, asked rhetorically, “Can we do big things again?” Our answer at ICB is, YES!
We invite you to join us in using your gifts to move our project ahead and make St. Louis and the world better by being part of the Just Post Carbon Communities of Practice movement.
This will turn the tables on the carbon footprint shaming that status quo development has used to take the responsibility off their backs and put it on the individual consumer.
We invite you to join us and your future neighbors and worker co-op owners in rolling out a post carbon contagious lifestyle that we all can be authentically proud of as it naturally becomes endemic in our region and then pandemic in the world, contributing greatly to a downward spiral of carbon footprint and upward spiral of sustainable prosperity everywhere.
We can be the ones we have been waiting for! We can be walk-ons for a just sustainable climate future. We no longer need to wait for big utilities and big status quo development to give us what is wanted and needed now. We can take our own future and that of our children, civilization and the planet into our own hands.
Let climate evolution begin and let it begin here and now in a neighborhood near you!
Contact: braford@sbcglobal.net
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