With the increasing awareness and hype about climate chaos in the past 2 years, people are trying to cash in. Rising Tide North America has initiated a new campaign against some of the “False Solutions” to climate change currently on the market.

The false solutions we are working to expose include carbon trading, offsets, and sequestration schemes and “alternative” fuels like nuclear power, “clean” coal, agrofuels (like ethanol), and liquefied natural gas that aren’t really any better than our current energy sources.

Our need to believe that something can save us from climate change, our fear of change and the unknown make these purely technological and market-based solutions extremely seductive. Yet upon closer examination they are dangerous detours on the road to a just climate future, and take us farther away from addressing the root causes of climate change.

To address these root causes, Rising Tide believes we must look honestly at how terribly tangled up we are in systems of social and environmental devastation, rather than buy into the scams of disaster profiteers. For us this means making our communities more just and sustainable, dismantling the many systems of oppression within our society that separate us from each other and the earth, challenging the power of corporations and governments tied to the expansion of the fossil fuel empire, and keeping coal, oil and natural gas in the ground.

In the coming months check back here for more resources on these topics, as well as for news about and ideas for taking ACTION against false solutions and for climate justice.

Contact falsesolutions[-at-]risingtidenorthamerica[-dot-]org if you want to join us!