📢 Protect Our Planet: Climate Solutions, Real Costs, and People Power

🌎 Climate impacts are raising costs and flooding communities. Learn what’s happening now—and how people power protects our planet.

Climate change is not a distant threat—it’s a present and growing crisis. It endangers our environment, our communities, and the future of life on Earth. We must rise to meet this moment with courage, education, and action. Together, we can protect our ecosystems, preserve the planet’s beauty and biodiversity, and build a just, sustainable future for generations to come.

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🌍 Protect Our Planet — News Briefs

🔥 Scientists call another near-record hot year a ‘warning shot’ from a shifting climate

• Global climate experts report that 2025 ranked as one of the warmest years on record, reflecting accelerating temperature increases driven by human-caused emissions and signaling worsening climate impacts around the world. — NPR

Why This Matters: Rising global temperatures worsen droughts, heat waves, flooding, and ecosystem disruption — threatening public health, food security, water supplies, and economic stability as climate impacts intensify year after year.

🌍 2025 was Earth’s 3rd-warmest year as climate impacts intensify

• Although 2025 did not set a new temperature record, it still ranked among the three warmest years ever recorded globally, driven by rising greenhouse gases and marking yet another year of intense climate change impacts. — ABC News

Why This Matters: This continuation of extreme heat reinforces that the planet is rapidly approaching critical warming thresholds, resulting in more severe weather events and ecological disruptions that affect millions worldwide.

🌡️ NASA Releases Global Temperature Data Without Mention of Human-Caused Warming

• NASA’s data showed that 2025 was among the hottest years on record, with global average temperatures significantly above long-term averages, yet the United States government report omitted any reference to human-driven climate change — aligning with federal policy under President Trump’s second administration to sideline science in public communication. Climate scientists and advocates criticized the omission as part of a broader effort to obscure the role of fossil fuels and delay urgent action on the climate crisis. Common Dreams

Why This Matters: By erasing scientific context about human causes of global warming from official reporting, the Trump administration undermines public understanding and weakens support for effective climate policy — a move that benefits fossil fuel interests while putting people and the planet at greater risk.

➡️ Connecting the Dots

From household energy bills to flooded neighborhoods and global instability, these stories tell a shared truth: climate change is already shaping our lives—and the choices leaders make today will determine who is protected and who is left behind. The good news is that solutions exist, from clean energy to nature-based resilience, but progress depends on people power. When we stay informed, speak out, and demand action, we can protect our planet, our communities, and the future we owe to the next generation.

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What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Tell the EPA: Restore the Truth About Climate Change

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan & 4,000 New Oil Spills

• Click here to Tell Congress: Block Trump from Attacking Greenland

• Click here: No Fracking in National Forests

• Click here Don’t Give Public Land to Mining Companies

• Click here to Urge Leaders to Take Action to Save Ocean Life

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

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Laurie joining others to drop thousands of petitions off to Congress for reforms to the Supreme Court

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

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