Nothing short of an all-out effort to convert away from fossil fuels and nuclear power as fast as humanly possible will save our communities and wild lands from abrupt sea level increases and catastrophic weather disasters. Hurricane Katrina was just the beginning.

The impending summer sea ice melt in the Arctic Ocean will accelerate the destabilization of the Greenland ice sheet, which will break-up the West Antarctic ice sheet.

Our best chance to maintain ice sheet and climate stability and predictability is to redirect trillions of dollars of federal bail-out money not to the banks and corporations that have caused all of our crises, but to America’s communities to build new, strong, secure, sustainable, local economies producing all major goods close to home.