In 2019, Fight For Our Lives shifted focuses and began to organize around the greatest threat our generation will face - climate change.
In New Mexico, a significant portion of our State's economy is funded by volatile oil and gas revenues that come directly from ecological destruction on sacred Indigenous lands across NM. As young people on the frontlines of the fossil fuel extraction dooming our future, we refuse to sit idly by as the adults in power gable with our future.
OUR CLIMATE CRISIS DEMANDS:
- A just transition to 100% to renewable energy (nuclear energy is not renewable or sustainable energy) no later than 2030;
- Immediate action to protect New Mexico’s lands, water, climate and communities by placing a moratorium on fracking;
-The immediate investment of revenues generated from extractive industry into an Economic Transition Study and Planning & Implementation Fund accessible to local communities in order to develop alternatives to our state’s dependence on oil and gas revenues. We will no longer allow the education, social service, and infrastructure needs of New Mexicans to be held hostage by fossil fuel extraction that threatens our existence. We hold our state government accountable for the failure to plan and generate alternatives to fossil-fuel dependency over the last 50 years. We raise the fact that despite our oil and gas “riches” - our state remains one of the poorest with failing education and health care systems, unmatched levels of childhood poverty and food insecurity, and limited economic opportunities. The fossil fuel industry has clearly NOT been working for New Mexicans;
- Transition planning and implementation must be designed to address the needs and demands of those most affected by the climate crisis;
- Renewable energy investment must explicitly address equity issues, be paired with investment in energy conservation and efficiency, and be designed to maximize community benefits and control (such as community solar);
- We are committed to centering the voices of indigenous, (low-income) youth (of color) in the planning process, as our voices have historically been divested of any semblance of decision-making authority;
- We demand a just transition that prioritizes indigenous sovereignty; establishes reparations and remediation led by and for Black people, Indigenous people, people of color and poor communities for years of environmental injustice, establishes legal rights for ecosystems to thrive and regenerate in perpetuity, and repairs the effects of ongoing ecocide to prevent extinction of human and all species, in order to maintain a livable, just planet for all.
- With immediacy, we call on the elected officials of New Mexico to declare a climate emergency and to support the Green New Deal and Equitable & Just Climate Platform; and for our adult allies to step out of their routines, workplaces, and comfort zones on the 20th of September to show their support for and invest in our cause and the future.
In New Mexico, a significant portion of our State's economy is funded by volatile oil and gas revenues that come directly from ecological destruction on sacred Indigenous lands across NM. As young people on the frontlines of the fossil fuel extraction dooming our future, we refuse to sit idly by as the adults in power gable with our future.
OUR CLIMATE CRISIS DEMANDS:
- A just transition to 100% to renewable energy (nuclear energy is not renewable or sustainable energy) no later than 2030;
- Immediate action to protect New Mexico’s lands, water, climate and communities by placing a moratorium on fracking;
-The immediate investment of revenues generated from extractive industry into an Economic Transition Study and Planning & Implementation Fund accessible to local communities in order to develop alternatives to our state’s dependence on oil and gas revenues. We will no longer allow the education, social service, and infrastructure needs of New Mexicans to be held hostage by fossil fuel extraction that threatens our existence. We hold our state government accountable for the failure to plan and generate alternatives to fossil-fuel dependency over the last 50 years. We raise the fact that despite our oil and gas “riches” - our state remains one of the poorest with failing education and health care systems, unmatched levels of childhood poverty and food insecurity, and limited economic opportunities. The fossil fuel industry has clearly NOT been working for New Mexicans;
- Transition planning and implementation must be designed to address the needs and demands of those most affected by the climate crisis;
- Renewable energy investment must explicitly address equity issues, be paired with investment in energy conservation and efficiency, and be designed to maximize community benefits and control (such as community solar);
- We are committed to centering the voices of indigenous, (low-income) youth (of color) in the planning process, as our voices have historically been divested of any semblance of decision-making authority;
- We demand a just transition that prioritizes indigenous sovereignty; establishes reparations and remediation led by and for Black people, Indigenous people, people of color and poor communities for years of environmental injustice, establishes legal rights for ecosystems to thrive and regenerate in perpetuity, and repairs the effects of ongoing ecocide to prevent extinction of human and all species, in order to maintain a livable, just planet for all.
- With immediacy, we call on the elected officials of New Mexico to declare a climate emergency and to support the Green New Deal and Equitable & Just Climate Platform; and for our adult allies to step out of their routines, workplaces, and comfort zones on the 20th of September to show their support for and invest in our cause and the future.
Our Climate Crisis Actions:
THE OUTCOME:
As a result from our mass mobilization in Albuquerque, both New Mexican Senators Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall announced that they would support the Green New Deal, specifically citing the pressure they receiving from young people across the State.
Furthermore, the City of Albuquerque City Council and Bernalillo County Commission passed Emergency Climate Declarations, the first step towards building a carbon-free New Mexico.
As a result from our mass mobilization in Albuquerque, both New Mexican Senators Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall announced that they would support the Green New Deal, specifically citing the pressure they receiving from young people across the State.
Furthermore, the City of Albuquerque City Council and Bernalillo County Commission passed Emergency Climate Declarations, the first step towards building a carbon-free New Mexico.