Bioneer, President Biden’s Earth Day announcement of new 2030 climate goals represents a major turning point in U.S. climate policy. It is easily the most ambitious commitment this country has made, but the jury is still out in terms of both the climate reality and the political reality. Perhaps the most important question, however, is not if we can accomplish these audacious goals but how. As it turns out, answering this fundamental question is what leaders and activists have been outlining at Bioneers Conferences for decades. And, Bill Gates’ desire for fancy new technology notwithstanding, the vast majority of what we need is very much already in existence. Among the pathways forward are transforming how we power our economy, how we move around the world, how we grow food and how we care for our landscapes, all with a clear racial justice and equity lens. Undergirding everything is the need for the effective grassroots organizing and movement-building that brought us to this point. And, at root, a reckoning with the very economic system that delivered climate change is coming hard and fast. In this newsletter we highlight just a few of the projects and solutions that will need to be leveraged if we’re to achieve our climate goals. |