Tara Kelly Hammond

Santa Cruz native | @sdsu alumna | founder/exec director of Hammond Climate Solutions (@hcs__foundation), dedicated to stopping the #climatecrisis

[Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance]

This is a dark day for America. The Republican Party, priding itself on "fiscal responsibility," just voted to rip a $3,400,000,000,000 hole in the deficit in order to give tax breaks to billionaires - while cutting Medicaid and slashing climate funding. (1/9)🧵

[Hammond Climate Solutions Foundation @HCS__Foundation]

Today is the last opportunity to make a tax-deductible donation in 2024! Your donation today will make a positive impact in 2025 and beyond. 🌎 Donations can be made online, supporting specific climate initiatives or our on-going climate efforts, at https://t.co/kRfk0oqYk1 💚

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

This DOE report sounds like bad news for LNG exports.

The industry will try and spin this as "no big deal," but early reporting suggests that the DOE found that exports:

1. Drive up costs
2. Hurt communities
3. Pollute the Climate

Here's why that matters 🧵

[Hammond Climate Solutions Foundation @HCS__Foundation]

Our Executive Director @tk_hammond & Deputy Director Karinna Gonzalez recently presented to the San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative. They talked about our solar projects in Sherman Heights & Olivewood Gardens. Learn more at https://t.co/oN37CxZiRX.

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

BIG NEWS: The state of Maine is suing Big Oil for climate deception!!!

The lawsuit is calling on companies like BP, Chevron, Exxon, and Shell to pay for past and future climate harms and cease their "ongoing deception."

#MakePollutersPay https://t.co/qqfpxcEalb

[Tara Kelly Hammond @tk_hammond]

@mckelmer @GavinNewsom @realDonaldTrump @AP It would be great to see @GavinNewsom roll out a rooftop solar-friendly rate that his CPUC slashed, disseminating solar jobs and increasing reliance on the climate crisis accelerator, fracked methane gas.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

If you made $53,000 a day or $20 million per year since Jesus was born you would still not make the profit Shell made in 2022.

It’s time for Shell to Stop Drilling and Start Paying for the climate damage they’ve caused.

#MakeShellPay #actonclimate #climate #energy #renewables

[Tara Kelly Hammond @tk_hammond]

@jamieclimate @HCS__Foundation’s #SolarMoonshotProgram has grants for nonprofits to go solar, helping 160+ nonprofits in 28 states and Puerto Rico. There is more funding available. It’s a simple application with a quick response time. https://t.co/xQMEeIOTAs ☀️

[Tyler Norris @tylerhnorris]

It barely registers and isn’t among the top 50 reasons he’s unfit, but a major party candidate denying climate change in 2024 is abominable.

[Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell]

Further evidence (as if any were needed) that the fossil fuel industry is plotting a coup of Earth's climate if Trump is reelected.
https://t.co/GP5YhxvGJE

[tern @1goodtern]

I made it about 30 seconds in before I started crying, but *don't give up before the two minute mark*.

It's the *second half* that's the important part.
♥️🔥👇

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

"Stop giving power to people who don't believe in science or worse than that, pretend they don't believe in climate change for their own self-interest." Harrison Ford

There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #biodiversity #voteclimate #dumptrump #vote

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

The nightmare is on loop.

It may already be too late, but the only reason we’re not adapting like crazy in this moment is because our politics, media & lives are owned by psychopathic corporations who’d rather kill everything & everyone than see a dent in shareholder profit.

[Climate Power @ClimatePower]

"If you believe that climate change is real, and an existential threat to our country and the world, you gotta vote for Kamala because Trump thinks it is a 'hoax.'" —@BernieSanders' message to voters across the country

[Dana Goldberg @DGComedy]

If you plan on voting for Jill Stein or Trump because of the war in the Middle East, please watch and reconsider. It’s just 6 minutes and it’s worth the watch.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

I have a confession and a plea to folks who are flirting with voting Jill Stein.

When I was a 20 year old college student in 2000, I voted for Ralph Nader instead of Al Gore. I loved the progressive message Nader offered, and Bush and Gore seemed kinda the same to someone who was paying peripheral attention.

I've regretted that vote for my entire adult life.

Ultimately, George Bush won by a margin of 500+ votes in the state of Florida over Gore. And that was the ballgame. Ralph Nader peeled 97,000+ votes away from Gore. If only 600 of those 90,000 had voted for the major party candidate that more aligned with their values, things would have been very different.

When I was in my senior year of college, 9/11 happened. The country and western world rallied around Bush's resolute response to the traumatizing terror attacks. I was in NY at the time, and it was a terrifying moment for the nation.

But the consequences of Bush being in office at that moment were immense.

Bush's disdain for his dad's nemesis, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, led him to invent a rationale to invade a country that literally had nothing to do with 9/11. End result? He killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, thousands of American troops, and spent over a trillion dollars of taxpayer money in the process.

Beyond the completely immoral and indefensible Iraq War, Bush was a complete disaster as a president. His "No Child Left Behind" effort turned public schools into standardized testing centers. He tripled down on fossil fuels and ignored climate change. His tax cuts for the rich helped contribute to the 2008 economic downturn that led to the Great Recession.

He was a terrible president.

In an alternate reality, Al Gore would have been president in 2001 when terrorists attacked America. Would he have gone into Iraq? Absolutely not. Would he have ignored global warming? 100% no! Gore was perhaps the preeminent proponent of fighting climate change at that time. Would he have passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy? No way.

This is a sliding doors scenario. What would have happened? We can't be sure. But one thing is for sure: those votes for Ralph Nader (in Florida in particular) were EXCEPTIONALLY consequential for the lives of millions around the world. Gore would have offered a more forward-facing, environmentally conscious & peaceful presidency that wasn't so rooted in grievance and privilege.

My point is:

Either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will win the election. That is a fact. You might feel the need to submit a "protest vote" as I did in 2000.

Just be ready to wear it when Donald Trump wins, strips away reproductive rights from all Americans, implements an economy-destroying tariff, dismantles the entire federal government, eliminates the Department of Education, prosecutes his perceived enemies, and devolves America into chaos.

There are no perfect choices. But rest assured, there are only two.

Trust me - I've been wearing my vote for a quarter century.

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after this

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

“Where people face repression and rights violations every day, activists see a clearer connection... We can’t talk about the climate if we can’t even go out on the street and hold a sign. Climate activism and human rights are united.”

https://t.co/BGsJCMl8h6

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

Wait... @PeteButtigieg debated 25 undecided Michigan voters?!

WHAT

Is there anything he won't do? this man is fearless