The world over, proper now, together with right here in Canada, billionaires, oligarchs, and companies are utilizing their wealth to silence dissent, undo a long time of social and environmental progress, and manipulate the sport of their favour.
Within the first 100 days of his second time period, President Trump has actively dismantled and weakened environmental safety and gone after those that combat to guard our nature and local weather, with relentless assaults on democratic establishments and public protections, placing company earnings and energy for him and his billionaire pals forward of individuals and planet and our future.
The Trump administration has not solely left the Paris Local weather settlement and supplied Alaskan wilderness to grease drilling. He has additionally opened up pristine and guarded marine ecosystems within the Pacific to industrial fishing and needs to launch deep sea mining in US and Worldwide waters. And whereas he exempted oil and fuel merchandise from the common tariff earlier in April, he has ended investments in clear vitality and as a substitute boosted coal, oil and fuel by weakening laws and eradicating obstacles to the fossil gasoline business. [1]
Trump’s greatest allies are a handful of billionaires, and the fossil gasoline firms who’re knowingly burning the planet, polluting our waters, and hurting households and communities all over the world. These company bullies will cease at nothing to maintain their oil and fuel empire alive – even weaponising the authorized system to crush dissent and silence environmental activism.
A key weapon being utilized by the oligarchy towards these advocating for a inexperienced, simply future is SLAPP lawsuits, just like the one waged towards Greenpeace within the US and Greenpeace Worldwide by the fossil gasoline pipeline big Vitality Switch – an organization headed by billionaire and Trump donor Kelcy Warren. In a deeply disappointing verdict, a US jury discovered Greenpeace Worldwide and Greenpeace within the US responsible for over $660 million to Vitality Switch.
For the billionaires and massive oil firms, this isn’t concerning the cash. They merely need to silence the uncomfortable fact: their enterprise fashions are the foundation reason for local weather change and environmental destruction.
Make no mistake: it is a direct assault on our rights and freedoms, on the local weather motion and peaceable protest. However we’ll combat again. Our supporters and allies quantity within the hundreds of thousands, and combat environmental polluters in each nook of the world. Neither a fossil gasoline firm nor every other company bully will silence us.
Right here in Canada, Trump’s drill child drill extractive agenda has its coronary heart set on Canada’s recent waters, minerals and fossil fuels. Premier Doug Ford is already pushing for a CAN-AM deal to speed up the sell-off of Canada’s pure wealth to the U.S., and he’s poised to ram by means of a invoice that might wipe environmental protections off the map – simply to pave the way in which for a similar “shovel-ready zones” Pierre Poilievre has been gunning for.
100 days have passed by. The subsequent 100 days are time for motion: it’s time to withstand Trump and his billionaire bullies. Will you be a part of us?
1. Be taught extra concerning the a number of the different local weather destroying actions Trump has taken in his first 100 Days. https://www.actonclimate.com/trumptracker/
