Tired of just hearing about climate change? Then do something. Now.

Sadly, if these leaders reached an agreement today, it wouldn't be strong enough to do much good.*

In order to bring global CO₂ back to the safe zone, we need a global agreement now. But we can't wait for politicians to do the right thing. We need to turn the political heat way up.

The good news is that civil disobedience works. A coal-fired power plant recently had its permit withdrawn as a result of a community blockade of the Desert Rock site, in Dine (Navajo) territory, and there have been powerful actions throughout Appalachia, on Mount Rushmore, against the Tar Sands in Canada, and elsewhere.

Last March, in DC, thousands of people risked arrest and shut down the coal-fired plant that supplies Congress's power. (While Congress chose the false solution of natural gas instead, the action proved that civil disobedience does get a response.)

But time is far too short to shut down one site at a time. Massive action is needed today, in order to:

• ensure climate justice for the affected communities around the world that contribute the least to the problem, but are already feeling the effects
• implement a real deal that does not rely on carbon trading, offsets, or other false solutions
• keep all fossil fuels in the ground, and drastically reduce emissions
• end subsidies to climate polluters including oil and gas, coal, industrial bio-fuels, nuclear power, etc.
• end mountaintop removal and industrial logging of primary forests immediately
• invest in local union jobs driven by purpose, not profit, and protect our community health

During the Great Depression, it was only massive pressure from citizens, often including civil disobedience, that allowed Roosevelt to make the changes we all take for granted.

It was only the uncompromising action of hundreds of thousands that ended U.S. segregation and South African apartheid.

Today, when our leaders find themselves cornered by industrial lobbyists, they must be able to point out the window at us. Then, like Roosevelt and other leaders before them, they will be able to say: "Sorry, I can't."

This December, at Copenhagen, our leaders can choose to save our world. After that it may be too late. Through actions this fall leading up to November 30 and beyond, hundreds of thousands of us will show them directly the choice we want them to make. Won't you join us?