Targets National Grid
Climate Action RI
As part of a series of thousands of protests sponsored by 350.org and taking place in cities and towns around the world this Saturday, Climate Action Rhode Island (CARI), the Rhode Island affiliate of 350.org, is holding a rally and march to protest the inaction by Rhode Island utility giant National Grid and by our local and national leadership in the face of the ongoing climate disaster caused by the failure to move away from fossil fuels.
As part of this international
protest, Rhode Island’s event will begin adjacent to this Saturday’s Waterfire
event which is being sponsored by National Grid:
Saturday September 8, 2018 at
6:00 pm
at the Roger Williams Memorial site at 282 North Main Street in Providence
Our event will include a march
and other forms of dramatic protest for the attention of folks attending
Waterfire as well as our political and business leadership.
While the climate crisis is accelerating out of control, we are going backwards: National Grid is pushing to build an LNG facility on the Providence shoreline near low-income residential areas, and our political leaders are considering building a plant in Burrillville powered by natural gas produced via fracking.
But what is required locally and
nat ionally are dramatic steps to move away from fossil fuels and instead move
to serious, long-term solutions such as renewable energy sources, dramatic
conservation policies, carbon taxes, etc. There is no time for business as
usual.
The climate crisis poses an
existential threat to humanity and to Rhode Island in particular, and our
survival depends on taking bold action to ratchet down carbon emissions by
quickly ending our dependence on fossil fuels, and thus move our society
towards an environmentally sustainable future.
The CARI website: https://world.350.org/rhodeisland/. The 350.org website is https://350.org
of course.
