After 10 years this is our last climate change monthly newsletter and climate issue update, but we will not be going silent. 

Accelerating climate change consequences are driving an avalanche of property insurance cancelations and soaring rates for existing and new homes, businesses, farms, and mortgages. In part, because of the new definitions of medium to high-risk climate change consequence areas.

Without reservation, for climate inspiration and urgency, we strongly recommend that you immediately watch Al Gore's opening speech to world leaders at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt. You will be so glad you did! And,

The book, Limits to Growth, published in 1972 was designed to publicize the findings of an MIT study funded by a group of European industrialists calling themselves the Club of Rome. Was this MIT collapse study correct?

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Use the information sheet below and send it by email, snail mail, or hand deliver it to your politicians, city, county, state, national disaster emergency response agencies, local officials, and zoning departments. This will help them, for the first time, see the true magnitude of what they face in the climate change emergency.

No matter what else you may do to manage the climate emergency, there is a new urgency for personal climate educational activism. The staggering questions below will bring up many serious climate issues that politicians and other government leaders you depend upon may not have considered.

Eventually, we are going to be asked by our governments to make many difficult sacrifices to get our climate emergency under control. However, the most critical sacrifice everyone is being asked to make today as a volunteer is to get our governments in action and to engage in some local level of climate educational activism at the minimum!

If we all are not educating our politicians and peers about the accelerating global heating extinction emergency, there is little hope that our governments will enact and enforce the necessary global fossil fuel reductions.

Yes, with things as bad as they are, you still need to enjoy your life while the climate remains relatively stable. But, at the same time, if you want any future life you would like to live, you also need to become an effective climate educational activist.

How Job One for Humanity can help you become a better climate educator and activist?

We have been thinking about this issue and what new tools we could provide to help you educate many more politicians and government leaders about what is coming. As a result of that evaluation, we have created the following email and hand-out information sheet, and we are asking all Job One for Humanity visitors, subscribers, and members to start emailing, snail mailing, or handing it out.

The information below should go out to local zoning boards, city, county, state, and national politicians and local agencies, and city, county, state, and national emergency preparation agencies. To open a climate dialog, you could even send it to your friends and neighbors and ask them what they think about the serious issues it raises.

Be especially sure to see that your most progressive and climate-friendly politicians get this document too. Many still do not understand the radical and real fossil fuel reduction amounts we must achieve or the insane costs of not solving the climate emergency as our top priority.

Most politicians, emergency response leaders, and local agency and zoning officials have a poor to outdated understanding of climate science and current climate conditions, as found in the regularly updated climate change consequence summary. Therefore, this document is designed to potentially sneak around the typical climate consequence ignorance, illusions, or climate denial surrounding how bad the climate crisis will get.

It is specifically designed to get local politicians and local government agency heads thinking about the insane costs and gigantic climate problems that are already here and will get far worse as we clean up after extreme weather climate emergencies and try to adapt to the next even worse climate event. 

Because we are almost out of time to save a significant part of humanity from large-scale extinction, this document should go to every mayor, city or county council person, governor, state and national senator, and representative for your nation. It should also go to all local, state, zoning, and emergency preparedness agencies. 

Please do your personal climate education activist part and get this handout in the hands of those with the power to act. It will make a difference.

Please note: You will often need to get your local politicians and government agency people a copy of this page on how the global fossil fuel cartel's lavishly financed global disinformation campaigns have censored almost everything they currently believe about the climate change crisis. Until they realize they have been intentionally deceived by censored climate information designed to protect fossil fuel cartel profits, they will often keep believing what they hear in the media or on official government channels. Click here for this global fossil fuel cartel mind-opener and icebreaker.

The following is the politician, local agency head, and city zoning committee handout to question their climate change plans and preparedness:

Part 1: How will you recover from, adapt to, and pay for our accelerating climate catastrophes on a local, state, and national basis?

Current and new climate change consequences directly harm our local communities. The accelerating climate emergency will require the creation of many new local zoning and building regulations. The increased climate risks will also significantly affect local insurance rates for homes, businesses, and farms and require a radical increase in new local, state, and national taxes.

This document is meant to bring into view many unforeseen climate costs and consequences so that local, state, and national politicians and relevant agencies can begin ALL necessary actions relating to these present and soon-to-be worse climate issues.

The following is a list of known and accelerating global warming consequences already occurring in many local, state, and national areas. In addition, reliable and uncensored predictions indicate that most global warming consequences listed below will accelerate radically in frequency, severity, and scale from 2025 to 2031 and then worsen significantly beyond that.

Therefore, as a citizen, I want to know how you and our local, state, and national emergency agencies and politicians plan to deal with the following accelerating climate consequences:

How will you manage and provide relief to your local, state, or national citizens with the predicted increase in frequency, severity and scale of Climate change-driven extreme weather events, which are defined in part, as heatwaves, heat domes, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, cyclones, tornados, floods and flooding, seal level rise, rain bombs, wind storms [Derechos], dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and other abnormal unseasonal weather.

More specifically, what is your plan for the following current and coming climate changes consequences:

How will you deal with the massive flooding as we experience more frequent, severe rain bombs of 10- 30 inches or more of rain over short periods covering ever-larger areas? Specifically, how will you expand our sewer systems to handle those vast amounts of water? How will you protect your water purification, sewage, and electrical stations from flooding from the predicted rain bombs?

How will you deal with ever-increasing flooding emergencies at the lowest levels of your highways and neighborhoods, which will be repeatedly flooded and impassable because of escalating rain bombs?

How will you relocate critical infrastructure (police, fire, hospitals, emergency supplies storage, etc. from high-climate risk areas to lower-climate risk areas wherever needed? (If this is not done soon, local emergency services will become difficult to impossible to deliver properly during the next climate emergency.)

How will you and your zoning departments deal with current climate change acceleration, making previous 100-year floodplain warning levels obsolete? Accelerating climate change consequences indicate that we must now use at least 1,000-year floodplain levels in all zoning codes and city planning to be safe. 

How will you deal with the massive insurance cancellations, failures to renew, and exponential increases in home, mortgage, and crop failure insurance? This is occurring already as local, state, national, and international insurance and reinsurance companies rapidly quit all global warming high-risk areas and move those anticipated climate losses onto local state and national governments and nonprofit organizations.

The world's insurance agencies are doing this already because of the anticipated hundreds of trillions of dollars in climate consequence losses worldwide. (Climate change consequences are predicted to soon cost nations 5% or more of their total GDP.) Smart insurance companies will not make themselves responsible for or expose themselves to out-of-control escalating climate risks because they know it will bankrupt all of them! (On renewal, many insurance companies are already adding new climate change exemption clauses to their existing policies. These new exemptions specifically deny climate change-related damages for most extreme weather events; such as heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, tornados, cyclones, flooding, rain bombs, wind storms [Derechos], dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and other abnormal unseasonal weather. The rising result of more insurance companies declining more high-risk climate change-affected coverages will be many more homes, businesses, and farms suddenly losing all or most of their value because they could not be insured (or the rates for that insurance would be beyond affordability.)

What is your current "managed retreat" plan for purchasing all homes, businesses, and farms that will be repeatedly destroyed by climate change consequences or soon be uninsurable in the new 1,000-year global warming high-risk zones and being in high-risk zones for the other climate change consequences?

How will you deal with the initial 2-3 feet of seal level rise and then over the following decades an additional 7-10 feet of coastal sea level rise coming from the glaciers behind the Thwaites doomsday glacier sliding into the sea along with all of the additional melting glaciers and snowpack from all over the rest of the world? How will you manage the Thwaites doomsday glacier-driven massive sea level rise and disruption to the coastal areas and their highways, sewage treatment, water treatment, and electrical power facilities, all of which will be below water along the coastal areas where half of humanity now lives?

How will you deal with the climate justice needs and costs of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, then millions, then the hundreds of millions (and eventually billions) of climate refugees migrating out of the areas between the northern and southern 35th parallels to the safer northern regions? If these people don't migrate, they will die because of climate change's many escalating primary and secondary consequences. This means they have no choice. Either they migrate or they die. (Unlike northern developed nations, these climate migrants come primarily from the nations that had little to do with causing our current fossil fuel-caused global warming extinction emergency.) 

How much will you have to increase and levy new taxes on the local, state, and national citizens and businesses when you are economically forced to cover all the accelerating recovery costs from escalating local, regional, state, and national climate disasters? (These tax increases would, at the minimum, also have to cover all the "managed retreat" home and business purchasing costs and the costs to move or raise affected highways, expand sewer systems, move or upgrade sewage and water treatment facilities (to make them climate consequence-safer,) and move electrical equipment and critical supplies and replacements threatened by flooding, rain bombs, and other climate consequences.)

And for your final question, ask your local politicians and agency heads what they have learned from the above questions and more importantly, what they will do about and how will they manage the escalating nightmare of Garett's Climate Change Dilemma.

Please send your personal and your organization's answer and position on the above issues and what you will do about them and their costs to (your email address here.) 

(Be sure also to contact your local, regional, state, or national media and give them a copy and let them know who you gave or sent this handout to. Let the agencies and politicians know you have given copies of this to the media so they know they are on notice and need to respond.)

Part 2: How soon will you begin restitution litigation against the fossil fuel companies causing climate change consequences and damages so the taxpayers do not have to pay for these cartel caused damages on a local, state, or national basis?

Our politicians must be warned about the rising tide of thousands of lawsuits being filed against the global fossil fuel cartel. These lawsuits concern the cartel's products causing worldwide consequences and damages related to climate change. These lawsuits are prosecuting the cartel's disinformation and undue influence programs on politicians to prevent passing effective laws that would enforce meaningful reductions in global fossil fuel use. Their disinformation programs have prevented the public from understanding the real climate change threat. 

These politicians must be warned that they will soon be on the wrong side of history. They could have any past involvement in squashing legitimate fossil fuel use reductions exposed as more lawsuits are filed, and more whistleblowers come forward to tell more of the hidden story. 

When you begin protesting politicians as described below, be sure also to warn them the tide is turning and not to be on the wrong side of the fossil fuel cartel's sinking ship. (if you haven't done so already, please read the three parts of the powerful Climate Justice Now program, which starts on this page. They will help you create many new ways to get the sinking ship message across to our politicians. As of 12.4.23 the Climate Justice Now program is our most recommended action to lower global fossil fuel use under current conditions.)

Additional Information for the Handouts

You can also make a powerful handout from our annual climate change consequence predictions found here. Just ask the people you give it to, "How are we going to deal with and pay for these consequences?" 

Documentation

What a climate researcher working at a climate change think tank is telling loved ones, and close friends can be helpful and revealing.

The world's 2,000 billionaires are on a suicidal course of fateful inaction due to grossly underestimating the consequences of our accelerating global heating extinction emergency. Can they be helpful or trusted?

Part One of the three-part series is on past and current timeline predictions for a global collapse process. Intelligent individuals will use the three reports for critical personal and business planning.

Learn how to better protect yourself & your family, and avoid extreme weather event damage and losses

The most important thing you can depend upon most government officials avoid telling you is that because of climate change; settled climate science predicts extreme weather events will become more severe, more frequent, and cover larger and larger areas. Worse yet, these extreme weather events are predicted to increase radically beyond their current level between 2025-2031.

1. Learn how to protect yourself and your family from extreme weather and climate change. See our free: 

Climate Change Disaster Preparation, Adaptation, Recovery and Migration Guidebook

2. What are the most important facts everyone should know about extreme weather events and climate change.

3. The 20 Worst Climate Change and Global Warming Consequences

4. What are the Other Primary and Secondary Consequences of Climate Change?

5. What are the most dangerous things people do not understand about the climate change emergency?

6. Get Our Free Climate Change and Global Warming Blog so you can stay up-to-date on the latest climate research. 

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No matter what else you may do to manage the climate emergency there is an new urgency for personal climate educational activism. The staggering questions below will bring up many serious climate issues you may not have considered.

