It’s never been clearer 350 org

Dear friend,

Never before has the need to divest and keep fossil fuels in the ground been so clear!

Just last week, a groundbreaking report in the prestigious journal Nature stated what we’ve known all along – the vast majority of oil, coal and gas must stay in the ground if we are to have any chance of a liveable future.[1]

In Australia, this translates to at least 90% of our coal needing to stay in the ground. But as the science speaks louder than ever, our politicians are determined to bury their heads in the sand and let the fossil fuel industry dictate their decisions.

And this is why, now more than ever, we need you to join us on February 13 – 14 to divest from fossil fuels as part of Global Divestment Day.

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The fossil fuel industry’s plans fly in the face of logic and science. They know that their business-model has us committed to an unthinkable future yet they’re prepared to go right ahead and rip out as much fossil fuel as they can to turn a profit, before it’s too late.

This December, world leaders will head to Paris for what may be their last real attempt at forging a global climate deal. What we do between now and then will set the stage for those negotiations and help reduce the power of the fossil fuel lobby to hijack our future.

Now is the time to show our leaders that we expect them to rise to the occasion — and that the people are rising too.

See you on the streets in February!

Charlie

[1] The Nature paper estimates that a third of the world’s oil reserves, half its gas reserves and 80% of its coal reserves must be left untouched to avert 2 degrees of warming – an extremely dangerous level of global warming. At present we are on course for around five degrees of warming by the end of the century.

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