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In Creating Science-Based Climate Legislation 

"The groundbreaking 2018 IPCC report clearly says that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will require “a rapid escalation in the scale and pace of the transition” to renewable energy and that such an unprecedented transition will require "public sector interventions" - in other words, government legislation."

Visit Change The Chamber to see a list of policies to address the climate crisis compiled in consultation with sustainability experts. These are the no-brainers of science-based climate policy. 

Join your Stan State Eco-Warriors in the student-led #LobbyForClimate #ChangeTheChamber using social media to encourage multi-national corporations to support good climate legislation.

Sustainability pursues justice across economic, social, and environmental dimensions. The Eco-Warriors promote awareness and sustainable practices across these three dimensions on campus and within the community. We are committed to empowering our peers with knowledge and resources to participate and lead within the sustainability movement. We focus on three pillars that represent how our student organization can best bring about change.

Leadership: The young adults of today will be the leaders of tomorrow. Our goal is to empower students of Stanislaus State and give them the resources to pursue sustainable outcomes.

Diversity: Diverse representation is necessary, because of the sheer variety of perspectives and methods surrounding sustainability. We want to grow our own culture of sustainability while retaining the personality and history of all individuals. We respect and encourage dialogue between all cultural elements: generational, ethnic, political, and spiritual.

Action: Justice cannot be pursued without action. Action is about personal and collective responsibility for our environment and fellow humans. The Eco-Warriors is a democratic organization whose power comes from the motivation and values of all who are engaged. From small individual feats to grand collective change, your actions always matter. 

How to get involved

Become an active member and participate

As an active member, you will have the opportunity to be a part of sustainability projects on campus and in the community.

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Climate Action Now! is a student organization at Stanislaus State committed to helping build student and public pressure to enact as quickly as possible the scientific recommendations contained in the emergency warning on the CLIMATE CRISIS issued by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Oct. 8, 2018. It is equally committed to the conclusions and recommendations expressed in the three interrelated emergency warnings issued in 2019 by the IPCC and its sister UN-affiliated body, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)—and to the additional cry for immediate action announced by the IPCC in August 2021.

These emergency warnings together make it plain that we cannot merely continue doing business as usual, regardless of what politicians, pundits and the fossil fuel industry that funds all too many of them have to say. We face the growing likelihood of runaway warming if we do not act, with the existential result for life on Earth such warming risks. We do not question the peer-reviewed science of the overwhelming majority of climate scientists involved in these UN warnings. Rather, we recognize with them that the CLIMATE CRISIS is on par with or exceeds the most serious crisis humanity has ever faced.

Greenhouse gas emissions must be rapidly cut back to around 45% of current levels by 2030, starting immediately, and must be phased out completely by 2050, if we hope to avoid warming beyond 1.5°C. At present we are on pace to rocket past 2°C, and as these reports note, as the global average temperature rises the effects for life on Earth get increasingly more serious—even catastrophic—including more frequent storms, hurricanes and tornadoes, of greater intensity and duration. Likewise for droughts, which are getting drier, lasting longer and coming more frequently.

Melting glaciers, arctic and Antarctic ice, higher sea levels and greater storm surges threaten to cause the collapse of coastal and delta communities around the world. All this at a time when increasingly fascistic “populist” movements have produced a racist, xenophobic and often violent response to increasing numbers of climate-crisis refugees and migrants—numbers which will only grow as the crisis worsens.

We can humanely confront this challenge—we can come out of the dark tunnel we seem to now inhabit, using the real need for emergency change to help create a better world with rational hopes for a better future for all. We may not be able to end the crisis, but we can manage the human response to it far better than those who now control it. There is plenty of hope, but a strong movement—also encompassing social and racial justice since studies show the poorest and most oppressed among us are hardest hit—must be built to make it happen!

Even the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration estimated in 2016 that converting to 100% alternative energy could be accomplished in 15 years! A set of proposals like Bernie Sanders’ Green New Deal can help us rapidly transition to alternative energy production, electric transportation and agroecological methods of food production that can effectively halt greenhouse gas emissions—while increasing employment, providing health care for all and job retraining for those who need it.

CAN! seeks to stimulate discussion, education and organization on and off campus to build a movement for a Green New Deal and to encourage study of the continuing social and economic changes we need to build a sustainable future for life on Earth. There is no doubt about the nature of the problem or the steps needed to resolve it. Scientific consensus about the origin and solution to the crisis has surpassed the 97% it long was and has now reached near unanimity – 99%.

If you believe in science, believe this: you are needed in the fight to build the movement to address the CLIMATE CRISIS! Add your voice to the efforts of Climate Action Now!

How to get involved

To stay in touch with events sponsored by Climate Action Now! visit us on Warrior Life or follow us on:

Facebook @climateactionnowstanstate

Instagram @stanstatecan

Twitter @StanStateCAN

– Or email us at stanstatecan@hotmail.com

Updated: August 28, 2023