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Mary DeMocker uses the arts to fight for
a livable planet, and is cofounder of
350.org’s Eugene, Oregon chapter. She
lives with her family in Eugene, and
speaks frequently about creative ways to
make the world more healthy, just, and
fun. Her website is
www.marydemocker.com.

What is “climate revolution”?
It’s the global transition to a clean
energy, low-carbon future. It’s anything
that says “yes” to life, yes to smart
climate policy, yes to a thriving planet
for children. It’s already underway
everywhere, and we parents can help it
along in ways that work for our own
families.

Is your book about helping families
shrink their carbon footprints?No,
actually, because we cannot save our
kids’ futures by just recycling and using
cloth bags and turning down our
thermostats. In fact, all of that focus on science in schools, no to fracking that
individual efforts has become a huge uses up water just when we’re running
distractionwhen you weigh those efforts out of it, and much more. Those things
against today’s North American fossil aren’t just foolish. They threaten our
fuel frenzy. Trying to live lightly on Earth children’s health now and, in the long
is good for us and models healthy habits run, will threaten their very
for our kids, but it’s much more survival.That’s a lot of saying “no.”
important, at this critical moment in our True, but every “no” is tucked inside a
climate crisis, to shrink industry’s larger “yes”: Yes to clean and abundant
footprint. That means changing our energy from the wind and sun. Yes to
system, not just changing our lightbulbs.
energy innovation, to careful
It means saying no to short-sighted, management of refrigerants, to green
earth-killing policies. No to all new coal, jobs, to bullet trains and electric busses,
oil, or gas projects, no to subsidies for to women’s literacy programs, no-till
polluters, no to misleading climate farming, to community compost

Bliss Planet 20