Last Updated 5.9.25.

Please note: All members are strongly recommended to read the very detailed 2025 and beyond forecast and the 10 most important facts about climate change before reading any of the pages in our Members-Only sections. This will give you a minimal understanding of the severity and seriousness of what we will be soon collectively facing in the near future.

(As of May 2025, we are currently in the middle of our second five-year upgrade of all content on our website. Until this upgrade is complete, our new editors may still be correcting minor grammatical or spelling errors as they go through the hundreds of pages on our website.)

Prologue

As of 2023, hundreds of thousands of intelligent individuals worldwide are relocating due to intensifying climate change consequences. From 2025-2030 millions of intelligent individuals will be migrating. From 2030-2040 it will be hundreds of millions to as many as billion or more individuals migrating by 2050 as ever more people realize they live in climate change consequence "migrate or suffer and die" zones.

Below is essential information to avoid making serious relocation mistakes or wasting time and money. It is part of our online multi-page Climate Change Migration, Relocation, and Managed Retreat Guide. 

Some pages in our online migration/relocation guide require you to become a member for complete access. Still, membership is very reasonable and tax-deductible, and you get great additional gifts when you become a member. Your membership also helps our 100% publicly funded climate change think tank keep speaking uncensored climate change acts to power. Click here to see everything you will receive when you become a member.

This guide contains several parts with critical information on climate change migration, relocation, managed retreat, emergency preparations, adaptation strategies, and disaster recovery steps. To begin, go to the area of your greatest need, and select from the options below:

1. If you are looking for our extensive climate change-related migration, relocation, and managed retreat evaluation and location information, please continue reading this page and the rest of the following pages in our Member's section:

a. I need to know The most critical climate change consequence timeframes for when to migrate, relocate, or start my managed retreat plan for a safe future. Click here.

b. For more general climate change migration, relocation, or managed retreat information. Click here.

c. For the Recommended Climate Change Safer Relocation Areas Within the US and the World. Click here.

d. More Critical Information on Where and When to Migrate Because of Global Warming and Climate Change. Click here.

e. What everyone must know about climate change migration, relocation, and managed retreat before relocating. Click here.

f. Additional Critical Evaluation Factors for Climate Change Migration, Relocation, and Managed Retreat. Click here.

g. The six-page master checklist for climate change-safer land and home purchasing for climate change-driven migration, relocation, or managed retreat. Click here.

2. If you are looking for the essential emergency backup plans needed to ride out future climate-related extreme weather and disasters (or recover from them more quickly), please click here.

3. If you need information on the best actions to adapt to coming climate change consequences, please continue reading this page.

4. If you need immediate climate disaster recovery information after having just experienced a climate change-related extreme weather event involving any of the following; heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes ad cyclones, flooding, rain bombs, wind storms (Derechos), dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and abnormal unseasonal weather, please click here.

Introduction

Our climate change-related migration, relocation, or managed retreat online guide was costly and time-consuming to create. Moving to a new location and getting it wrong will also be very costly.

Therefore, you want to be sure you have all the best and most current climate change-related migration, relocation, or managed retreat information before making that challenging decision. Accordingly, we strongly recommend using our website's extensive Members section to complete your climate change-related migration, relocation, or managed retreat evaluation. 

For example, our Member's migration evaluation pages will thoroughly explain the migration, relocation, and managed retreat map (just below). These pages have a six-page migration land and home purchase checklist. (It took us four years and 17 weeks of staff travel at great expense to visit the many global warming safer areas to create a migration plus or minus checklist, optimal migration timeframes, and the other related migration information found in our comprehensive online guide.)

Currently, hedge funds, ultra-wealthy individuals, and investment banks are buying large amounts of land in many global warming safer locations. Prices are already rising significantly in safer global warming areas as more people relocate after each new series of climate change-related catastrophes.

Worse yet, migration restrictions in many nations keep getting more restrictive as more people migrate. Therefore, it is critical to evaluate as quickly as possible if you, your family, or your business need to migrate, relocate or begin a managed retreat in the foreseeable future!

And finally, we know of numerous well-informed climate change researchers who have already moved their families to climate change safer areas. When climate change researchers are already moving their families to safer places, it is a powerful warning climate change consequences will get very bad quickly, and you need to make the required climate change-related migration, relocation or managed retreat evaluations soon.

The Principles of Managed Retreat

Climate change-driven migration and relocation are often connected to the concepts of Managed Retreat. There are many powerful reasons for understanding the principles of Managed Retreat, as discussed in the list of 10 questions on this page.

Although this article begins talking about effective climate educational activism, down the page in the handout for politicians and local emergency services directors, it covers seldom discussed critical areas and factors to consider that can also affect your migration and relocation evaluation. (If you migrate to a place unprepared for these contingencies, you may not be able to get critical supplies when you need them.)

You will hear much about climate change-related Managed Retreat in the news as the emergency worsens. 

This page and the climate migration and relocation section of our Migration, Relocation, and Managed Retreat Online Guide is essential reading, mainly if you doubt relocation or migration may be necessary for you, your family, or your businesses. 

Successful migration because of climate change-related consequences and accelerating environmental deterioration is complex and challenging! Before you decide to migrate, read the dozens of migration pros and cons and how-to tips in our online guidebook. 

Please don't get caught migrating to the wrong place. Educate yourself thoroughly on what we have learned after years of research, physically visiting many locations, and much cost. 

"The wise will always see the patterns of the destabilizing climate or the worsening of the world's other crises a long time before the rest of the population. The wise will prepare their emergency supplies and the relationships they will need ahead of time so they, their families, and their businesses won't have to endure the worst of what's coming by being unprepared. 

The wise understand that an emergency is the worst time to find critical supplies and help because supplies quickly disappear, prices soar, and dependable outside governmental or non-profit organizational support occurs less and less frequently as the disasters grow in size, severity, and frequency." Lawrence Wollersheim

You will need to become a member to see all pages and checksheets in our Climate Change Migration, Relocation, and Managed Retreat Online Guide.

Becoming a member is easy and inexpensive, and you will get $42 in climate ebooks and other valuable climate information. Memberships keep our think tank independent and free because we are 100% publically funded.

There is far more in the Members section than our online guide's migration, relocation, and managed retreat sections. There is additional information that will make any climate change-related migration, relocation, or managed retreat safer, easier, and more profitable! 

You also help keep our 100% publicly funded climate change think tank speaking climate truth to power and the world when you become a member.

To begin the many pages of our Online Guide and become a member, click here! It will take you to the membership sign-up page. After you become a member, you will need to be signed in and be able to see all of the pages in the member's only section.

If you cannot afford any donation or membership and live at the poverty level or below in your region or nation, click here, and we will give you free scholarship access to all of our member-only materials. Everyone, not just the ultra-wealthy, should have access to critical climate change risk and threat assessment information.

Are you still in doubt about why you should join Job One for Humanity and become a member? If you still have ANY doubts about our continuously worsening climate change future and why many will need to relocate or migrate, please read the following links in the order given:

1. Today's Key Climate Change Facts

2. The four climate change extinction-evoking tipping points.

3. Are we headed toward a global warming-triggered extinction and collapse?

4. Here is a new article on climate migration that is well worth reading as it also includes the ideas of climate justice for those who migrate.

(This page was previously Action Step 6 in the preparation area of our website.)

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Can you believe that Facebook has blocked our last post because it supposedly violated community standards. Facebook's algorithms are now blocking legitimate client science and analysis from being shared in the FB climate news groups.

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Prologue

There are already thousands of lawsuits filed by individuals, businesses, states, and nations against the global fossil fuel cartel for the toxic and polluting damage its products cause in the form of climate change consequences. Our Climate Justice Now program and this page is designed for victims of climate change consequences and damages around a simple goal that embodies the most profound meaning of climate justice.

Our climate justice program is based on a simple legal principle:

Those who have caused, facilitated, or enabled climate change loss and damage must be forced to pay for that loss and damage and be held liable for any criminal actions committed while doing so.

If you disagree with this legal principle, there is no need for you to read any longer about how to recover the damages and losses you have suffered because of climate change consequences. If you do agree, this is a valid legal principle. Please continue with the materials and links on this page, designed to get you to the information you need to get your climate change justice.

Homeowners, businesses, insurance companies, innocent investors, local, county, state, or national governments, or their innocent taxpayers must never be required to pay for the climate change loss and damage caused by the intentional, decades-long acts of the perpetrators of climate change. 

After you are done reading these climate change damages recovery and litigation materials to help restore your financial losses, please share them with everyone else who has been harmed by climate change consequences. They deserve to be compensated, AND perpetrators of climate change also need to be punished, or it will never stop getting worse.

We strongly recommend that you do not start planning to rebuild or repair after a climate change disaster until you have read all of the Climate Justice Now program pages and you have read about locations that will be one climate change disaster after another. All of this information is found on this website, and it is free.

If you have not already done so, please do not go past this critical financial recovery educational background page before reading further! With documentation, it explains in great legal and scientific detail why the global fossil fuel cartel's decades of toxic carbon and methane pollution of your atmosphere and the decades and billions of dollars spent on their twisted global disinformation and misinformation campaigns have directly and indirectly caused the climate change damages you have suffered. Here, you will discover why they are fully legally and financially responsible for your climate change damages and the many other climate change damages going on around the world.)

At some additional point, much later in your climate change financial recovery process, you will also want to read our mock trial of the fossil fuel cartel on this website. We believe that while you may start out seeking recovery for your own damages, you will eventually grow to understand that your personal litigation, business or even state legal action also has great benefits for many others and society at large.

 

 

Overview

This article is for anyone (including businesses and state and national government officials) who has experienced climate change loss and damage and wants to receive reparations (financial restitution) for the climate change loss and damage.

Over 2,000 lawsuits in at least 28 countries have been filed against global fossil fuel cartel members. These lawsuits currently involve hundreds of billions of dollars in loss and damage actions. Recently, the US state of New York filed a major lawsuit holding fossil fuel companies responsible for the climate change-related damages that the state is incurring. California is now working on doing the same thing.

Over the next ten to fifteen years, it is estimated that the global fossil fuel cartel will eventually be forced to pay out trillions of dollars in loss and damage reparation payments to governments and in loss and damage judgments to private individuals and businesses in litigation worldwide. 

Eventually, the total worldwide climate change loss and damage payouts from all fossil fuel cartel litigation will be exponentially larger than all of the billions of dollars paid in cigarette, asbestos, and opioid judgments.

Keep in mind that this page is part three of the Climate Justice Now program. For later reading, the full Climate Justice Now program is described here. 

This page contains:

1. Key reasons to sue the global fossil fuel cartel for all climate change consequence-related loss and damage.

2. An overview of the thousands of current lawsuits against the global fossil fuel cartel for climate change consequence-related loss and damage.

3. Links to a continually growing global master list of evidence that has or can be used in litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel. (Click here for the evidence page.)

3. Essential tips for starting your lawsuit against the global fossil fuel cartel for climate change-related loss and damage.

4. How to find the right lawyer or law firm.

5. A listing of law firms and government agencies already handling climate change cases against the fossil fuel cartel.

6. The many reasons why mid-sized law firms will want to work with you on your private lawsuit for climate justice and big payouts, national media attention, and great public relations for themselves and their firms.

7. What you should know before you bring your lawsuit against the cartel.

8. Tips for lawyers, solicitors, and law firms on acquiring existing anti-fossil fuel cartel evidence submitted in other court cases, as well as tips for bringing your cartel litigation legal team up to speed as fast as possible.

9. Listings of other organizations and resources to help you, your business, or your nation with your successful lawsuit against the global fossil fuel cartel.

