The Boundless Love Project’s Call to Action on Climate Change

(Taken straight from our bylaws)

Because time is short and of the essence, and the fruits of inaction have dire global consequences, we clearly state our position on climate change: Climate change is real; it is human caused; it is already negatively impacting people, animals, and other life forms; and humanity needs to prioritize taking bold, decisive, and dramatic action now to protect our climate, our communities, and the health and safety of future generations.

If you believe climate change is not real, or not human caused, or that it is pointless or foolhardy to respond to it, we lovingly encourage you to mindfully and compassionately read the evidence and some opposing views with an open mind. These articles may be a good place to start:

· Caltech’s What is the evidence for human-caused climate change?

· The Environmental Defense Fund’s 9 ways we know humans caused climate change.

· The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s What evidence exists that Earth is warming and that humans are the main cause?

· The Union of Concerned Scientist’s How do we know that humans are the major cause of global warming?

· CBS News’ Jeff Berardelli’s NASA measures direct evidence humans are causing climate change.

· Yale Climate Connections’ Samantha Harrington’s Scientists agree: Climate change is real and caused by people.

It may be heart-breaking to admit that out of greed, delusion, and convenience, we are destroying the planet and climate that has allowed us and our animal relations to thrive for so long. Thankfully, we live in a lawful universe. If we plant seeds of loving actions to protect our climate, those seeds will lawfully bear fruit.

To effectively protect our climate and the health and wellbeing of future generations, we need collective actions and solutions. We applaud all individuals who lovingly eat a vegan diet, refrain from flying and driving, and live a materialistically simple life. We also recognize that we need to take systemic action.

We must encourage federal, state, and local governments; communities; industries; and individuals to do the following:

1. Transition as quickly as possible to a 100% renewable energy system based on solar, wind, and other climate-friendly, healthy, and sustainable energy sources. At the same time, ensure that new energy infrastructure emits the least amount of electromagnetic fields (EMF) possible for the health and benefit of the general public, wildlife, and all life.

2. Leave coal, oil, natural gas, and other fossil fuels in the ground.

3. Shift our country’s laws, subsidies, commodities, foreign policy, and similar programs so they no longer support, promote, and encourage climate-harming animal food production and fossil fuel extraction, promotion, and use. Instead, we must create laws, subsidies, commodities programs, foreign policy, and other governmental and intergovernmental programs to support, promote, and encourage the adoption of 100% renewable energy sources and the production and consumption of organic plant foods.

4. Transform our transportation system so it is 100% electrically powered by wind, solar, and other clean, sustainable, renewable energies. At the same time, ensure that vehicles produced emit the least amounts of EMF possible to safeguard the public, wildlife, and all life.

5. Drastically reduce the manufacture and use of plastics. Made from fossil fuels, they contribute to climate change while also polluting our bodies, lands, oceans, and waterways.

6. Provide financial, educational, moral, and other helpful support to help workers and their families affected by these changes both thrive and successfully transition into new careers.

7. Use international agreements, laws, subsidies, and other incentives to require – or at least encourage – all scientists working on new technologies that deter climate change to share their research openly with each other and work collaboratively to speed up innovation and find solutions now.

8. Encourage each of us to do what we can to decrease our ecological footprint, eat more plant foods, use fewer fossil fuels, and consume fewer resources; while also helping our schools, workplaces, places of worship, and other collectives we belong to do the same.

9. Do whatever other skillful activities are necessary to implement the above plan and protect and save our climate for the health and wellbeing of ourselves and future generations.