---------- Forwarded message --------- From: The Next System Project <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 7:01 PM Subject: Taking Climate Action To The Next Level To: <[email protected]> Our latest report on the climate crisis suggests groundbreaking interventions in the power structures at the heart of the crisis The latest from The Next System Project *Taking Climate Action to the Next Level* The latest report from The Next System Project, released in advance of the Global Climate Change Summit in San Francisco, lays out a bold agenda for what "real climate change leadership" looks like. "Taking Climate Action to the Next Level" <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=b840d0905e&e=8155f3738d> details three groundbreaking and complementary interventions that could start transforming the power structures that promote and enable our problematic energy and political economic systems: quantitative easing for the planet, public ownership for energy democracy, and anchor strategies for the energy transition. The report was written by Next System Project co-chair Gus Speth and researchers Carla Skandier and Johanna Bozuwa. "Within the system we have, we will never be able to push the needle far or fast enough toward a renewable energy system," says the report's introduction. "We need to start implementing energy interventions today in key points of the system with the aims of keeping fossil fuels in the ground, deploying renewable energy, and changing our political economy. The report has four chapters. - The Systemic Roadblocks to Climate Action <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=e721d3c143&e=8155f3738d> explains how three interconnected imperatives of the current system—the unrelenting pressure for economic growth, the outsized power of corporations, and the United States’ extractive approach to resource use—push us toward climate catastrophe and prevent meaningful action. - Quantitative Easing for the Planet <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=0888dba433&e=8155f3738d> charts ways to halt fossil fuel extraction and dissolve entrenched opposition from major fossil fuel companies by proposing a buyout that can at once secure public control over fossil fuel reserves, keep them in the ground, and unlock an orderly, just energy transition. - Public Ownership for Energy Democracy <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=6c4aa30fdb&e=8155f3738d> investigates opportunities for putting electricity generation and distribution back into public and community hands while enhancing democratic governance, wealth distribution, and renewable energy use throughout states and municipalities. - An Anchor Strategy for the Energy Transition <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=5deaca1ecc&e=8155f3738d> spells out how large, mission-driven energy consumers can create an alternative to today's extractivist economy by leveraging their resources to help build community systems and local demand for renewable energy sources, jobs, and investments. Our page features a downloadable copy <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=217ac35f2c&e=8155f3738d> of the full report, an infographic <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=7e66aed015&e=8155f3738d> that summarizes the "three interventions to take back the energy system," and links to web versions of the introduction and four chapters. Go to the report... <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=bb33aa8390&e=8155f3738d> *Join Us at the Global Climate Action Summit* Report co-authors Carla Santos Skandier and Johanna Bozuwa will be at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco starting September 12, and will also be at the "Rise for Climate" <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=23919abb42&e=8155f3738d> march that will precede the summit on September 8. Rise for Climate is a global day of action to challenge local leaders to commit to building a fossil-fuel-free world that puts people and justice before profits. If you are not in the San Francisco area, find a march near you <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=4c0e30dd04&e=8155f3738d> . Follow the action online on The Next System Project's Twitter <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=8f6404eadf&e=8155f3738d> and Facebook <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=4fa026b6d6&e=8155f3738d> pages, as well as #GCAS2018 on Twitter. *How We Respond To the Fossil Fuel Bailout* Carla Santos Skandier writes in *Truthout* that the conditions are ripe for a fossil fuel industry bailout that parallels the financial industry bailouts of 2008-2009. When that happens, Skandier says we should be prepared to respond with a plan that quickly phases out the industry and replaces it with democratically controlled sustainable energy. Read the article... <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=cd71ef16d6&e=8155f3738d> *We Need a Dose of Public Pharma* In *The American Prospect*, Next System Project deputy director Dana Brown lays out the case for a public pharmaceutical system. The unwillingness of the major drug corporations to invest in the development of new antibiotics to fight a new generation of "superbugs" vividly demonstrates the need. "Despite the many incentives being thrown their way ... major pharmaceutical companies are pulling out of antibiotic research and development at alarming rates," Brown writes. "In an industry that has a bad case of market-incentive syndrome, it is time to consider the establishment of public pharmaceutical companies as an antidote." Read the article... <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=c793a916a2&e=8155f3738d> *Dana Brown Talks Public Pharma on "The Zero Hour"* "The Zero Hour with R.J. Eskow" <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=9d5d288670&e=8155f3738d> features Dana Brown talking about her argument in favor of a public pharmaceutical alternative. "The Zero Hour" is produced by We Act Radio in Washington and airs on radio stations around the country as well as on YouTube. Watch... <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=ceb2fd0f75&e=8155f3738d> *We Help Paint A Picture of a 'Socialist America'* Next System Project and Democracy Collaborative writers Joe Guinan, Thomas Hanna and Peter Gowan were among the contributors to Politico's Labor Day holiday feature, "What Would a Socialist America Look Like?" <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=274fa85493&e=8155f3738d> The anthology features quick takes from a number of leading left voices, including people from Our Revolution, Democratic Socialists of America and Rashida Tlaib, the Democratic congressional candidate from Michigan slated to assume the seat held by longtime congressman John Conyers Jr. Gowan, Guinan and Hanna each share a perspective on how democratic ownership and control serve as a vital counterpoint to capitalism. 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