Schedule a stop on the Tongass National Forest and Climate
Action speaking tour
With my fall speaking tour rapidly coming into place, I
have uploaded a video to www.chadkister.com
showing the first part of my journey through the
Tongass
National Forest
, with scores of photos, many taken from a Greenpeace helicopter.
The
Tongass
National Forest
is under attack with clear-cut logging planned for hundreds of thousands of
acres of old growth forest. A timber
company recently won approval to clear-cut 348 acres of old growth forest in a
roadless area near
Ketchikan
, in the Tongass. Meanwhile, The
American Clean Energy and Security Act is headed for the Senate, and climate
talks are scheduled in
Copenhagen
.
I am launching a speaking tour to address both the Tongass and Climate
Change, and have current interest for presentations in Palmdale, California; Los
Angeles; Laramie, Wyoming; Toledo and Bowling Green, Ohio; Scottsdale, New York;
Maine; New Hampshire; and Ashville, North Carolina.
Please consider hosting a presentation in your home town or campus by
emailing me at chadkister@gmail.com and calling (740) 753-3888 or (740) 707-4110
(cell). Please make sure you get a
response, or try again, as many emails and messages are not getting through.
The tour will be roughly October 7-November 6.
We need to encourage President Barrack Obama to restore the Roadless Rule,
which was put in place by the Clinton Administration after a record 1.7 million
comments in favor of the rule. The
people of our country clearly want our precious ancient forest protected.
The presentation shows just why this forest needs to be permanently
protected from logging. It is one of
the few places left on our planet that still has a robust salmon run in the tens
of millions of fish. But the science
is clear that when clear-cut logging takes place, the salmon fisheries crash, as
has been seen in
Washington
,
Oregon
and
California
.
More than thirty times more people are employed by the tourism and fishing
industries than in the logging industry. But
the clear-cutting threatens both the fishing and tourism industries.
With Climate Change, the presentation will show the latest science about
how climate change is unleashing feedback loops, such as the melting of Arctic
sea ice, the release of methane from the permafrost and methane clathrates, and
more. This is pushing us over
tipping points to an unstoppable, horrific climate crisis.
We need to strengthen the American Clean Energy and Security Act, and pass
it through the Senate. Meanwhile,
the
U.S.
needs to encourage a strong international climate treaty in negotiations in
Copenhagen
.
By hosting a presentation, you can both directly educate participants, and
work to get newspapers and radio and television stations to cover the event, to
help further both causes.