A once in a generation opportunity.

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Published on Saturday, 31 January 2015 11:44

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Dear friends,

We are standing in a window of opportunity -- a once-in-a-generation opportunity to totally overhaul our energy system.

The climate movement is on the rise, people power is beating back extreme energy from New York to Scotland, and renewable energy is cheaper than ever before. At the same time, tumbling oil prices -- which conventional wisdom says is bad news for the climate -- mean that the vast profits that underpin the fossil fuel industry’s power are on unusually shaky ground.

Suddenly fossil fuels are on the defensive. Suddenly tar sands and fracking don’t look like such hot investments anymore. Respectable, prudent fund managers are seriously considering taking their money out of fossil fuels, and many of them have already done so.

Will you help us seize the moment? In less than two weeks, fossil fuel divestment supporters from around the world will come together with a single message: Fossil fuels are... history, and renewable energy is our future.

Global Divestment Day is February 13th, and it’s not too late to host your own simple action.

All you need to lead a photo action is a camera, some home-made signs, and a group of friends and neighbors. Click here for more creative ideas on how you can add your voice to the call for a fossil free future.

Click here to add a Global Divestment Day event to the map.

If enough of us take action on Global Divestment Day, we can shift public opinion and open up the political space to radically transform both our energy systems and our climate policies. Whether you’re reading this on an island in the Pacific, a small town in Canada, or in London, together we can send a powerful and united global message.

I know this because every single week this January I've seen divestment campaign victories spread this message across the world: the first Swedish University to divest, an Australian city council, the United Methodist Church, and New York’s New School to name just a few. Earlier this month, victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines even organized actions urging the Pope to divest the Vatican from fossil fuels.

Windows like this can and do pass. Let’s not let this one pass us by.

I hope you’ll join me on Global Divestment Day. Click here to create an event.

Onward,

May

P.S. Don't take that "once in a generation" stuff from me -- the Economist said the same thing earlier this month.

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