"The US is about to make a sharp turn on climate policy," MIT Technology Review, November 6, 2024
Dear friends,
As Election Day fades, we recognize that you are still processing Trump’s reelection and the tumultuous days, weeks and months ahead.
Our hearts remain with our community members. Every one of you is feeling something different, perhaps some things the same. Ours is not to tell how to feel or how to act.
But know this. Sierra Club, and especially the Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter will do the work to protect our planet and its people.
We will help each other along, despite our loss and recognize the meaningful wins we have secured together.
We feel your pain, and we hope you can read though the lines and feel ours.
Together we will rise as we have always. It's not going to be easy, but no one ever said life was.
We just want you to know that we are preparing the fight. "Defend" is what we do. As we anticipate an incoming administration hostile to climate action and environmental protection, we must engage our legal resources and those of our partners. We must slow them down. We must fight them. And we must prevail, doing so strong and defiant, full of of the humanity and the humility that define us.
As the news descended election night, we became worriers.
BUT we will always be in our hearts happy warriors.
We need your help right now. We need your donations, your bodies and your heart to:
• Stop Sable Offshore from restarting the corroded Plains Pipeline and resuming the Exxon Offshore drilling that depoiled Santa Barbara Channel and the Gaviota Coast in 2015.
• Support the Biden-Harris administration's "last acts" including the creation and protection of the new Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary.
• Defend Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park from any and all threats.
• Stop the proposed mining of uranium in the Lake Casitas Watershed of the Los Padres National Forest.
• Uphold the federal endangered species act (ESA), an act which has saved thousands of plants and wildlfe across America including the Calfornia Condor, the California harbor porpoise and the California Least Tern
• Protect and defend local gems like Figueroa Mountain, Topa Topa, Santa Monica Mountains and the the Carrizo Plain.
Please find information below for how you can help today:
Donate to support our chapter volunteers and staff.
Join our monthly gatherings and hikes in your local region:
Meets in person 2nd Tuesday of Each Month
12pm at the CEC Hub (1217 State Street 93101)
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Help us build the nation's model for 100 percent renewable energy.
Help us bend the skyrocketing carbon dioxide line downward just enough to slow down the intensity and number of hurricanes and wildfires.
We still have control to change the future, but we need to use our power now. And if we all work together, we will.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Ullman, Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter Director