HomeMy WebLinkAboutEmail from Jorge Rebagliati - Climate Change Major Disaster Declaration Menchaca, Clarissa
From: Clerk of the Board
Sent: Tuesday,July 25, 2017 8:44 PM
To: Menchaca, Clarissa
Subject: FW: From Jorge Rebagliati: CLIMATE CHANGE MAJOR DISASTER DECLARATION
From: Jorge Rebagliati
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 8:44:04 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US&Canada)
To: Connelly, Bill; Wahl, Larry; Kirk, Maureen; BOS District 4; Teeter, Doug; Clerk of the Board
Subject: : From Jorge Rebagliati: CLIMATE CHANGE MAJOR DISASTER DECLARATION
Butte County Board of Supervisors
Dear Sirs:
This last Winter your community was put at the edge of
Climate Change catastrophic consequences.
We are offering a solution to protect you from future Climate
Change-related threats.
Please read the presentation below and join the movement as
offered at the end of this presentation.
TO SUCCEED WE NEED EVERYBODY ON BOARD NOW.
Please contact me at the phone number below if you have any
questions or if you wish to meet to discuss this proposal.
"The recent disastrous weather Winter events and the 500-year
drought consequences we endured for five years are the proof that
California is not doing enough to protect life, property and the
environment from Climate Change.
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We must stop kicking the can down the road and massively invest
and mobilize to make a relevant contribution to the RESTORATION
of the Climate and to ADAPTATION to minimize the effects of the
Climate Change-related catastrophes to come.
Climate Change has reached the level of Major Disaster. Climate
Change could have been better defined as an Emergency, in the
early 1980s, when the world scientists asked the nations of the
world (particularly the industrialized countries) to reduce
Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions by 2-3% every year to avoid
creating a very hazardous new Climate.
Now, Climate Change is a Major Disaster that spins out disasters that each
year grow in number and intensity. Climate Change is a Source Major
Disaster that is quickly getting out of control and in the near future can
become unstoppable.
We have identified a political strategy to get California fully focused on
Climate Change. Governors have the executive power to issue emergency
and disaster declarations, so California Governor Jerry Brown can do
exactly that, without the participation of the State Legislature, and can
request for Federal resources, as allowed by the Stafford Act.
A very recent event that is an example of how that insufficient Climate
Change Action is making California very vulnerable, is the near-collapse
of the Oroville Dam that could have killed 200,000 Californians and
destroyed thousands of acres, including the towns of Yuba City, Oroville,
Marysville and Plumas Lake. Climate Change provided the enormous
atmospheric rivers and the State of California had a dam that had not been
built and maintained to withstand so much water.
That was a very close call that, not only could have caused the greatest
catastrophe in California history, but would have severely damaged the
reputation of California and of the California government. At the same
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time, the 1,600 miles of levees in the Central Valley were at risk, even
threatening the flooding of Sacramento itself.
Every day that the California government does not
make Climate Change Action the number one priority,
is a day closer to great losses of life, property and the
environment.
Climate Change is a Major Disaster with many undesirable consequences,
but Climate Change is also the greatest opportunity for us to become a
prosperous model of the economy for the 21 st century, where our society
rallies around a constructive goal of essential importance to all of us,
breaking away from the current destructive paradigm of "The Profit
Of The Corporations Is All That Matters" or "The Profits Of
Corporations And The Ultra Rich Far Outweighs Other Priorities".
While the forces of Nature potentiated by the New Climate are banging at
our doors, most of the Climate Change Action organizations are still
mainly focusing on getting more people to AGREE THAT CLIMATE
CHANGE IS REAL, and proposing INCREMENTAL AND, OFTEN
INDIRECT, CHANGES to deal with Climate Change. Most of them are
still content with A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
When the passenger liner TITANIC was sinking, teaching swimming
lessons to the passengers would have been a step in the right direction
but it would have not solved the disaster that was about to happen. YOU
GET THE POINT.
If you share our vision, please join our campaign by 1) signing our online
petition "CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR: DECLARE CLIMATE CHANGE
A MAJOR DISASTER BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE", 2) lobbying the
Governor to issue a Climate Change Major Disaster Declaration and 3)
issuing your own public Climate Change Major Disaster Declaration
and encourage other organizations and individuals to do the same.
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The (your organization's name) public declaration could be:
"In consideration of the catastrophic Climate Change-related events
in California, the nation and the whole Earth, and of the accelerated
worsening of the indicators of Climate Change, such as CO2 levels
in the atmosphere, global average air temperature rises and the
melting of permanent ice sheets, the (ORGANIZATION) Declares
Climate Change a Major Disaster and calls for an official
Climate Change Major Disaster Declaration by Californian
Governor Merry Brown for the immediate commitment of all the
necessary State and Federal resources to RESTORE the Climate
to a former beneficial equilibrium, and to implement the
ADAPTATION work to minimize the impact of coming Climate
Change-related events in California."
As in most major issues, the other States and the rest of the world
are looking to California for leadership to solve the Climate Change
crisis. LET'S ACCEPT THIS GREAT RESPONSIBILITY BY
SHOWING THE WAY TO A REAL SOLUTION AND BY WADING
HUMANITY UP FROM THE FALSE HOPES OF MIRAGE
SOLUTIONS LIKE THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT CST 2015."
Jorge Rebagliati
707-573-0049
Santa Rosa, CA, 95403
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