10. This article is also relevant to the climate change reparations movement for those nations that have suffered the consequences of climate change and were not responsible for creating it.

11. Suing the global fossil fuel cartel members for your climate change loss and damage will also help to save humanity from mass extinction by helping to prevent humanity's crossing the last chance atmospheric carbon 450 ppm (parts per million) tipping point.

(This page thoroughly explains the last chance for humanity that is lost when we cross the carbon 450 ppm tipping point.)

12. Information about how the Climate Justice Now program will also supercharge the global fossil fuel disinvestment movement. Every university endowment, pension fund, bank, or investment firm will divest of any fossil fuel assets and will want to quickly distance itself from anything to do with the growing public relations nightmare surrounding the global fossil fuel cartel's decades of horrendous crimes against humanity (as described in detail here).

13. Information about the worldwide climate change whistleblowers network and organization surfacing critical new witnesses.

14. If you are a US state Attorney General, a US municipal government, an equivalent legal authority in another nation, or a large law firm pursuing class action litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel, our organization is willing to provide special assistance to help get your litigation team up to speed. 

If you know of any individual, business, state, or nation that has suffered loss or damage due to the consequences of climate change, please share this article and the Climate Justice Now program with them as soon as possible. They will be glad you did. 

 

 

Introduction

This climate change loss, damage and disaster recovery and litigation page will direct you to the information and tools you will need to recover physically and financially from climate change-related extreme weather events or disasters involving property damage, investment loss, and death. (Here is a comprehensive master list of the primary and secondary climate change-related consequences.)

As you read all three parts of the Climate Justice Now program linked at the bottom of this page, you will discover for yourself that the actions and products of the global fossil fuel cartel have conclusively caused and continue to cause climate change and its many consequences.

This page will help you bring criminal charges against the perpetrators of climate change-related damages and losses where warranted. This page also has a growing list of worldwide law firms that will help ensure you get climate justice and are made financially whole from the climate change loss and damage caused directly and indirectly by the products and actions of the global fossil fuel cartel. 

Today, there are over 2,000 lawsuits against the global fossil fuel cartel and its oil, natural gas, and coal-producing members. 

It is estimated that over the next ten years, there will be thousands more lawsuits, and the global fossil fuel cartel will be forced to pay trillions in private, state, and national climate loss and damage litigation claims. This surge of global litigation against the cartel is not unlike the surge of litigation that happened with the cigarette, asbestos, and opioid conglomerates.

Worldwide cartel litigation is focused on forcing the global fossil fuel cartel to pay for the climate change loss and damage caused by its toxic, polluting products and its decades of behind-the-scenes criminal actions to prevent state, national, or international laws that would:

1. Mandate global fossil fuel reduction amounts and would

2. Develop, forward, or subsidize green energy generation or replacement systems for fossil fuel product applications.

In this surge of worldwide cartel litigation, many different types of climate victims are suing the cartel:

a. home buyers (who were not accurately told how climate change could or would risk or damage their home purchase by real estate brokers or mortgage companies)

b. farmers, farm cooperatives, and farmers’ associations. (Farmers are currently suffering massive financial losses from crop failures and low crop yields due to escalating climate change-related consequences. Climate change-driven extreme weather events are defined, in part, as heatwaves, heat domes, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, cyclones, tornados, floods, flooding, sea level rise, rain bombs, wind storms [Derechos], dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and other abnormal, unseasonal, or record-breaking weather related to rapidly accelerating climate change.)

c. business owners (who have suffered losses because of the many primary and secondary consequences of climate change)

d. investors (who were not accurately told how escalating climate change could or would threaten or risk their investments)

e. local governments and local agencies. (Local taxpayers are being forced to pay for cartel-caused climate change losses and damages that insurance company policies do not cover and that they did not cause.)

f. state attorney generals and national government agencies. State and national taxpayers are getting stuck with the soaring costs of climate change consequences as more insurance companies cancel climate change-exposed insurance policies. (More state attorney generals and government agencies are filing litigation against the cartel to recover the financial losses for their taxpayers.)

g. undeveloped nations who also have experienced vastly disproportional climate change loss and damage in relation to the total fossil fuel pollution they have produced or put in the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution about 1800 are now using the courts to recover their climate losses instead of continuing to beg and wait for the “too little too late” help they were promised at international climate conferences.

h. companies involved in green energy generation or green energy products. The fossil fuel cartel had extensive programs to stop or reduce green energy subsidies or stop or slow laws that would have made the global transition to green energy far easier and faster. Had it not been for the global fossil fuel cartel's anti-green energy actions, the world would be decades ahead in the green energy transition, and our current climate change consequences would be far less. (See this online trial for more information.)

Individuals, businesses, and government agencies are convicting the cartel, its executives, or enabling companies and individuals on one or more of the following criminal and civil legal charges.

Those civil and criminal charges are areas are:

a. product liability (for loss and damage caused by the cartel's toxic polluting products)

b. violations of consumer protection laws (for losses and damages caused by a cartel's products or actions).

c. Aiding and abetting the cartel's toxic pollution or other criminal activities. It's not just the cartel manufacturers of these deadly and destructive fossil fuel products being held liable anymore. A new precedent-setting case for widening the zone of cartel legal liability has just occurred. In the recent multi-billion-dollar US opioid cases, it was not just Purdue Pharmaceutical, the manufacturer of the opioids, that was held liable. Big-name distributors of Perdue's opioid products, like Walmart, Walgreens, and CVS drugstores, were also held liable for damages. 

Additionally, McKinsey & Company in the US was forced to pay 78 million dollars for its role in promoting the deadly opioid epidemic in the US. They were convicted of supplying deceptive marketing plans to boost the sales of Perdue's dangerous product. McKinsey & Company's deceptive marketing actions mirror the decades-long global climate change disinformation campaigns of the cartel.

(McKinsey & Company intentionally supplied disinformation to the public and others about the dangers of the Purdue Pharmaceutical-produced opioids. This 78 million dollar judgment opens the door to hold cartel lobbyists, PR firms, marketing firms, funding banks, or individuals legally responsible for cartel climate change loss and damage for their co-conspiratorial aiding and abetting roles. Many firms were involved in creating, promoting, enabling, facilitating, or financing the cartel's climate change disinformation, deceptive marketing, or the cartel's other coercive and illegal actions, which prevented society and its politicians from enacting the required fossil fuel reductions decades ago and accelerating the transition to a green energy economy. Worse yet, the cartel and its enablers have worked tirelessly to stop those who could have prevented the current and past harms of climate change consequences.

d. False advertising and false marketing.

e. negligence and gross negligence resulting in death, bodily harm, or destruction and loss because of the cartel's toxic, polluting products or the negligent or grossly negligent actions of a cartel or cartel agents.

f. racketeering, possibly even the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in the US (These charges and a conviction on this charge can and should be brought because of the decades of conspiratorial cartel disinformation and the cartel's long-term pattern of hidden coercive actions to unduly influence and prevent effective global fossil fuel reduction laws which would threaten their profits. For decades, the cartel has also actively blocked laws and subsidies that could have improved or accelerated the global transition to green energy generation and green energy applications.

g. first-degree murder (millions of deaths have been caused annually by the cartel's toxic, polluting products and their coercive global actions to prevent fossil fuel regulation. For decades, the cartel conclusively knew its products would kill millions and yet continued to sell them and hide their dangerous health and other side effects, like global warming.)

h. crimes against humanity because of the carefully orchestrated decades of crimes against humanity and humanity's future well-being, the international 28 trillion dollars a year cartel should be treated as a rogue nation and also face crimes against humanity charges. In addition to national trials, it should also be tried in the International Criminal Court and other national courts.)

The cartel has already killed an estimated 300 million people since the 1800s from its toxic and deadly polluting fossil fuel products. Escalating climate change today is causing worldwide mass migrations and resulting in the deaths of millions more annually (mostly poor and disadvantaged people). 

If allowed to continue unchecked, the cartel's total toxic product pollution and all of the primary and secondary climate change consequences of that toxic pollution will directly or indirectly kill about half of humanity by about 2050. (Click here to learn why such a massive climate change-driven human die-off is now all but unavoidable by 2050.)

i. Ecocide, if local law permits.

More on why you will want to successfully sue the global fossil fuel cartel members 

There are several critical reasons to begin your lawsuit against the global fossil fuel cartel and its members and executives:

1. Their products and actions have legitimately harmed you.

Be sure you have read this page, which details ALL of the continuous and vile actions of the global fossil fuel cartel, which have caused horrendous climate change consequences worldwide. (This page of cartel crimes and toxic pollution is written as an online public trial of the cartel.)

For 50+ years, the global fossil fuel cartel has known from its internal documents and scientist-created reports that its products will cause many forms of massive climate change loss and damage. For 50+ years, the global fossil fuel cartel has done everything and its power to prevent you from understanding how bad climate change loss and damage will be, how soon they will be occurring, and what the correct solutions are. They have also continuously prevented our governments from legislating the actual and required reductions in global fossil fuel use.

Because of these actions, the global fossil fuel cartel is fully responsible for the climate change-related loss and damage that you have experienced. Today, this information is widely known and proven. Today, more law firms worldwide are taking on new lawsuits on behalf of climate change victims and winning.

2. With every lawsuit filed, the fossil fuel industry has less profit and ability to continue to pollute our atmosphere and environment with its deadly, toxic poisons.

Your lawsuit will directly help save more lives, conserve resources, and protect the environment, as well as its animal species. Suing the global fossil fuel cartel may become the most successful means of reducing global fossil fuel use ever. 

It is time for a new, nonviolent, legal strategy to stop the cartel based on a simple principle that has worked unbelievably well for centuries.

Take the perpetrator(s) to court and remove all profits from continuing the wrongdoing. Removing the perpetrator's ill-gotten gains will also deprive them of the means to continue their harmful and deadly acts against humanity.

3. To date, no climate change treaty, no international climate change conference (like the United Nations COP conferences), and not even decades of massive global climate change street protests have slowed or stopped climate change and global warming from worsening at even faster rates!

The danger is so great that it is time to bypass misinformed, cowardly, or compromised politicians and governments and act directly to remove all profit from the wrongdoing of killing millions of people and destroying the future of humanity. 

The way we bypass misinformed, cowardly, or compromised politicians and governments is to enact the Climate Justice NOW program. This new program is critical because:

1. It exposes the actual perpetrators of climate change and reveals facts that the perpetrators would rather keep hidden. 

2. It enables victims of climate change consequences to obtain restitution and justice from the perpetrators of climate change. 

3. It diverts all the profit from the climate change perpetrator's wrongful actions and diminishes the perpetrator's resources and ability to continue such wrongful actions against all humanity and biological life.

4. No climate change treaty, no international climate change conference (the United Nations' COP conferences), and not even the decades of massive climate change street protests worldwide have stopped or even slowed climate change from worsening at even faster rates! If we do not find a better way to actually reduce global fossil fuel use, about half of humanity will perish by about 2050. 

There is no doubt amount the climate change informed that our politicians and governments have utterly failed to control escalating climate change. The best proof of their complete failure is the rising amounts of carbon dioxide (C02) and methane (CH4) in our atmosphere.

Here is the simple proof that we are not making ANY climate change reduction progress, which the global fossil fuel cartel never wants you to see.

Atmospheric carbon and methane levels are the most valid and objective measurements that show whether our politicians, governments, and environmental groups are making honest progress in addressing climate change. From this atmospheric carbon graph just above and the methane graph further down this page, it becomes painfully evident that anyone who is telling you that we are making real or meaningful progress on fixing climate change and preventing escalating climate change catastrophe after catastrophe, either: 

1. does not know how to read an atmospheric carbon or methane graph (both of which are getting worse at faster rates), or

2. does not understand the complex climate change science, mathematics, and physics, or 

3. has financial interests in keeping the global public ignorant of the current real danger and risk level of climate change. (Click here to see humanity's real climate change risk level.) or

4. Is lying through their teeth.

The graph below shows the painful story of the three major fossil fuel-burning atmospheric greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and Nitrous Oxide (N2O). The numbers at the bottom of the illustration below are the AD dates in history. The IPCC is the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. AR6 is the IPCC's climate summary report. NOAA is the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. PPB is parts per billion. PPM is parts per million.

