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Meet the Speakers!

This month we asked our Super Rally speakers what inspired them to get involved in the climate issue. See what some of the leaders of our movement had to say:

Dr. James Hansen, director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

"Venus sparked my interest in human-made global warming on our own planet. I had studied Venus in my doctoral and post-doctoral research, and I proposed an experiment for the Pioneer Venus mission to that planet. But while that instrument was being built, over the period 1974 and 1978, my colleagues and I made calculations of the climate effect of human-made greenhouse gases on Earth. It became obvious that if we burn all the fossil fuels, putting the carbon dioxide into the air, we might push our planet a good fraction of the way toward the conditions on that planet, where all of the carbon dioxide is in the air and the surface is hot enough to melt lead. I resigned as the Principal Investigator of the Pioneer Venus experiment, so that I could devote my time to understanding the effects of humans on altering Earth's climate."
--Jim

Amy Goodman, host, Democracy Now!

"Global Warming and Global Warring are the key issues of our time. Oil is the cause of so much pain in the world. I have been inspired by those who have born the brunt of the world's demand for oil-- like Ken Saro-Wiwa, and the people of the Niger Delta, in Nigeria. There, people endure both pollution from the oil extraction, and violent repression at the hands of the Nigerian military, working closely with companies like Shell and Chevron. Saro-Wiwa was executed with seven others, for the crime of speaking out. I am inspired by the people of East Timor, who endured one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, in part to ensure that nothing got in the way of Indonesia and Australia sharing in the oil spoils off the coast of East Timor, in the Timor Gap. So, too, in Aceh, where land and people are exploited for natural gas, or in Colombia where the U'wa have taken on Occidental Petroleum. The people with the smallest carbon footprint are often those most brutalized by the world's thirst for oil. We need a media that is not brought to you by the oil companies that fuel the wars and fund the think tanks that cover up the key issues of our time. Democracy Now!"
--Amy

Reverend Jim Wallis, President and Executive Director, Sojourners

"My theology and my concern for the future of the world's children have inspired me to take up the global warming issue. The neglect of our natural environment and its degradation is not just bad policy; it is bad theology. And getting our theology wrong has put our natural environment and our children's future in great jeopardy. When climate change and ecological pressures threaten the survival of a civilization as we know it, I want to reassert an ethic of environmental stewardship that is rooted in our most basic moral and religious values."
--Jim

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