: Visions of Climate Futures.
(As previewed inProject 2025.)
And one can only guess what else will transpire.
Volunteers in a salt marsh, with Boston in view behind them, on International Coastal Cleanup Day, in September 2022.Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images
The constitutionality of these orders will be challenged in court, and some require congressional action.
So, whats a citizen of Planet Earth to do?
These hazards arent just future predictions.
Forty percentof Americans live in coastal counties.
Twenty percent of Americans one-in-five live in coastal cities, andthe demographicsare far from elite.
(Example: Portland, MainesOne Climate Future Plan.)
They are ensuring coastal development does not destroy wetlands, ecosystems which can offermore cost-effectivecoastal protection than seawalls.
(Example: BostonsWetlands Protection Ordinance.)
(Example: New York CitysComprehensive Waterfront Plan.)
They are fostering local resilience in partnership with community-based organizations embracingsocial cohesion as a climate strategy.
(Example: OaklandsEquitable Climate Action Plan.)
(Example: CharlestonsFlooding and Sea Level Rise Strategy.)
Fundamentally, preventing this administration from destroying our democratic institutions is critical to addressing the climate crisis.
Still, there is so much city and state governments can do to implement climate solutions without federal support.
(See, for example: single-use plastic, fast fashion, composting, and factory farming.)
To call the retrograde direction of our federal climate policy inconvenient would be an extreme euphemism.
Well, here we are.
And, to quote poet June Jordan, we are the ones weve been waiting for.
