People Power vs. the Climate Crisis: Rise Up & Act Now
đ Grassroots activists are meeting the climate crisis with courage, education, and action. Learn what's happening, who's fighting back, and how to join the movement.
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The movement for grassroots climate action starts here.
The climate crisis is not a distant threat â it is here, right now, bearing down on the communities we fight for every single day. Storms are intensifying. Winters are shrinking. And the leaders who should be sounding the alarm are choosing silence while fossil fuel corporations write the rules. We have seen this playbook before. And we refuse to accept it.
We are a grassroots movement. We do not wait for permission to act. For nearly 250 years, democracy has been the foundation built not by billionaires or kings, but by everyday people who understood that caring for one another and protecting our future go hand in hand. That tradition is ours. That power is ours.
In this post, we break down four urgent climate developments â and we make the case, as we always do, that the answer to the climate crisis is people power, grassroots climate action, and the unshakeable belief that when we rise together, we win. Courage. Education. Action. Letâs go.
đŞď¸ Whatâs Happening: Four Stories Our Protect Our Planet Movement Needs to Know About
Every week, the climate crisis generates news. But news without context is just noise. Here are four developments our movement needs to understand â and respond to â right now.
đď¸ The Trump administration is disappearing climate change data
Over the past year, the Trump administration has systematically pulled down, discontinued, and manipulated federal environmental data â removing the EPAâs Risk Management Plans, ending NOAAâs Billion Dollar Disasters tracking program, revoking the landmark 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, and now proposing to end the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program for 46 of 47 industries. Far from mere indifference, these coordinated erasures reveal how urgently the Trump administration wants to ensure pollution can no longer be seen, measured, or regulated. The Hill
Why This Matters: When a government dismantles the tools used to measure pollution and climate harm, it doesnât eliminate the harm â it just ensures thereâs no public record of it, making communities unable to protect themselves and courts unable to hold polluters accountable.
đ˛ Keep carbon funds flowing to fight climate change
The Seattle Times editorial board is urging Washington state lawmakers to resist Gov. Bob Fergusonâs proposal to redirect more than $500 million raised through the stateâs Climate Commitment Act â a cap-and-invest program that has collected $4.3 billion from the stateâs biggest carbon polluters and was intended for climate mitigationâ toward general budget relief, including rebate checks for lower-income residents. Voters overwhelmingly defended the CCA at the ballot box in 2024 with a 62% majority, and the board warns that diverting these funds would betray that public trust and undermine the stateâs role as a national climate leader at precisely the moment federal leadership has collapsed. The Seattle Times
Why This Matters: With the federal government actively dismantling climate policy, Washingtonâs carbon market is one of the most consequential state-level climate programs in the country â raiding it for budget purposes, even with good intentions, could fatally erode the public confidence and political coalition that kept it alive.
đŤď¸ EPA Moves to Fire 22 More Environmental Justice Staffers
The Environmental Protection Agency issued reduction-in-force notices to 22 employees working on environmental justice â those who address pollution in overburdened and underserved communities â prompting outrage from the federal workersâ union. This comes as the EPAâs workforce has already been reduced by an estimated 30 percent, with the union warning that further cuts are stretching remaining staff to a breaking point and weakening the agencyâs ability to respond to environmental and public health threats. The Hill
Why This Matters: Cutting environmental justice staff directly weakens protections for low-income and minority communities that already bear a disproportionate burden of pollution. These ongoing workforce reductions signal a broader dismantling of the federal governmentâs commitment to equitable environmental protection.
đ˘ď¸ Trump touts âdrill, baby, drillâ agenda â but no mention of climate crisis
Trump promoted a âdrill, baby, drillâ agenda in his State of the Union while never saying âclimate change,â despite climate-fueled disasters looming over the speech. The Trump administration is boosting fossil fuels and undermining clean energy which is seeing demand rising. The Guardian
Why This Matters: When leaders erase climate reality while expanding fossil fuels, the costs land on everyone elseâthrough disasters, higher bills, and worsening health. Public pressure matters because the atmosphere doesnât negotiate with propaganda.
⥠Why It Matters: This Is the Pattern â And We Are the Response
Storms intensifying. Winters shrinking. Political leaders refusing to name the crisis. International accountability efforts blocked by the worldâs biggest polluters. These are not separate stories. They are one story â about who holds power, who is protected, and who is left behind.
The climate crisis does not pause for elections. It does not wait for leaders to find the right words. And it does not affect everyone equally. The communities bearing the heaviest burden â coastal towns, agricultural regions, low-income neighborhoods, small island nations â are also the communities with the least political power under the current system.
That is where our movement comes in. We are not waiting for the powerful to fix this. We are building the power it takes to fix it ourselves. Every time we educate a neighbor, turn out a voter, support a frontline community, or hold a polluter accountable, we are doing the essential work. This is what people power looks like.
đ¤ Who Benefits â and Who Our Movement Fights For
When climate action is delayed, defunded, or ignored, the people who suffer first are never the ones at the top. The burden of global warming falls hardest on communities that have contributed least to it: low-income families, Indigenous communities, communities of color, agricultural workers, and small island nations like Vanuatu that face rising seas and intensifying storms not of their making.
Meanwhile, fossil fuel corporations continue to profit from the deregulation our movement opposes. When a State of the Union skips the climate crisis, that silence is a gift to polluters. When disaster response is defunded, insurance companies donât pay the price â families do. This is the system our movement exists to change.
Who benefits from our grassroots climate action? Everyone who breathes air, drinks water, grows food, and needs a livable planet. That is the constituency we fight for. It is the largest constituency there is.
đ The Broader Pattern: Democracy and Climate Are the Same Fight
Here is something we know to be true: the strongest climate protections emerge from the strongest democracies. And the weakening of democratic institutions reliably tracks with rising pollution, lost accountability, and communities sacrificed for corporate profit. This is not coincidence. It is cause and effect.
For nearly 250 years, democracy has been the foundation that makes clean air laws possible, that defends public lands, that ensures no community is thrown away for the sake of a corporationâs bottom line. Democracy was not handed down â it was built. By everyday people who showed up, organized, demanded better, and refused to accept less.
That is our inheritance. And it is under threat at the same moment the climate crisis demands our full collective response. Protecting democracy is protecting the planet. Protecting the planet is protecting democracy. These are not two fights. They are one movement.
When we stand up for people power, we stand up for a livable future for generations yet to come. That has always been the work. It remains the work today.
đą What Comes Next: This Is How We Win
Our movement has been here before â facing long odds, powerful opponents, and leaders who prefer silence to accountability. And our movement has won before, too.
We win when we organize.
We win when we educate.
We win when we refuse to back down.
Power has always belonged to the people. It always will. Letâs use it.
Rise Together: Build People Power
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Laurie Woodward Garcia
(paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)
Leader, People Power United
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