Sentences with phrase «scale mobilization»

Maybe a paper can help kick - start a WWII - scale mobilization.

In an era of catastrophic gradualism and lethal cowardice, Florida congressional candidate Tim Canova has taken a tremendously courageous stand for climate truth and justice in his call for a World War II - scale mobilization that eliminates net greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and restores a safe climate.

«Democratic Platform Committee members voted in favor of an historic amendment categorizing climate change as a global emergency requiring a World War II - scale mobilization.

It's now well understood that what's needed to stop this unfolding apocalypse is an emergency transformation of the global economy — a WWII - scale mobilization to rapidly restore a stable climate and reverse ecological overshoot.

3) Demand that Hillary Clinton advocate an emergency, WWII - scale mobilization to restore a safe climate in exchange for your endorsement, if you do not win the nomination.

We must loudly speak the truth of the critical climate emergency we are facing and the World War II - scale mobilization needed to address it.»

The concept of rapid, full - scale mobilization against global warming is a hard sell; dramatic actions are normally driven by immediate threats, not distant, uncertain trends.

Authors of the study hope future studies will investigate the effects of other documentary films and see why some films lead to large - scale mobilizations and others do not.

Not exact matches

John Platt makes a passionate plea for an immediate, large - scale, emergency mobilization of the best scientific talent available to work at the imminent crises of war, population, hunger, and pollution that threaten our very existence.

In that briefing note, we identify five entry points for sustainability standards to contribute to the development of these approaches and ensure their integrity and complementarity: preferential or risk - based sourcing; land use planning; government and stakeholder mobilization; producer support at scale; and leveraging finance.

Second, and significantly, knowing every single piece of information about relationships at scale allows for incredibly well - coordinated engagement and organizing strategies, pathway and leadership development, the empowerment of new local leaders, and, most importantly, the mobilization of activists.

Obama For America pioneered modern digital organizing in 2012, coupled with mobilization at scale, but even they failed to build a national engagement database, complete with every conversation volunteers were having with voters on the ground.

He urged assemblies to scale up their revenue mobilization strategies and database development to aid their quest to achieve the contract objectives.

Their time scales for mobilization are not really all that different, so I personally don't see hydrates as scarier than frozen organic matter.

A non-incremental policy shift on the scale with welfare reform, health care, or immigration reform, not only requires the mobilization of massive financial resources, as Greens accomplished in 2009 - 10, but also the mass mobilization of public opinion.

This analytical report proposes that the scaling up of renewable energy to levels that would have a significant impact on the African energy scene could be achieved through deliberate interventions on policy and institutional environment; technology acquisition, development and integration; investment mobilization; and regional integration, networking, and capacity building.

We need a societal mobilization and technological transformation at a speed and scale that has few if any peacetime precedents.

A full - scale climate mobilization would heed Pope Francis's directive to «hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor!»

While the need for an emergency, WWII - scale climate mobilization is a hidden consensus among climate leaders and thinkers, not even the mainstream climate movement is fully prepared to demand one.

If we're to scale to the necessary global mobilization at anything like the necessary speed, we're going to need a lot more than Paris can possibly deliver.

«This heroic campaign shall be carried out on a vast scale, transforming our economy at wartime speed,» The Climate Mobilization writes, because «climate change is causing immense human suffering and damage to the natural world.

Ezra Silk, Deputy Director and Head of Organising at the American organisation The Climate Mobilization, explained in an interviewed in The Green Report on RT America what they mean when they talk about a World War Two - scale mobilisation:

The only conceivable way to produce that level of reductions is a full - scale, all - hands - on - deck mobilization, what William James called «the moral equivalent of war.»

The platform acknowledges the scale of the threat to be so large that it will require a leadership response from our country on the scale of our national mobilization to confront the threat of fascism during World War II.

If we are going to have a future, we will need hundreds of principled politicians like Tim Canova for Congress fighting for the national WWII - scale climate mobilization required to save civilization and the natural world.

Russell Greene and David Braun describe the need for a WWII scale climate mobilization, and their amendment is successfully adopted.

Delaying the peak year even further to 2020 could necessitate global emissions reduction rates of up to 9 % per year — i.e. reductions on an almost inconceivable scale, entailing technological feats and social sacrifices on a scale comparable to those of the Allied mobilization during the Second World War.26

This is why I have taken the Climate Mobilization Pledge in support of a program on the scale of the World War II mobilization of human, industrial, and financial resources to restore a sMobilization Pledge in support of a program on the scale of the World War II mobilization of human, industrial, and financial resources to restore a smobilization of human, industrial, and financial resources to restore a safe climate.

We also can't dismiss arguments by Frank Ackerman and others that the «fat tail» of climate worst - cases demands national mobilization on a scale that only government action can generate.

Democrats, on the other hand, «are committed to a national mobilization, and to leading a global effort to mobilize nations to address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II.»