[GPSCC-chat] Steve Raney, 350.org this Thursday, 7 - 7:30 PM, April 24

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, All:


Steve Raney, Principal at Cities21 in Palo Alto (350.org volunteer), 
will speak on "Strategies to Defeat Exxon/Koch: Politics of Federal 
Climate Legislation" during the pre-meeting period before our regular 
monthly meeting this Thursday. An outline of his presentation appears 
below and on our web site, "www.cagreens.org/santaclara".


You are welcome to come for the presentation and leave after if you wish.


Hope to see you then.


Best Wishes,
Spencer


Outline:
1) Political strategies to enact strong federal climate legislation 
within 36 months (in the face of the overwhelming political power of the 
fossil fuel industry).
2) Strategies of 350.org, Citizens Climate Lobby, and Environmental 
Defense.
3) Professor Erica Chenoweth’s dataset of past international citizen 
movements shows that when 3.5% of a country’s population (11 million 
pro-climate Americans) is actively involved in a movement, 80% of those 
movements achieve their objectives.


-- 
Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Technology Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
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