Climate Change
Steve Raney
March 16, 2014
Climate is the world’s top priority issue in terms of causing the most human suffering and a disproportionate impact on subsistence peoples. For climate, CA state government is the world’s best, with remarkably strong, visionary climate laws/regulations, including a 12-month-old Cap and Trade program. In contrast, our gridlocked national government protects the status quo.
Steve Raney (a volunteer with the Silicon Valley chapter of 350.org, a national volunteer climate activism organization, with Master’s Degrees in business, software, and transportation) will discuss ways the Humanist Community in Silicon Valley can participate in local actions, followed by a campaign to make CA policy national policy.
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Watch a video of Steve’s Presentation below :-
Humanist Community Forum (2014-03-16): Spreading California’s Amazing Climate Protection Nationally (Steve Raney) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.
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