What Could Possibly Go Right? #20 Tzeporah Berman: Racing Against the Clock
Tzeporah Berman has been designing environmental campaigns and working on environmental policy in Canada and beyond for over twenty years. She currently is International Program Director at Stand.Earth. She is an Adjunct Professor of York University Faculty of Environmental Studies and works as a strategic advisor to a number of First Nations, environmental organizations and philanthropic foundations on climate and energy issues.
Tzeporah’s thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right? include:
- That we have the highest level of engagement around climate change than ever, as the former “invisible threat for the future” becomes tangible with impacts in our daily lives.
- That recent changes in technology, renewable energy pricing and engagement from civil society is creating political space for decision makers to actually act and stand up to the fossil fuel industry.
- The creation of a new global Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, “a campaign for something that is commensurate with the scale of the actual problem” and addresses fossil fuel production, not only emissions.
- That moving to renewable energy is also about redistributing power; an entirely different model than that of fossil fuels on which industrial society was built.
- That social change isn’t linear and many great moments in history happen at tipping points.
- That more people lose their homes today as a result of climate change than war.
- “We need big bold breakthroughs, because we are racing against the clock… This is our moment to propose some significant bold shifts and new ideas to change the landscape.”
Resources
- FossilFuelTreaty.org
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