https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a-mysterious-patch-of-light-shows-up-in-the-north-dakota-dark
What we have here is an immense and startlingly new oil and gas field — nighttime evidence of an oil boom created by a technology called fracking.
Those lights are rigs, hundreds of them, lit at night, or fiery flares of natural gas.
One hundred fifty oil companies, big ones, little ones, wildcatters, have flooded this region, drilling up to eight new wells every day on what is called the Bakken formation. Altogether, they are now producing 660,000 barrels a day — double the output two years ago — so that in no time at all, North Dakota is now the second-largest oil producing state in America. Only Texas produces more, and those lights are a sign that this region is now on fire ... to a disturbing degree. Literally.
Skolstrejk för klimatetat - Global Climate Strike EVERY FRIDAY - a Worldwide ECO-ACTION! - Greta Thunberg says: “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System” #ClimateStrike
Link to an Interview on The Democracy Now! TV News Show with Amy Goodman...
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/11/greta_thunberg_swedish_activist_climate_crisis
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by gregvan
American History: What Happened in 2019...
DC CLIMATE STRIKE – SHUT DOWN BUSINESS-AS-USUAL... Youth leaders from around the world have called for a climate strike and global week of action from September 20th-27th. They have been taking the lead so far, but now they are calling on all of us to take action. In Washington, DC we will be answering the call and building on the momentum of the youth climate strikes in a major way:
On September 23rd,
We are going to Shut Down Washington, DC.
We will block key infrastructure to stop business-as-usual, bringing the whole city to a gridlocked standstill. Parents, workers, college students, and everyone who is concerned about the climate crisis will skip work and school and put off their other responsibilities to take action on the climate crisis.
https://www.strikedc.org/
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/11/greta_thunberg_swedish_activist_climate_crisis
"Make America Greta Again"
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100% of My Profits Donated To Charity...
Climate Change is Real and We All ought to DO SOMETHING... I don't own a Car... Rarely do I travel... except that I walk all over the place... every day... I use UBER when I need to go a longer distance... and... STOPPED FLYING IN JET AIRPLANES Totally!
Make America Greta Again Embroidered Baseball Cap
by gregvan
American History: What Happened in 2019...
DC CLIMATE STRIKE – SHUT DOWN BUSINESS-AS-USUAL... Youth leaders from around the world have called for a climate strike and global week of action from September 20th-27th. They have been taking the lead so far, but now they are calling on all of us to take action. In Washington, DC we will be answering the call and building on the momentum of the youth climate strikes in a major way:
On September 23rd,
We are going to Shut Down Washington, DC.
We will block key infrastructure to stop business-as-usual, bringing the whole city to a gridlocked standstill. Parents, workers, college students, and everyone who is concerned about the climate crisis will skip work and school and put off their other responsibilities to take action on the climate crisis.
https://www.strikedc.org/
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What are the climate strikes—and how did they get started?
In August 2018, then-15-year-old Greta Thunberg began skipping school every day to protest in front of Sweden’s parliament in the weeks before the Swedish general election. She demanded climate legislation that would bring Sweden in line with the Paris Agreement (keeping global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels). After the election, Thunberg continued to skip school to strike on Fridays, inspiring thousands of young people worldwide to follow suit. Since Thunberg’s Friday strikes, youth around the world have protested in front of their local legislatures on Fridays in solidarity, beginning the #FridaysForFuture movement.
In a culmination of all their efforts, strikers from 117 countries are calling for massive global climate action, by everyone, on September 20th and again on September 27th—a full week of concentrated action that the strikers are calling the #WeekForFuture movement.
https://www.chatelaine.com/living/global-climate-strike-canada-2019/
Greta Thunberg To U.S.: 'You Have A Moral Responsibility' On Climate Change. She says her message for President Trump is the same thing she tells other politicians: Listen to science, and take responsibility.
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760538254/greta-thunberg-to-u-s-you-have-a-moral-responsibility-on-climate-change
Tumblr, Kickstarter, WordPress, and BitTorrent are among the companies to support the Global Climate Strike by donating ad space or shutting down their websites
The youth-led global climate strike scheduled for next Friday has already secured a number of corporate backers, and now the campaign is going online.
A number of the world's most popular and influential websites announced this week that they will help to promote the strike, pledging to spread the word on social media, put banners on their websites to signal support for the strikes, and in some cases shut down their operations.
https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3081528/websites-join-climate-strike
Why People Worldwide Will Be Walking Off The Job Later This Month. The Global Climate Strike hopes to draw attention to the worsening climate crisis.
https://www.chatelaine.com/living/global-climate-strike-canada-2019/
1,000 Amazon Employees Are Joining Global Climate Strike.
https://www.ecowatch.com/global-climate-strike-amazon-employees-2640285733.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
https://www.ecowatch.com/global-climate-strike-amazon-employees-2640285733.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1