Please notice how fast greenhouse gases have risen in the gray vertical rectangles on the right. Also, at around 1800 AD, greenhouse gases increased far beyond any earlier levels. The Industrial Revolution, which began around 1800 AD, marked the start of the fossil fuel-burning era. Particularly, notice how, from about 1950 to 1980, the rates of toxic and poisonous greenhouse gases going into our atmosphere began rising exponentially. 

After looking at the above two best fossil fuel reduction progress graphs that show the result of everything humanity has done to try to reduce global fossil fuel use over the last 4-6 decades, only someone in complete denial or is delusional would say we are making and fossil fuel reduction progress, or that what we are currently doing to reduce fossil fuel use is working at all!

Our accelerating global heating and extinction threat is now so great that we have no other choice but to bypass the disinformed, compromised, or cowardly politicians and governments. We must now act directly by utilizing the three components of the Climate Justice Now program.

This new program will eventually help remove all global profit from the climate change perpetrators' acts, which are killing millions of people and destroying the future of humanity. 

4. If you are still unsure of why or how you can, or if you really want to sue the global fossil fuel cartel and its members successfully, we strongly recommend that you read this page on what the global fossil fuel cartel has done to harm you, your business, your nation, and many, many others and our world.

When you read how and why you want to sue the fossil fuel cartel, you also get to be a reader/jury member at the cartel trial found on this page. At the end of this page, you will be asked to vote on the cartel's guilt using an online survey form. If you read this page on what the global fossil fuel cartel has done to harm you and others, we strongly doubt that you will let the fossil fuel cartel get away with not paying you restitution for the harm that you have suffered.

5. Please do not forget that with every new lawsuit filed (and its subsequent media coverage), you will also be supercharging the global fossil fuel disinvestment movement. 

Your lawsuit will help motivate every university endowment, pension fund, bank, or investment firm to divest of any fossil fuel assets and quickly distance themselves from anything to do with a growing public relations nightmare surrounding growing disclosures about the global fossil fuel cartel's decades of horrendous crimes against humanity (as described in detail here). Divestment also takes away the cartel's resources to keep harming others.

6. You will also help the world's poorer nations recover from the climate change losses and damages caused by fossil fuel emissions. New lawsuits against the cartel by nations also help those nations get paid for the losses and damages their nation has experienced because of the fossil fuel cartel's products and actions. Nations that have experienced significant loss and damage due to climate change should not be begging other, more developed nations that have produced more fossil fuel pollution for their climate change loss and damage restitution payments. If they want to be successful fast, they should be demanding these payments from the global fossil fuel cartel through vigorous and aggressive litigation.

7. The massive cancellations of property and mortgage insurance and re-insurance companies. Click here for a stinging article on the massive number of painful reinsurance and insurance cancellations and soaring property and mortgage insurance costs going on worldwide in medium to high-risk climate change areas. The shock of these sudden and costly insurance cancellations or soaring rates for homes, businesses, and farms is finally breaking through climate change denial worldwide and powerfully motivating more people to bring lawsuits against the global fossil fuel cartel.

The number of worldwide lawsuits for climate change loss and damage against the global fossil fuel cartel is growing fast

The number of cases focused on the damage caused by global climate change and the climate change emergency has doubled since 2015, bringing the total number to over 2,000, according to a report released last year by European researchers. More than 28 countries are now suing the global fossil fuel cartel for climate change loss and damage.

More than two dozen US cities and states are suing big oil, alleging the fossil fuel industry knew for decades about the dangers of burning coal, oil, and gas and actively hid that information from consumers and investors. 

Since 2017, seven states, 35 municipalities, the District of Columbia, and one industry trade association have sued major fossil fuel corporations and lobbying groups on these grounds. Scores of new cases against the cartel, based on its 50 years of disinformation and regulation-preventing practices, are grounded in some combination of four different legal theories: tort law, product liability, consumer protection, and, most recently, racketeering.

Private law firms and governments alike worldwide now see the potential for trillions of dollars in winning eventual jury awards against the world's largest and wealthiest corporate entity, the global fossil fuel cartel. They also see that there is now greater access to current and former employees willing to testify against their employers to limit their own liability or be good citizens.

It is not just the cartel companies and executives with deep, cash-rich pockets. Many other cartel enablers and facilitators, including those at lobbying firms, PR firms, pension funds, and investment firms, have also contributed to the chain of climate loss and damage. Their deep pockets will also contribute to increasing the ongoing restitution judgments.

Many mid-sized law firms that have never represented global fossil fuel cartel-related companies view getting involved in new lawsuits against the cartel as a quick opportunity to expand into larger law firms.

Additionally, savvy law firms will get other companies to join the new lawsuits directly or in Amicus Curiae (friends of the court) briefs. Firms like insurance companies, mortgage companies, solar and wind companies, and a host of other companies that do not want to get stuck with paying for climate loss and damage themselves, or who have also been harmed by 60 years of cartel disinformation and regulation-thwarting actions, could contribute valuable staffing and evidence to ongoing litigation. (Click here for a recent article on insurance and mortgage companies not wanting to get stuck paying for cartel-caused climate loss and damage.)

Legally, it is a terrible time for fossil fuel cartel companies and their senior executives, and it will get much worse!

To help you get started, make the selection below that is most relevant to your most immediate need:

1. Please see step one below if you are still in physical danger from a recent climate change, extreme weather event, or disaster.

2. If you have just experienced a climate change-related extreme weather event involving any heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes and cyclones, flooding, rain bombs, wind storms (Derechos), dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and abnormal unseasonal weather and, you need to begin the process for financial recovery and restitution continue to read this page.

3. For a list of worldwide law firms that may be able to take on climate change cases to assist the victims of climate change, go to the bottom of Step 2 on this page.

4. If you are looking for the essential emergency backup plans and actions needed to ride out future climate-related extreme weather and other climate change-related disasters, please click here.

5. If you need information on the best actions for adaptations for the next wave of worsening climate change consequences, please go to this page.

6. If you would like our comprehensive climate change migration evaluation and potential relocation information, please click here. 

7. If you are interested in being involved in a supportive community teaching climate change resilience and helping communities worldwide become more climate change resilient, click here.

Please be sure to share this page with everyone you know who has also suffered direct or indirect climate change loss and damage. It will help them, and it will help stop the perpetrators of climate change from profiting from the pain, suffering, and death of millions of people.

How to get started with your legal action against the global fossil fuel cartel

If you have suffered any climate change-related (extreme weather-related) damage or destruction to your home or business caused by heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes and cyclones, flooding, rain bombs, wind storms (Derechos), dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and abnormal unseasonal weather, you have our deepest sympathy. 

Please use the following instructions to prevent any additional climate-related suffering and loss and to help recover financially from the climate change-related loss and damage you have unjustly experienced, mainly because of the criminal actions of others.

This climate change recovery assistance document is divided into several main sections. The purpose of each part is to help you to:

a. Understand the true cause of your losses and what you did not cause. (This critical must-read first page will help you understand the real cause of your climate change losses.)

b. Recover financially from ALL loss and damage you have suffered as quickly as possible by using several different legal approaches and links to law firms specializing in assisting climate change victims. (See bottom of section 2.)

c. Prevent this level and kind of painful loss, damage, and suffering from ever happening to you again, especially as global warming continues to escalate.

Never forget the global fossil fuel cartel is the wealthiest single corporate structure in the world, with over 28 trillion dollars a year in revenue. Depending upon your case's circumstances, your attorneys will not only be able to sue the cartel but also the "deep pockets" of cartel-related corporations that aided or facilitated climate change disinformation and damages. Those firms include hedge funds, investment banking firms, pension plans, insurance companies, and even government agencies that failed to accurately inform you of pending climate change consequence risks, and in some cases, their abject failure to manage those risks as their ordinary due diligence would require.

Step 1: If you are still in any current physical danger or need from the climate-related extreme weather or disaster, immediately call or contact your local emergency services for help.

This climate change disaster recovery assistance document assumes you have already searched out and been in contact with your local, regional, or national governmental emergency responders and local non-profit emergency support organizations to ask for the various support and assistance to which you are legally entitled and which those organizations are legally or ethically required to provide to you in times of emergency. Contacting these organizations immediately after a global warming-aggravated disaster will ensure you get the immediate post-crisis temporary physical support you will need.

Once you receive this temporary physical support, you will be ready to seek additional compensation and restitution for the aggravated climate change-caused loss and damage you did not cause! The following sections will take you through the actions you must follow so that those truly responsible for your loss and damage pay for the suffering they have created in your life, family, or business.

Step 2: Get financial restitution for what has happened to you because of the greed-driven, intentional, and malicious acts of the global fossil fuel cartel. File your lawsuit NOW!

If you have not done so already, read this page first. It is essential to get your financial restitution for what happened. It will help you understand who did this to you, how, and why, and then return to the page below. 

As you will discover, it is near certain that the climate change-aggravated loss and damage you have suffered are directly or indirectly due to the intentional acts, negligence, or gross negligence of fossil fuel cartel companies, insurance companies, mortgage companies, or even government agencies that have knowingly either created global warming or have withheld vital climate change risk information from you and the public relating to the currently known or coming consequences of climate change for your local, state or national area. Current litigation against the cartel or the other companies who failed to inform you of known climate change risks, or engaged in active climate change disinformation, or actively prevented our governments from fixing climate change is based on some combination of four different legal theories: tort law, product liability, consumer protection – and, most recently, racketeering.

It is probable that by bringing lawsuits individually or by bringing class action lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, various government agencies, and the other types of companies or fossil fuel pollution corporations described above, you will be able to collect all or part of the greatest part of the costs and damages that you have suffered.

How to Find the right lawyer or law firm?

Many lawyers and major law firms are already keenly aware of the deep financial pockets of the fossil fuel industry, insurance companies, mortgage companies, investment firms, real estate companies, and government, city, or state agencies. 

To help you find the right legal representation, we have provided lists of law firms and climate change litigation-support groups further down this page that are working to assist victims in collecting climate change losses and damages from the global fossil fuel cartel. You can also find local legal representation by calling your state or national lawyers' or solicitors' association and asking them for a list of local attorneys or solicitors specializing in environmental or product liability lawsuits.

As a general rule of thumb, try to get the larger law firms to take your case. This principle is because larger law firms have the financial resources to go against wealthy corporations and are often more aware of the successes or difficulties of similar lawsuits worldwide. This wealth enables them to quickly adjust their legal strategies and evidence on the fly for maximum success. Larger law firms are also more likely to monitor new lawsuit filings from other cities, counties, and state governments that are also filing lawsuits against fossil fuel companies for the climate change-aggravated loss and damage that they have caused in other areas.

When searching for a lawyer or law firm, we strongly recommend only going with firms that will take your case on contingency. Contingency means you do not have to pay for any legal costs unless they win the case. If they win, they take a fixed pre-agreed percentage of the final judgment, and you get the balance.

Do not hire any attorney or law firm that either cites a high upfront cost to take your case, doesn't believe in the merits of your case, or doesn't understand climate change-aggravated or caused loss and damage. Avoid any attorney or firm that is strongly unsure of their ability to win your case and those who feel they are too small and under-resourced to go up against big fossil fuel companies, insurance companies, real estate companies, mortgage companies, or governmental, city, or state agencies. 

