From http://climatelegacy.tumblr.com/
Claremont Colleges kick-off their divestment campaign in coalition with students from UCLA by making a divestment climate dot in solidarity with Sandy victims.
Hurricane Sandy has destroyed my neighborhood in Atlantic Beach, NY - located on the the south shore of Long Island. My home has been flooded with 4’ of water as the bay and the ocean came together. We have been without power or communication for over a week and will possibly remain in the dark and cold for at least a month. This is New York but Climate Change has no mercy no matter where you live.
50 people gathered in Brooklyn today to make a dot, then help with relief efforts throughout the city.
Cornell University and Ithaca College students connect the dots between extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy and the money their school invests in the fossil fuel industries that have caused our climate crisis. They, along with 40 other schools, are calling on their universities to divest coal and fossil fuels and fund the future instead!
My sister a single mother of 3 girls, barely keeping her head above water, now has to worry about cutting up this beautiful tree that was in her front yard. We are so grateful it didn’t hit her roof.
Transit workers inspect completely flooded subway station on the A Line at Dyckman Street in upper Manhattan. They are reflected in the water which rises all the way up to the station platform.
NYC is a small dot in a big world… sandy left us flooded and in the dark
“War zone” in Wyckoff, New Jersey. Lights out in 98% of homes. 24 miles and a world away from mid-town midtown Manhattan. Power companies say it could be 2 weeks until power restored to this part of NJ. Time to connect the dots, bury the power lines and adapt to our changing climate..More pictures on www.climatemama.com/blog
We’ve never really had a problem with severe storms where I live in Long Island, but in the last 2 years we’ve had 2 evacuations as well as several hurricane and tornado warnings. My house has never flooded before, but Hurricane Sandy has put my entire backyard underwater, broke our dock, and flooded the streets high enough so that salt water is pouring into my parents cars through the doors into the interior as well as into the engine. I know one storm cannot be attributed to climate change, but the persistent extreme weather is a sign.Connect the dots!
