Thursday, September 22nd, 7:00 p.m.
Despite misinformation
spread by contrarians, man-made climate change is very real, very evident and
looming very large. But the situation isn’t hopeless and we’re still very
much in the driver’s seat, should we decide to take control. Robert Haw, an
engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will illustrate current
manifestations of climate change in easily understood terms, such as sea level
rise, ocean acidification, flooding and droughts, a changing balance among
plants and animals, and the ways in which these changes affect everyone. These accumulating climate stresses
especially hurt those less fortunate, both here and around the world, and our
children.
Moreover, Haw will show that on the economics side of
climate change, if we take control now, the transition to a clean-energy
economy is not only affordable, it’s also a job-creator and a
GDP-booster. This plan is called Carbon
Fee and Dividend. Find out more about this proposal and how it might
help preserve a safe operating space on Earth for humanity on Thursday,
September 22nd at Crowell Public Library. A question and answer
period will follow the presentation, including a discussion of follow-up
actions that you can take.
A
physicist by training and a graduate of Stanford University, Robert Haw has
been employed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 25 years as a navigation
engineer on exploration missions across the solar system. He's currently
working on SMAP, an Earth-orbiting spacecraft designed to monitor soil moisture
levels around the planet. In 2012 Robert
co-founded the Pasadena Foothills chapter of the Citizens Climate Lobby, an
organization exclusively devoted to building the political will for a livable
planet. He has spoken frequently in
Congressional offices to elected representatives and to public audiences in the
Foothill communities about a practical and non-partisan solution to the climate
crisis. The crisis is already too big for individual actions alone to make any
difference in solving it. So how shall
we respond, collectively?
Come learn how to pay for the clean-energy transition
and pay ourselves at the same time!