It may take a while to find the right law firm willing to take on your case or create a class action lawsuit for all individuals in your area who have also suffered similar loss and damage. Be patient and persistent. When you find the right lawyer or law firm, your lawsuit will likely pay off for you and society. 

Now that you understand more about the causes, perpetrators, and history of escalating climate change, you are ready to search for the right law firm to help you bring your lawsuit(s) against the following potential parties:

a. The global fossil fuel cartel, which caused this global warming problem. 

b. any individual real estate, insurance, mortgage, or investment company who also failed to execute their ethical, moral, and legal responsibility to fully disclose and inform you that your property or investment was in an unsafe high-risk climate change and global warming risk area at the time of purchase or when they insure, reinsured or sold it to you. And, as a last resort,

c. Any relevant government agencies that should have protected you with the proper advanced information about your local global warming-related risks. This can mean city, county, state, or national governments, especially local zoning and planning departments (who had a due diligence obligation to know the true climate change risks of your area).

They all had the ethical and legal responsibility to update their zoning maps and regulations to create accurate assessments of all climate change high-risk zones, given the numerous long-known consequences of climate change. They also had the ethical and legal responsibility to inform you that you were in a high-risk area by requiring real estate, insurance, and mortgage companies operating within their jurisdictions to also fully disclose to you these high-risk danger zones at the time of your property purchase when you received your mortgage, when you purchased your home or mortgage insurance or when you sought a permit to remodel. 

Many cities in California and New York (see articles further below) are currently filing lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry in the state (not federal) courts only for the damages to their cities that climate change has already caused, such as flooding from sea level rise and the extreme storms and storm surges aggravated by climate change. (Federal courts are temporarily more challenging to bring these kinds of lawsuits.

Never forget that every time the fossil fuel industry is penalized financially for its wrongdoing, it becomes less profitable for it to continue to cause global climate change loss and damage for everyone. Until all profit is removed from such wrongdoing, it will continue, and more people will continue to be harmed.

Remember that you may receive financial restitution much sooner than expected. In many cases, the organizations being sued would rather agree to an out-of-court settlement instead of going to court, where a jury may award a much larger damage judgment and even add punitive damages far above what you ask for. 

When you find the right law firm, remember you are in it for the long haul to get restitution and justice! These fossil fuel companies have been profiting at extreme levels for many decades on the pain, suffering, and harm to the health and lives of others. They have known for decades that their products would cause every one of the 20 worst global warming consequences. 

Maintain the attitude that, because of their intentional acts, negligence, lack of due diligence, and other crimes, these organizations will inevitably pay for all the loss and damage they have done to you and everyone else they have damaged and harmed. 

If you're also bringing a lawsuit against various government agencies, they, too, must be held responsible for failing to properly inform the public of all known consequences and risks that would affect you and the safety or future value of your property. Unfortunately, in some countries, climate change's real risks and consequences have been intentionally hidden from the public because of lavish cash campaign "donations" by the fossil fuel cartel and its lobbyists. These "donations" have acted to influence your politicians unduly and improperly. That alone may become additional evidence and grounds for further proof of intentionality against the fossil fuel cartel companies in a carefully crafted lawsuit.

It bears repeating that, wherever possible, bring lawsuits against government agencies, real estate agents, mortgage companies, investment firms, zoning departments, and insurance companies that failed to adequately inform you of climate change threats to your home or business location. Most of these other organizations have "deep pockets" and have also been known for decades, or should have long known (if they were conducting the proper level of legal due diligence), about the real risks and consequences of climate change and global warming. Yet, they still failed to disclose those risks when you purchased your home, business, or related policies.

Because of their failure to properly inform you of the actual climate change risks in your area, they also carry responsibility for the avoidable damage and suffering you have experienced. As a general policy and wherever allowable, your lawyers and law firms should always include these organizations in your lawsuit. 

(Click here to learn more about the widely known and grossly underestimated climate change risks, consequences, timetables, and solutions widely used by companies and governments, which demonstrate their gross negligence or lack of proper due diligence when they were given climate change risk-related information. Even a cursory online search would have disclosed that the climate data they used for their climate risk disclosures was widely challenged by credible sources and deeply flawed.)

There's other good news when you find the right law firm. They do ALL the work and research necessary to win the case. It will not consume much of your valuable recovery time, other than finding the right law firm. 

At most, you may be called to testify if it goes to trial. This law firm-driven restitution process means you can move on with rebuilding your life while your law firm pushes the lawsuit forward and the subsequent judgment collection in the background.

Additionally, note that increasing litigation against the cartel will also have a significant side effect, as it will benefit all future litigation against the cartel related to climate change loss and damage. Once senior executives in the cartel member companies or cartel lobbying firms, public relations firms, or marketing firms realize that they personally and their firms can also be held criminally and financially liable for cartel actions and conspiracies, they will quickly begin turning into whistleblowers and witnesses. Not because they have had a real change of heart or have developed genuine empathy for the victims of their greed, but because they want to quickly trade their testimony for criminal immunity (or protection where needed,) and they want to swiftly distance their firms from the cartel's growing public relations and litigation nightmare. This means there will be a growing pool of willing former cartel witnesses to help your lawyers with your case.

Finally, always be sure that your attorney, solicitor, law firm, or appropriate government agency staff read ALL of the Climate Justice Now (which are linked at the bottom of this page) to get up to speed as quickly as possible about the best strategies and connections for bringing or advancing litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel and its members.

A tsunami of new lawsuits will soon be filed against the cartel. If you have suffered loss and damage due to climate change, file your suit as quickly as possible to ensure priority in collecting your judgment.

A quick snapshot of ongoing worldwide climate change litigation news

• Why Climate change lawsuits are surging. By the BBC
• Over the last 12 months, further legal cases have been brought against fossil fuel companies, especially outside the United States. 
• Five areas to watch in the coming year are cases involving personal responsibility; cases challenging commitments that over-rely on greenhouse gas removals or ‘negative emissions’ technologies; cases focused on short-lived climate pollutants; cases explicitly concerned with the climate and biodiversity nexus; and strategies exploring legal recourse for the ‘loss and damage’ resulting from climate change.
• Recent litigation has commonalities with the need to increase ambition and action from countries and phase down the use of all fossil fuels across the energy sector.
• The number of climate litigation cases with strategic ambition (i.e., to bring about a broader societal shift) continues to rise.
• Around one-quarter of the 2,000 lawsuits filed were filed between 2020 and 2022.
• Climate litigation has become an effective instrument for enforcing or enhancing climate commitments made by governments, with 73 ‘framework’ cases challenging governments’ overall responses to climate change.
• This 11.3.23 update comes from the Desmog website. ("Honolulu first sued 10 fossil fuel companies — including BP, Chevron, Shell, ExxonMobil, and Aloha Petroleum — in March 2020, in an attempt to hold these companies accountable for alleged deception over the climate risks of their products. Although the defendants have attempted to have the case thrown out, the Hawaii Supreme Court rejected the arguments for dismissing the case on appeal on Tuesday. This will be the first [climate liability] case to go to a jury,” Patrick Parenteau, emeritus professor of law and senior fellow for climate policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School, told DeSmog. He called the ruling a “breakthrough.”).
• Another brand new precedent case for widening the zone of legal liability has just occurred. McKinsey & Company in the US was forced to pay 78 million dollars for its role in promoting the deadly opioid epidemic in the US. They were convicted of supplying deceptive marketing plans to boost the sales of this dangerous product. Not unlike the cartel, they supplied disinformation to the public and others about the dangers of opioids. This now means that all lobbyists, PR firms, investment banks, and bankers are also legally responsible for cartel climate change loss and damage for their role in creating, promoting, or financing climate change disinformation or other activities, which prevented society and its politicians from enacting the required fossil fuel reductions starting six decades ago which could have prevented the harms caused to its victims.
• A growing number of senior former fossil fuel executives and even some current fossil fuel executives are having second thoughts about what they did and what they ordered. They are looking to offer documents and testimony supporting fossil fuel liability cases. They are not doing this entirely because they feel ashamed. They are also doing it to avoid personal liability. If you are in this category or know someone in it, do not send them to Job One. Send them directly to the attorney general or chief prosecuting attorney for your local or national government, and send them to attorneys handling class action or large lawsuits against the cartel.
• Here is a 2022 quick summary of climate change litigation.

• Kids Sued Montana over Climate Change and Won. Click here for details.

• More to come soon as we are notified.

The tide is definitely turning against the global fossil fuel cartel in regard to lawsuits involving climate change loss and damage. See the following links:

https://www.ucsusa.org/about/news/supreme-court-rejects-fossil-fuel-companies-petitions-hear-appeals-climate-lawsuits

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042023/supreme-court-fossil-fuel-climate-change-lawsuits/

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-supreme-court-ruling-the-fossil-fuel-industry-doesnt-like

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118188330/federal-judges-deal-the-oil-industry-another-setback-in-climate-litigation

To help you prepare for what you will experience in your lawsuit and at court

Here is how the cartel's prominent law firms will react to you filing a lawsuit against them. Please read this before contacting a law firm.

It is essential to be realistic about what will happen after you file your lawsuit against one or more members of the global fossil fuel cartel. You will need to be patient, trust your law firm, and develop a thick skin for riding out the many ups and downs that you will experience during the process of your litigation. 

Ultimately, your lawsuit against the cartel, if successful, will likely have more societal and financial corrective effects in stopping the cartel's decades of criminal behavior than many climate activist actions currently underway or in the past.

However, once you file your lawsuit, you and your legal team should expect the following.

1. Like the cigarette corporation or asbestos or opioid company litigation, the cartel's law firms will attempt to bury your legal team in document requests, motions, and appeals for almost anything they can legally do to dissuade or delay you and your team and to push you toward an out-of-court confidential settlement. They will constantly threaten you that they will drag you through years of expensive litigation and even more years of appeal after appeal, eventually to the highest court in your country.

Remember, global cigarette and asbestos companies eventually paid many billions of dollars in judgments and settlements. All their threats, delays, and posturing did nothing to prevent them from eventually paying for their toxic products and actions. The global fossil fuel cartel has many thousands of times more assets than the global cigarette and asbestos companies combined. Those aggressively pursuing litigation against the cartel for climate change loss and damage from its toxic products and actions will be richly rewarded in many ways.

Hopefully, your mid-sized law firm will quickly gather the charges, motions, and evidence lists from previous similar cartel litigation. Your wise law firm will be able to borrow much of the necessary motion replies and evidence submissions from the well-done, successful work in other civil, criminal court, and government agency cases, saving itself much time and expense.

It also would help if you remember that time is now working primarily against the cartel, unlike in previous cigarette company litigation. The longer the cartel tries to delay and extend your and other legal actions, the greater the demand will grow from the outside general public for swift and strong climate change justice. This change in the time advantages in litigation will occur because, as more people are harmed worldwide by climate change consequences, more people will become aware of and upset with the actual source causing that climate change-related harm. There will be numerous additional lawsuits being filed worldwide, prompting the cartel's law firms to push even harder for quicker, confidential settlements at higher rates.

Make no mistake about this, an eventual settlement is a quick survival strategy on the part of the cartel. They will not do this to be good corporate citizens. They will do this to focus their efforts on other, more prominent, and more extensive potential loss cases. They will also be doing this to try to figure out how to transfer their valuable assets out of their corporations without violating the state or national bankruptcy laws. Once again, there is terrible news for the cartel. Bankruptcy laws have been improving in their ability to claw back asset transfers made after the fact to defeat known pending legal actions, judgments, and liabilities.

Although each case and situation is different, we recommend that you do not accept a confidential settlement where the amount of money the fossil fuel cartel is paying you must be kept secret. The more others know about successful climate change litigation and successful payouts, the more people will sue to be made financially whole from the loss and damage caused by the global fossil fuel cartel. This litigation success knowledge will not only lead to more people being made financially whole due to climate change-related loss and damage, it will also eventually result in less fossil fuels being burned and in the atmosphere, which will give humanity a better and better chance of surviving this nightmare.

