Mitigation is instituting policies to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius and help us share and caretake the earth with other people and other creatures.
The urgency of climate change often makes it feel like the window for effective action is closing rapidly, but it's important to remember that it's not too late for climate mitigation. Every action taken today has the potential to reduce future impacts and steer us toward a more sustainable future.
Adaptation is giving up on limiting global heating and accepting the destruction of our agricultural lands in the midwest and the flooding of our coasts, like NY and Los Angeles. That flooding will necessitate those populations moving inland and the rebuilding of trillions of dollars of infrastructure owing to the destruction of property that will have to be written off the book owing to massive losses due to natural causes, but the natural cause will be the US —this is ONLY in the US globally it looks even worse.
Tell your politicians that you want mitigation for climate change and organize towards that goal. You CAN do it. We have the tools to stop global heating.
Policies
• Fossil Fuel divest– move your bank to a nonfossil fuel bank
• 30-hour workweek
• Remove parking minimums—so we can build more housing and walkable commerce!
• Institute measures to dissuade sprawl in your region
• Land Trusts
• Affordable housing within your city's political boundaries
• Co-operative, affordable, accessible, DENSE housing development in Center Cities
• Land based pubic financing
• Massive investment in solar, wind, and fusion
• Massive investment in mass transit to encourage dense growth.
• Policies that dismantle defacto residential housing
• Card Check Neutrality
• Universal health care
• Universal education through college
• Re-evaluate the role of police and move many of their functions to social services.
• Drug decriminalization, liberty, and justice for drug possession, expunge the record, and recompense for incarceration.
• Converting family farms into the Kibbutz model.
• Public Parks that have country club amenities like pools, tennis courts, and exercise rooms.
Fossil Fuel-Free Banks
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MariSol Federal Credit Union (HQ: Arizona) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Alamerica Bank (HQ: Alabama) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Southern Bancorp (HQ: Arkansas) | Impact: B-Corp, GABV | See profile | Website | Get started now
Beneficial State Bank (HQ: California) | Impact: B-Corp, GABV, Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Clean Energy Credit Union (HQ: Colorado) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Cencap Federal Credit Union (HQ: Connecticut) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Carver State Bank (HQ: Georgia) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Decorah Bank and Trust Company (HQ: Iowa) | Impact: GABV | See profile | Website
Androscoggin Savings Bank (HQ: Maine) | Impact: B-Corp | See profile | Website
Berkshire Bank (HQ: Massachusetts) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Hope Federal Credit Union (HQ: Mississippi) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Sunrise Banks (HQ: Minnesota) | Impact: B-Corp, GABV | See profile | Website
Lead Bank (HQ: Missouri) | Impact: GABV, Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Clearwater Credit Union (HQ: Montana) | Impact: GABV | See profile | Website
Piscataqua Savings Bank (HQ: New Hampshire) | Impact: B-Corp, Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Mascoma Bank (HQ: New Hampshire) | Impact: B-Corp | See profile | Website
Centinel Bank of Taos (HQ: New Mexico) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Amalgamated Bank (HQ: New York) | Impact: B-Corp, GABV, Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Brooklyn Coop Federal Credit Union (HQ: New York) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Carver Federal Savings Bank (HQ: New York) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website | Get started online now
Lower East Side Peoples Federal Credit Union (HQ: New York) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free| See profile | Website
Neighborhood Trust Federal Credit Union (HQ: New York) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Ponce Bank (HQ: New York) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website | Get started now
Spring Bank (HQ: New York) | Impact: B-Corp, Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
M&F Bank (HQ: North Carolina) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Self-Help Federal Credit Union (HQ: North Carolina) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
Self-Help Credit Union (HQ: North Carolina) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website
National Cooperative Bank (HQ: Ohio) | Impact: GABV, Fossil fuel-free | See profile | Website| Apply online for an account now
Optus Bank (HQ: South Carolina) | Impact: Fossil fuel-free | Website
Brattleboro Savings & Loan (HQ: Vermont) | Impact: B-Corp | See profile | Website
Vermont State Employees Credit Union (HQ: Vermont) | Impact: GABV | See profile | Website
Virginia Community Capital (HQ: Virginia) | Impact: B-Corp | See profile | Website
City First Bank (HQ: Washington, DC) | Impact: B-Corp, GABV | See profile | Website
Verity Credit Union (HQ: Washington) | Impact: GABV | See profile | Website