Protect Our Planet: Climate Action and Environmental Justice | March 31, 2026
Protect Our Planet for March 31: Warming oceans are shrinking the global food supply, Trump is erasing climate science from our national parks, and the Everglades is fighting back.
The climate crisis is rewriting the rules of survival — for fish, for our food supply, and for the truth itself. New science confirms that warming oceans are forcing fish to evolve faster, shrink smaller, and die younger — a biological shift that could slash the global seafood supply by 20 to 30 percent. Three billion people depend on fish as their primary protein source, and the communities who will go hungry first are the ones who did the least to cause this crisis.
At the same time, the fight over what we’re allowed to know is escalating. The Trump administration is scrubbing climate science and history from our national parks. Fossil fuel companies are buying cultural legitimacy through stadium naming deals. But the Everglades is pulling carbon from the atmosphere because people demanded its restoration — and everyday fans are standing at stadium gates refusing to let Big Oil hide behind their favorite teams. This is what people power looks like. The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.
🌿 Protect Our Planet: This Week’s Environmental Warnings
The climate crisis generates noise every week. Here is what the noise is actually telling us — and why it matters to our movement.
🐟 Warming Oceans Are Shrinking Our Fish — and the Global Food Supply
New research in the journal Science delivers an urgent warning: as ocean temperatures climb, fish are maturing younger, growing smaller, and dying faster. Scientists project this evolutionary shift will reduce global fish yields by roughly one-fifth under current warming trends — and up to 30 percent in higher-emissions scenarios. The billions of people worldwide who rely on seafood as their primary protein source will feel this first. Mother Jones
Why This Matters: The communities facing hunger are the same ones that did the least to cause this crisis — coastal fishing families, Indigenous peoples, and billions in the Global South who depend on the sea to survive. This isn’t a distant forecast. It is already happening, and every fraction of a degree of warming makes it worse. The fossil fuel industry is literally shrinking the food on people’s tables. The Protect Our Planet movement cannot afford to look away.
🏟️ Sports Fans Are Confronting Fossil Fuel Sponsorships at Stadiums Across America
A grassroots movement is confronting professional sports teams over their deals with fossil fuel companies and their financiers. On a single day in February, activists gathered outside 10 stadiums coast to coast — from Citi Field in New York to Busch Stadium in St. Louis — calling out what organizers describe as “sportswashing”: using beloved teams to launder the reputations of polluters. Olympic athletes and legal scholars are now amplifying the call. The Nation
Why This Matters: Fossil fuel companies aren’t just buying ad space — they’re buying trust. When families cheer surrounded by oil company logos, those corporations are buying a seat at the table of our everyday lives. That trust is what keeps the crisis funded. Every fan who shows up at a stadium with a sign is doing the work of the Protect Our Planet movement: making it a bad business decision to back the industry that is burning our world.
🌊 Restoring the Everglades Is Also Fighting Climate Change — and It’s Working
A landmark study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirms that Florida’s $27 billion Everglades restoration project is delivering real climate benefits. The watershed absorbs roughly 14 million tons of carbon dioxide each year — equal to 10 percent of emissions from all Florida roadways — and that capacity grew by 18 percent between 2003 and 2020 as restoration efforts expanded. Inside Climate News
Why This Matters: The Everglades supplies drinking water to millions of Floridians — and now science confirms it is also drawing down the carbon threatening their climate. Invest in nature, and nature fights back on our behalf. The communities most vulnerable to sea level rise, intensifying hurricanes, and water insecurity are the same communities this ecosystem protects. We restore it for them. We protect it for all of us.
Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait
💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today
🛢️ Take action: No oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
🚄 Take action: Sign the petition to support high-speed rail projects
🛑 Take action: Stop Trump’s attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency
🚫 Take action: Stop approving gas export terminals
🧪 Take action: Tell the EPA to stop promoting forever-chemical fertilizer
👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.
🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Our freedoms are won and lost at the ballot box.
The movement for grassroots climate action starts here.
💔 Why These Stories Matter
The pattern this week is clear — and it is deliberate. Fish shrink in warming oceans. Oil companies buy goodwill at stadium gates. Each story is a chapter from the same playbook: a coordinated effort to keep fossil fuels profitable by suppressing what people know, purchasing cultural legitimacy, and escaping accountability. The people paying the highest price are fishing families, frontline communities, Indigenous peoples, and the Global South — the communities whose futures are being decided by those who will never face the consequences.
And yet the resistance is real, it is growing, and it is ours. Scientists are publishing. Lawyers are filing. Fans are showing up outside stadiums with signs. The Everglades absorbs more carbon every year because people demanded its restoration. People Power United stands in that tradition — the long, people-powered tradition of refusing to let corporations write the ending of this story. Every movement that changed the world started with people who kept showing up. We are those people. The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.
Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.
Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United
People Power United champions freedom over fascism, progress, and power to the people-and we do the work to make it happen. In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!
This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.
Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.
The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.