Hopefully, you will be able to hold your position against a confidential settlement so that it is not just you getting financial restitution; it is also you protecting the future of your children, grandchildren, and humanity.

2. The cartel's big law firms are currently very unsuccessfully trying to "blame the victims" for the loss and damage of climate change rather than their clients. They are trying to say that if you, I, and our businesses had conserved energy, there wouldn't be these climate change losses and damages.

The good news about this idiotic argument is that their lawyers are arguing a position that is ridiculously easy to defeat. For at least 40 years, the fossil fuel cartel, in dirty behind-the-scenes actions, has been doing everything it can to defeat government efforts to enforce and regulate conservation activities. If that were not enough, for the last 40 years, the cartel has also been doing everything it can to prevent the rapid scaling up and widespread use of green energy generation systems and technologies. 

The cartel has been doing these things because the last thing the cartel wants to do is make less money. Promoting conservation and the widespread adoption of green energy generation and green technology was not only the last thing the cartel wanted to happen; it actively worked to ensure it did not occur.

3. Your midsize law firm must continually present the jury with the facts that it has been a long-term legal practice and legal precedent that any corporation whose product poisons and kills or disables people in the surrounding area is liable for those damages. It does not matter if those products poison the surrounding population quickly, slowly, or even over decades with various cancers or other causes. It does not matter if the surrounding population was poisoned with one quick strike, as in the Bhopal toxic gas explosion in India, or slowly, like numerous towns around the world that have had to be abandoned because of industrial toxic pollution.

There have been thousands of successful cases holding corporations financially responsible for the adverse, fast, or slow, toxic effects of their products. Burning fossil fuels creates poisonous carbon-based chemical pollution in the atmosphere, as well as other toxic chemical pollutants. Toxic chemical and other toxic agent damage lawsuits have resulted in some of the largest financial judgments ever rendered. 

Once you agree on a mid-sized law firm for your case, ask them to quickly collect all existing evidence exhibits from past or pending government agency cases against the cartel. These will be public records.

This way, the law firm does not have to "reinvent the wheel" or possibly re-verify evidence that has already been admitted into evidence and authenticated elsewhere. This collection of existing evidence from prior or pending major cases against the cartel will save time and money, enabling the firm to get up to speed quickly.

Let one success build upon another wherever applicable. Always mention the benefits of this access to existing evidence when interviewing law firms, as well as the rising tide of lawsuits against the cartel mentioned above.

4. You, your law firm, or your lead attorney must always consider bringing your large case, class action, or governmental lawsuit before the International Criminal Court. When the cartel loses at the International Criminal Court level, it will have a significant impact on its political and public relations. It can strengthen your collection position and inspire others to do the same.

5. You must always consider that you may lose your case because of some circumstance(s) beyond your control. As the cartel loses more and more cases worldwide, it will attempt to buy politicians to persuade them to pass new laws that make it more difficult or impossible to sue the cartel for the loss and damage it's causing. However, even this trusted old tactic will become increasingly challenging to execute as more people worldwide suffer from increasingly severe climate change-related loss and damage, as is currently happening.

6. Litigation against the cartel will eventually turn into a race between harmed cities, states, nations, individuals, and businesses in individual or class action lawsuits regarding who will file the earliest and who will get the biggest judgments while the trillions of dollars in global fossil fuel cartel assets are still available or can be clawed back.

Competent Law firms and state attorney generals (and their international equivalents) know that they are in a race to file their actions and push them forward as fast as possible before the global fossil fuel cartel can coerce its many compromised worldwide politicians to try to pass new laws that would grant complete immunity to the cartel for all loss and damage from their toxic, polluting products and their decades of conspiratorial and racketeering criminal actions. 

Unfortunately for the cartel, by the time new cartel immunity laws are possible, there will be so many new lawsuits that cannot be granted immunity retroactively, and the public will be much better informed. No politician who wants to stay in office would publicly vote for ridiculous and now toxic new cartel immunity laws.

Brace yourself for a bumpy litigation road. If you are persistent and hold onto forwarding your case, you will most likely be rewarded in more ways than you can imagine. The legitimate seeking of necessary individual and social justice is ultimately transformational.

Tips for lawyers, solicitors, and law firms for bringing your anti-cartel litigation legal team up to speed.

1. Contact other attorneys and attorney generals with existing cases and request copies of useful submitted evidence.

2. Have your attorneys and legal research team read the following pages to get them up to speed quickly and to get them thinking about the many possible ways to frame and prosecute your cartel case in your location.

a. The online master trial of the cartel is found here.

b. The continually updated evidence page is found here.

3. Be sure to contact the whistleblowers organization below to see who is new and who might be available.

4. Always cooperate and share with other legal firms prosecuting the global fossil fuel cartel. You will be amazed at what you get and will not have to reinvent the wheel. Additionally, the social benefits of bringing the cartel's death machine to justice as quickly as possible also have a direct impact on you and your family's future.

5. It will not be long before many of the world's 193 countries that have suffered climate change loss and damages start their lawsuits against the cartel's obscene profits and huge assets. Undoubtedly, many individual states and local communities worldwide will also seek to file lawsuits for their losses and damages separately. No national, state, or local government that wants to remain solvent and popular will want to make its taxpayers pay for the ever-escalating climate change loss and damage done by the cartel's toxic, polluting products or criminal actions.

You are not alone! There are Hero and Heroine Climate Change Whistleblowers

There is now several worldwide Climate Change WhistleBlower support organizations helping to surface and protect old and new witnesses willing to speak to the media and in trial courts about the many past and ongoing crimes of the global fossil fuel cartel. 

1. The Climate Whistleblowers are an NGO dedicated to the protection of climate whistleblowers. CW protects individuals who expose climate-related wrongdoing and ensures that their disclosures have an impact.

From a banker denouncing a fossil financing project to a government scientist being silenced, from an employee denouncing greenwashing practices to an engineer revealing mass deforestation, many can turn into climate whistleblowers. CW is the first organization to focus on climate whistleblowers, which will help protect individuals from climate-related crimes and, more broadly, promote sustainable development.

CW acts as a shield for these climate sentinels. Through their work as lawyers, journalists, and activists, experienced whistleblowers’ advocates behind CW have learnt to protect them and ensure their disclosures are impactful. It empowers climate whistleblowers through its legal, scientific, and human network. The whistleblowing policy is governed by the Whistleblower Protection Act.

For the Climate WhistleBlowers Website, click here.

Laura Paquemar is a Project officer at Climate Whistleblowers.

2. The National Whistleblower Center (NWC) was founded in 1988 by three experienced whistleblower attorneys – Stephen M. Kohn, Michael D. Kohn, and David K. Colapinto – to educate the public about the plight of whistleblowers at the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant.

The first high-impact case that NWC supported challenged an industry-wide practice of coercing employees into signing non-disclosure agreements that prohibited them from raising safety concerns to federal regulators. NWC garnered support in Congress, the U.S. Court of Appeals, the Department of Labor and before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) despite well-financed opposition in the nuclear industry and one of its prime construction contractors.

The precedents set were groundbreaking. All the “hush money” agreements, industry-wide, were voided. Years later, these precedents were relied on by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in its historic ruling banning restrictive non-disclosure agreements in corporate America.

NWC has remained dedicated to protecting all whistleblowers, regardless of industry, nationality, or type of wrongdoing. With the help of our hundreds of thousands of grassroots supporters, we have achieved successes like establishing National Whistleblower Day and adding key whistleblower protections into the Dodd-Frank Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, and numerous other federal laws.

For the National Whistleblower Center, click here.

You are not alone! Master list of law firms and support organizations handling climate change loss and damage cases

We are currently in the process of adding more law firms. If you are aware of a law firm anywhere in the world that is involved in litigation against companies or individuals in the global fossil fuel cartel to obtain restitution for climate change victims, please provide us with their name and contact information as soon as possible so we can add them to the list below.

Remember that lawsuits against cartel companies and key individuals will most likely do more to end the climate change emergency and rising global warming faster than any of the previous actions activists have engaged in.

While only 2,000 cases are pending worldwide against fossil fuel companies and individuals as of 10.18.23, we estimate that because of new US and foreign rulings at higher than trial court levels, there will be about 8,000 cases by 2026 and 20,000 cases by 2030.

Always treat the lawyers, attorney generals, district attorneys, government or private solicitors, or government agency executives working on lawsuits against the global fossil fuel cartel for the climate change loss and damage it has caused as the new heroes of the climate change remedial movement. They are as much of a climate change hero or heroine as James Hansen, Al Gore, Bill McKibben, or Greta Thunberg. 

Many believe it will be these lawyers and government agency executives who will eventually bring the global fossil fuel cartel to its knees and be a deciding force in the battle to stop the climate change emergency.

Please remember that there are many bright and courageous law firms worldwide who would love to gain widespread positive publicity while helping their clients receive what will likely be the most significant damage and restitution payments in litigation history.

Current lawsuits against the fossil fuel cartel by cities, states, nations, or other relevant government agencies 

Below are the private and government lawyers who are heroes and heroines, aggressively pushing forward climate change justice and indirectly helping to mitigate climate change.

Although we know of numerous other US state or international lawsuits that are being prepared for filing, we will not list them on this page until they have been physically filed with the courts. Government-level litigation against the cartel requires extensive evaluation of evidence, witnesses, and law before a lawsuit is filed.

Here is a quick look at some of the 2,000 + current lawsuits against the cartel:

1. Currently, California attorney general Rob Bonta and the attorney general Letitia James for the state of New York in the U.S. are suing the fossil fuel cartel for billions in damages. California is suing the oil companies BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and ConocoPhillips, as well as their trade group, the American Petroleum Institute. The law firm of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann, and Bernstein is the named co-counsel in the California case. For more information on the lead California case, click here.
2. Oregon's Multnomah County has sued fossil fuel companies for $50 billion, citing the 2021 heat wave. The law firms suing on behalf of Multnomah County in Oregon are: 

   Thomas, Coon, Newton & Frost in Portland, Oregon

   https://www.tcnf.legal

   https://www.tcnf.legal/contact/

   Tel: 503-228-5222Fax: 503-273-9175
   820 SW 2nd Ave, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97204

   Simon Greenstone Panatier in Dallas

   https://sgptrial.com

   Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Houston

   Dallas, Texas Tel: 214.276.7680 Fax: 214.276.7699901 Main Street Suite 5900 Dallas, Texas

   Long Beach, California Tel: 562.590.3400 Fax: 562.590.34123760 Kilroy Airport Way Suite 680 Long Beach, California Los Angeles

   New York, New York Tel: 212.634.1690 Fax: 214.276.7699420 Lexington Avenue Suite 2848 New York, New York New York City

   Houston, Texas Tel: 214.276.7680 Fax: 214.276.7699440  Louisiana Street Suite 802 Houston, Texas

    

   Worthington & Caron in San Pedro, California

   https://www.worthingtoncaron.com

   273 W. 7th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731

   (800) 831-9399

   (Contact the Oregon Multnomah County litigation department for more information on these state or government-level lawsuits against the cartel.)
3. The city of Oakland, California, joined the California lawsuit against five of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. (Expect many more California cities to pile on and join the California lawsuit. Smart city managers know this is easy money with the California attorney general leading the prosecution. They know they're going to get money, either in the jury verdict or the pre-trial settlement. (Contact the Oakland, California, litigation department for more information on these state or government-level lawsuits against the cartel.) Also see City of Oakland v. BP p.l.c. by clicking here.
4. Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Colorado, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia are also suing the fossil fuel companies. (Here is the link to the Massachusetts climate change damages lawsuit against the cartel and its member, Exxon. Contact the Attorney General for these other states, protectorates, or districts for more information on these state or government-level lawsuits against the cartel.)
5. Hoboken, New Jersey, last month added racketeering charges against major oil companies to its 2020 climate lawsuit, becoming the first case to employ the approach in a state court and following a federal lawsuit filed by Puerto Rico last November. (Contact the Hoboken, New Jersey litigation department for more information on these state or government-level lawsuits against the cartel.) See this article, Lawsuit Filed by AG, NJDEP, and Division of Consumer Affairs Accuses Five Oil and Gas Companies of Misleading the Public About Their Products and Climate Change.
6. More U.S. cities and states, including Baltimore, Maryland, and Honolulu, Hawaii, have recently filed similar complaints against oil companies. (Contact the Baltimore, Maryland, and Honolulu, Hawaii, litigation department for more information on these state or government-level lawsuits against the cartel.)
7. Charleston sues fossil fuel companies over climate change. Charleston is the first city in the American South to file a lawsuit against fossil fuel companies for their contributions to climate change. Click here for the article.
8. Fossil Fuel case to be heard in Vermont court, click here. This new litigation comes after the Vermont Attorney General’s office sued Exxon and other companies for greenwashing fossil fuel products.
9. For a full list of litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel in over 28 nations, click here. 

