Spotlight on green news & views: Climate crisis requires mobilization at World War II level

Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue) appears twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Here is the most recent previous Green Spotlight. More than 24,960 environmentally oriented stories have been rescued to appear in this series since 2006. Inclusion of a story in the Spotlight does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.

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Pacificshift writes—Out of time on Planet Earth - Climate "World War II" needed: “We are out of time on Planet Earth. In the three months since the Paris climate summit declared a 1.5° C maximum global warming target to significantly reduce climate disruption dangers, rapidly escalating world temperatures came within a hair’s breadth.   The average for the January-March timeframe was 1.47°C above the 1890s, the baseline before mass fossil fuel burning began to significantly heat the planet, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported.  For the first time in the historical record the planet has neared or crossed the agreed danger threshold for three months in a row. [...] The new World War II message is quickly coming in from the climate movement’s leading edges to the mainstream.  A group leading the call for a climate emergency response is Climate Mobilization.  The group aims to zero out U.S. climate-heating pollution by 2025.  Its Pledge to Mobilize asks that we, “Immediately commence a social and economic mobilization to restore a climate that is safe, stable, and supportive of human civilization. This heroic campaign shall be carried out on the scale of the American World War II home front mobilization, and will require hard work and shared sacrifice from all Americans.’”