Resolution on Climate Catastrophe & Social Change

Passed with amendments 7/25/09

(Originally submitted by Betty Brown, Amended by June 20 Northern California CCDS Annual Membership Meeting)

Whereas, Northern California CCDS members were instrumental in initiating a 1/10 & 11/09 West Coast Regional Conference on the ecological crisis from an Eco-Socialist perspective and

Whereas, wide ranging discussions with relevant experts took place at the conference and

Whereas, the need to struggle for a more equal, more humane, more collective and more sustainable world is urgent, in addition to theorizing support is needed for essential immediate changes:

Therefore be it resolved that CCDS supports:

• drastic and enforceable reduction in the emission of greenhouse gasses
• development of clean energy sources
• elimination of nuclear energy and war spending
• nationalization of the oil, coal, and gas industries
• provision of a universal free public transportation system
• creation of pollution clean-up programs
• solidarity with popular struggles to block the extraction of carbon and uranium, e.g. from Nigeria to Ecuador to Australia to California
• ending subsidies for industrial agriculture, including animal factories
• total mobilization to force worthy climate protocols in Copenhagen in December 2009
• ending the practice of the disproportionate location of toxic materials and industries in communities of color (which is environmental racism) and in low income communities
• federal government takes actions to implement

New Resolution submitted by Northern California CCDS; approved at 6/20/09 Membership Meeting. MSWord Version