If you are a US state Attorney General, a US municipal government, or an equivalent legal authority in another nation pursuing litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel, our organization will provide special assistance to help get your litigation team up to speed. Contact us at ([email protected])

If you know of other governments or government agencies in lawsuits against the cartel, please send us all the information you can about those legal actions (i.e., links, lawyer names, charges, etc.) We are working on creating the largest database of evidence, charges, and lawsuits against the global fossil fuel cartel so new lawyers, law firms, and government agencies do not have to reinvent the wheel and can get up to speed more quickly.

If you are aware of former fossil fuel cartel executives willing to testify against the cartel, please first forward that information to your local government's legal agency so they can obtain immunity and/or protection as necessary. Then, send us a copy for a private list we are building for worldwide government agencies only. Once these whistleblowers have the correct immunities and protections, we may also begin sharing those contacts with the largest class-action lawsuits against the cartel.

Here are the current hero and heroine law firms, lawyers, and solicitors that can help you with your personal lawsuit

Please note: The world's largest law firms have most likely done legal work for the global fossil fuel cartel, and because of that, they are barred from bringing lawsuits against the cartel. This means you must find a mid-sized law firm for your case.

If you do not find a law firm below that will take your case while we are building this global law firm list, contact a local or state law firm that does class-action work or is at least mid-sized. Have someone at their firm read this page and our other two Climate Justice Now pages at this location and this second location, and they should quickly see the tremendous financial and public relations opportunity for their firm to do the right thing. It is also possible that these law firms will gain national-level attention and prominence as they secure substantial settlements or judgments for their clients and themselves.

Similar to what happened with the massive and sudden cigarette and asbestos judgments and settlements, more mid-sized law firms are rapidly recognizing the positive reputation, national media exposure, and huge income growth potential of bringing justice and legal actions against the deep-pocketed global fossil fuel cartel companies and their executives.

Please do not forget that the following lawyer heroes and heroines are also actively advocating for climate justice and indirectly contributing to climate change mitigation. Lawyers and solicitors may now be our last best hope for enforcing a reduction in global fossil fuel usage sufficient to ensure some part of humanity survives the climate change emergency. This is particularly important because for 60 years, our governments have not done so.

Please inform us of any new law firms handling anti-cartel climate change loss and damage lawsuits at ([email protected]).

Although we know of numerous other law firms that are prepared to file lawsuits against the cartel, we will not list them on this page until they have been physically filed with the courts. Successful litigation against the cartel requires extensive evaluation of evidence, witnesses, and law before a lawsuit is filed.

Here are the law firms currently involved in litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel:

Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann, and Bernstein

(Also co-counsels in the California attorney general's case against fossil fuel cartel members)

Anderson Kill

Website: https://www.andersonkill.com/Practice-Areas/Climate-Change-and-Disaster-Recovery

Offices

New York - 212-278-1000
Boston - (617) 221-5445
Denver - 303-353-0066
Los Angeles - 213-943-1444
Newark - 973-642-5858
Philadelphia - 267-216-2700
Stamford - 203-388-7950
Washington, DC - 202-416-6500

The Climate Protection and Restorative Initiative

https://cprclimate.org

2495 Hilyard St., Suite A
Eugene, Oregon 97405, USA

[email protected]

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Here are organizations and their hero and heroine staff actively tracking new lawsuits against the fossil fuel cartel in the US and Worldwide 

Non-law firm heroes and heroines supportive of climate change legal accountability against the cartel of toxic polluters.

Please do not forget that the following organization(s) and their staff members are also aggressively pushing forward climate change justice and indirectly contributing to the end of climate change.

Corey Riday-White,

managing attorney

Job One for Humanity is also actively involved in promoting new global fossil fuel cartel litigation worldwide to make them pay for the loss and damage their products produce and their crimes 

1. We are actively contacting, either directly or through volunteers, embassies, and the justice departments of local, state, and national governments, informing them of why they, too, should be suing the cartel and how to do so successfully.

We have especially reached out to underdeveloped nations that have been disproportionately harmed by the effects of climate change, which they did not cause. We are working with them to realize it is time to stop going to the United Nations' International COP conferences begging for scraps of financial assistance when they could begin effective lawsuits against cartel members and extract and enforce the financial restitution and climate justice needed to make their nations whole again.

2. In the background, we are accumulating filed evidence exhibits and judgments against the cartel to be used in other cases worldwide.

3. We are recruiting new volunteers worldwide to promote the Climate Justice Now program and its initiatives. Click here to become a volunteer in the Climate Justice Now program and help forward the justice actions described on this page and throughout the Climate Justice Now pages.

4. We are deeply grateful for the interest, support, and cooperation from individuals and attorneys currently involved in the cartel's climate change loss and damage lawsuits, from government and private lawsuits.

Our climate change damage evidence master list 

Click here for the master list of climate change loss and damage evidence and other helpful information.

Other organizations are protecting us from and fighting for new criminal laws against climate change and the global ecocide it causes

   

            

         

             

Final actions to protect yourself and learn more

1. Learn more about how bad climate change and global warming will get and on what timeframes.

This will help you determine if rebuilding at your current location is wise. To make this determination, review the following links:

At some point, it is essential to read this page. It takes you through the list of the many climate change crimes against humanity that the global fossil fuel cartel has committed over the last 40 years. 

Today's Key Climate Change Facts

The Primary and Secondary Consequences of Climate Change

The Four Major Climate Change Tipping Points

2. Learn how to prevent your family or business from ever suffering again the pain and loss of the subsequent climate change aggravated consequences coming to your area.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result." --Albert Einstein

Unfortunately, global warming is accelerating for many reasons, as described above. If you are in a global warming unsafe zone, you will most certainly continue to experience the same or greater losses and suffering if you remain in that hazardous zone and do not adapt!

Take the time to carefully decide on your next step of repair, rebuilding, or moving. As climate change accelerates, there will be many areas where rebuilding would be a recipe for repeated climate damage and destruction at even greater levels!

3: You may also be able to get your local, state, or national government to purchase your property at fair market value under the growing principles and allocations of climate change Managed Retreat. 

Check with the appropriate agencies to see if you and your climate-related losses qualify for the Managed Retreat payments. Managed retreat is government double-speak and spin for climate change-driven migration.

Government agencies have been deceived by decades of global fossil fuel cartel disinformation campaigns and are terrified even to use the term climate change migration. This new climate change-sanitized term is because they don't even want to admit climate change is a real problem. After all, if they did, they would have to take practical and effective steps to fix it.

4: If you decide to remain in your current location, you will need to begin the future climate consequence protection and adaptation actions described on this page and the subsequent page.

5. Share Your Success and Knowledge to Help Others

If you follow the above recovery advice and you are persistent, you will be made financially whole and may even get additional restitution for your pain and suffering or even punitive damages. Additionally, you will be executing justice by legally and ethically punishing those who created the harm you have suffered, and you will be protecting others from suffering as you are suffering now. Ultimately, you will be protecting the environment and the future for yourself, your children, and future generations.

Please share your results with us at [email protected] . This is a critical situation where, when you win and recover, the future and the environment also win!

Never forget, suing the global fossil fuel cartel members for your climate loss and damage will help to save humanity from mass extinction by helping to prevent humanity's crossing the last chance atmospheric carbon 450 ppm (parts per million) tipping point. (This page thoroughly explains the last chance for humanity at the carbon 450 ppm tipping point.)

Filing justified lawsuits against the global fossil fuel cartel members is now the most critical and important action that climate change activists, concerned citizens, mid-sized law firms, and lawyers can and must take to protect us from the greed, products, and toxic, destructive actions of the global fossil fuel cartel.

Never forget that the legal actions of the Climate Justice Now program are required because our governments and politicians have utterly failed us. Our media and even our big environmental groups have failed us. They have all failed to enforce the survival-required, humanity-saving reductions in global fossil fuel emissions for decades.

Because of this overwhelming and ongoing failure to act by those we have trusted to protect us, individuals, law firms, and protective government agencies bringing tens of thousands of justified worldwide lawsuits against the members of the global fossil fuel cartel IS humanity's last best hope to stop the greed-intoxicated fossil fuel cartel before it destroys most of humanity and the Earth's biological systems.

Other References

Here are just a few encouraging articles about cities and counties filing lawsuits in their respective state courts against the fossil fuel industry to recover the loss and damage caused to them by escalating global warming:

LOS ANGELES CONTEMPLATES ITS OWN CLIMATE SUIT, TOO...

NEW YORK CITY SUES OIL COMPANIES OVER CLIMATE CHANGE, SAYS IT PLANS TO DIVEST…

CALIFORNIA JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF SUING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION...

THE GLOBAL CO2 RISE: THE FACTS, EXXON, AND THE FAVORITE DENIAL TRICKS...

(Click here to see the known primary and secondary climate change consequences.)

Here is a new video on the global fossil fuel cartel's Crimes Against Humanity.

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Below are links to all parts of the Climate Justice Now program

Be sure your attorney, solicitor, law firm, or appropriate government agency staff read ALL of the Climate Justice Now pages below to get up to speed as quickly as possible about the best strategies and connections for bringing or advancing litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel and its members.

The Climate Justice Now Program Overview Page:

Click here for this quick overview of the 3 parts of the Climate Justice Now program. It highlights the gold of the program and explains why it is critical at this moment in climate change history.

The Climate Justice Action Page 1: 

Click here for Part 1, which is an online public trial of the perpetrators of climate change and their shocking crimes against humanity over the last 4-6 decades.

It is a must-read for even the most hardened climate change activists and researchers, as it lays out the full spectrum of serious crimes committed by the perpetrators of climate change, many of which have never been previously reported.

The Climate Change Justice Corrective Actions Page 2:

Click here for the three most critical actions needed to stop the ongoing crimes of the global fossil fuel cartel from destroying humanity and achieve climate change justice.

The Climate Change Trial Evidence Page 2a:

Click here for the master list of evidence and documentation for the online global fossil fuel cartel jury trial and for ongoing litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel. We just moved this page because it is expanding quickly.

The Climate Change Law Firm Listing and Law Suit Tips Page 3:

Click here for a list of law firms that may be able to help the many worldwide victims of climate change. Simply because it directly and immediately starts removing all profit from cartel wrongdoing. Eventually and hopefully soon, successful court judgments and big damage awards against the global fossil fuel cartel, related companies, senior executives, and associated enablers may prove to be more effective in ending the climate change extinction emergency than previous public protests, the previous 27 international climate conferences, and current climate educational efforts.

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We are actively recruiting new volunteers worldwide to promote the Climate Justice Now program and its initiatives. Click here to become a volunteer in the Climate Justice Now program and help forward the justice actions described on this page and throughout the Climate Justice Now pages.

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Prologue

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You will soon discover the chilling reasons why today's "popular" media-approved climate researchers and the world's leading environmental groups will not publicly tell their viewing audiences, donors, and members about the implications and consequences of Garret's Climate Change Fossil Fuel Reduction Dilemma. This widespread failure to openly discuss the consequences of this critical dilemma directly affecting humanity survival continues to prevent innocent people worldwide from taking the necessary steps to prepare for, adapt to, and build resilience against climate change. 

Introduction

Our independent, 100% publicly funded climate change think tank has predicted that approximately half of humanity will perish from climate change-related consequences by mid-century. This prediction was made after extensive research and analysis using climate change-related materials and methods described in this section. The article and links below provide a detailed explanation of the climate science and mathematics behind why half of humanity is already at risk.  

This climate change and human extinction information is upsetting for most people. Therefore, at the end of this article, we have also provided links to a comprehensive climate preparation, adaptation, resilience, relocation, and recovery plan to help you manage all aspects of the following awful climate change news.

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Garret's Climate Change Fossil Fuel Reduction Dilemma

The following is Garret's Climate Change Dilemma. It contains the most critical decision that faces every politician and every government concerning the most critical actions that must be taken to survive the climate change extinction emergency.

Garret's climate change dilemma is laid out in two simple questions (a and b below). Ask yourself which decision you would make. How would you choose when the world's future is truly at stake? (The painful climate science behind Professor Garret's climate change dilemma will be explained fully in the article below.)

Would you:

a. Immediately enforce radically reducing current global fossil fuel usage by 75% to meet the correct 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets? 

Because we wasted 60+ years when we should have reduced global fossil fuel use long ago, this action would still cause half of humanity to die off by mid-century from starvation and other climate-related causes, and also cause a severe global economic collapse.

However, it would prevent near-total human extinction and massive economic and political collapse between 2050 and 2070.

Or would you: 

b. Not radically reduce fossil fuels to meet the correct 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets so that you could prevent a severe economic collapse now?

In this decision scenario, you know that half of humanity will still die off by mid-century because of past reduction delays and existing and locked-in future climate change consequences by themselves. However, you also know that only by meeting the required 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets immediately can you maintain the only remaining way to save as much as possible of the other half of humanity that will survive beyond 2050 and prevent near-total human extinction and worldwide economic and political collapse after 2050.

Take a moment to consider all of the consequences for each decision in this horrifying dilemma, and what you would do, and what you think our politicians will do.

What this dilemma also highlights is that our politicians and governments must act now to get close to the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets to save the post-2050 climate change-surviving half of humanity. This is because there is nothing we can do at this late point to prevent the loss of about half of humanity before 2050, (due to already existing and unavoidable climate change consequences.)

This means our politicians must make immediate decisions on climate change and fossil fuel reduction that will be intensely unpopular, in order to save the future half of humanity that is still salvageable. Alternatively, they can do nothing, protect their current salaries and privileges, and let most of humanity perish after 2050.

What do you think our courageous politicians will do?

Yes, this is a dilemma no one should have to face, but we do have to face it. Our politicians can do nothing anymore to save about half of humanity because of their past incompetence and the momentum of existing climate change consequences that can no longer be stopped. Radically cutting global fossil fuel usage to get close to the 2025 targets is the only thing that can save the other half of humanity.

But in doing that, half of humanity, already doomed from our politicians' past inaction and accelerating climate change consequences, will perish even sooner from the sudden reduction in global fossil fuel use. Even though half of humanity will die either more slowly or more quickly before approximately 2050, depending on whether our politicians' action or inaction before 2025, it is unlikely that our politicians will take the immediate and radical fossil fuel reduction actions needed to save the other half of humanity. It is too easy for them to do nothing, keep enjoying their salary and benefits, and believe that, because they are politicians, their governments will protect them and their families as a top priority, as the climate change chaos and death grow.

To add insult to injury, Garret's Climate Change Dilemma was completely avoidable. It is due to our politicians and governments doing nothing effective over the past 60 years to address climate change, when gradual global fossil fuel reductions could have been implemented and would have been far less painful. Furthermore, this governmental ineffectiveness is also because of history's largest and most expensive disinformation campaign. This greed-fueled campaign was targeted at our politicians and carefully orchestrated by the global fossil fuel cartel, the world's largest and richest industry.

Yes, this is a huge shock to take in, and it will be explained in Garret's science and math below. (If you are not sure why half of humanity will unavoidably perish by about 2050 because of existing and locked in future climate change consequences by and of themselves if we miss the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets by a lot, please click here to confirm this is, in fact, humanity's greatest climate change dilemma.)

Be aware that Garrett's Climate Change Dilemma will be a dominant reason for the extinction of about half of humanity by mid-century if we miraculously make the 2025 global fossil fuel reductions. But it will not be the only reason. As runaway global heating worsens, the numerous primary and secondary consequences will come into play, ultimately killing off even larger portions of humanity both before and after 2050.

As described below in Garrett's Climate Dilemma, the rapid and enforced global reduction of fossil fuels is required, but it will lead to a global economic collapse. Furthermore, the collapse of global civilization will result in a global population collapse and the mass extinction of approximately half of humanity by mid-century.

This collapse and extinction process will occur because:

1. Global mass food production is mainly based on fossil fuels at many levels (fertilizers, farm equipment fuel, and transporting food to markets.)

2. Because of our government's 60-year delay in acting on climate change, there is now a long chain of unavoidable climate and extinction-related consequences, crossed tipping points, and feedbacks described here, which will ensure the human population is drastically reduced and that we experience widespread global collapse.

And if everything goes wrong and we never truly address runaway global heating, we will experience near-total collapse and near-total extinction. (Near-total extinction means that 50 to 90+ percent or more of humanity could die, but all of humanity will not go extinct for the reasons discussed on this page.) 

The Science Behind Garrett's Climate Change Dilemma and the Runaway Global Heating Emergency

Tim Garrett, professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah, has researched the physics of atmospheric thermodynamic change (changing air temperatures) over the history of human civilization. His unsettling research indicates that the only workable way left to avoid irreversible runaway global warming and its unthinkable extinction-level consequences will involve allowing our fossil fuel-driven global economy to collapse. 

To be clear, irreversible global warming and climate change mean that we will not be able to remove the dangerous levels of excess greenhouse gases (such as carbon) from our atmosphere and return it to a normal and human-safe pre-industrial level for hundreds to thousands of years. (As of July 2024, we are currently at the insane atmospheric carbon level of 425 ppm. We will soon enter the generally considered irreversible and second phase of runaway global heating, sometime between 2025 and 2031. This is when we enter into the carbon 425-450 ppm range.)

Garrett's research shows that the laws of physics predict that we will have to enter an immediate economic recession or depression to save the future from irreversible, runaway global warming and ourselves from extinction. Most of us are not economists, physicists, or climatologists, so this lesson may seem a little difficult to understand.

But, the following summary of Garrett’s research should help:

1. The core finding of his research is that maintaining only our current levels of economic production and wealth requires continual energy sustenance and supply. Like a living organism, civilization requires energy not only to grow but also to continue to sustain and maintain its current size or wealth.

2. In today’s terms, this also means that any additional economic production (wealth) equals more carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels. Conversely, fewer carbon emissions from less fossil fuel burning equals less economic production (wealth).

3. The fixed and direct link between energy sustenance and the additional production of more wealth means that the existence of a financially measurable and viable economy cannot be decoupled from a continuing rise in its energy consumption.

4. This means that contrary to current popular global heating prediction theories, neither population size nor the population’s standard of living has to be included in the computer modeling for the predictions on what will happen in the future with a growing or shrinking economy and the amount of carbon dioxide that will go into the atmosphere affecting global warming. (Garrett's realization was that global warming is directly linked to the increased or decreased carbon levels of increased or decreased Gross Domestic Product [GDP].)

5. Conversely, global atmospheric carbon dioxide emission rates cannot be unlinked from economic production (wealth) through new or predicted gains in energy efficiency. Greater energy efficiency does not invalidate Garrett’s research, which demonstrates that greater production (wealth) always equals greater atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions. Also, the reverse conservation effects of Jevons’ Paradox should be considered here.

6. According to Garrett’s research, even a 50% reduction in total fossil fuel use over the next 50 years will not be enough to keep us below carbon 425-450 ppmv. [See footnote 96.] (425-450 ppmv is of itself a very unsafe level.) Even with this 50% reduction, we will still hit 600 ppmv by the year 2100 (or sooner) and pass three of the four final extinction-triggering climate tipping points. See this page to understand what 450-500 ppmv or 600 ppmv will mean to your future. (Job One has this plan to keep us from crossing this mass extinction, dangerous carbon 425-450 ppm level. (Click here for more information on the nightmare we create for ourselves when we cross the 425-450 ppm range, which is the first extinction-triggering tipping point.) 

7. Keeping carbon emissions at or below the already unsafe level of carbon 450 ppmv will not be achieved by any conservation, increased energy efficiency, or other gradual fossil fuel reduction tactics currently being implemented. To maintain our current standard of living with our growing population without further exacerbating global warming, a new, non-carbon-polluting nuclear power plant would have to be built every day. Because this is not currently happening and, in fact, is impossible (even if it were a desirable solution), the only remaining solution to radically reducing fossil fuel use is economic collapse.

8. For atmospheric CO2 concentrations to remain below 450 ppmv, Garrett’s research suggests there will have to be some combination of an unrealistically rapid rate of energy decarbonization (reduction of fossil fuel use) and its consequent and near-immediate reductions in global wealth. Effectively, it appears that civilization may be in a double-bind dilemma. If civilization does not collapse quickly this century, then CO2 levels will likely exceed 1000 ppmv. At the same time, if CO2 levels exceed 1,000 ppmv, [See footnote 97.] then civilization will gradually tend toward total collapse. (For more about Garrett’s research on the physics of long-run global economic growth issues, click here.   Click here to see the many detailed primary and secondary climate and other consequences that will bring about the collapse of civilization much sooner than 2100, long before carbon 1,000 ppmv is reached.   [See footnote 98.]) 

9. Garrett also does not envision that our governments and politicians will ever be able to reduce carbon emissions fast enough. In his paper “No Way Out,” [See footnote 99.], he says that “reducing carbon emissions may be a bit like asking an adult to once again become a child. Over millennia, we have collectively built an enormous global infrastructure designed to consume massive amounts of energy. Without destroying this infrastructure, energy will continue to be consumed. Without energy, the circulation and transactions that define the global economy come to a halt. And because so much of this infrastructure is tied to fossil fuel consumption, our economy is wedded to carbon emissions.”

10. Although it may seem counterintuitive, Garrett also states that energy consumption rates can rise about twice as fast with rapid decarbonization (reductions in fossil fuel use) as with no decarbonization. The reason is that decarbonization aids society's health by limiting global warming. Better health means greater energy consumption, which then leads to a partial offset of the environmental gains achieved through decarbonization in the first place. (Going green is a form of global decarbonization.)

11. In addition to the many Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) errors described on this page, Garrett also turned his new prediction model on the IPCC’s global warming predictions and discovered two major errors. He demonstrated that the IPCC’s current global warming prediction scenarios substantially underestimate the rise in carbon dioxide levels for a given level of future economic prosperity and wealth. The two reasons for the IPCC errors are that global carbon dioxide emission rates cannot be unlinked from economic production and wealth creation through any efficiency gains the IPCC uses, and our continuous future global warming can be expected to act as a significant inflationary drag on the real growth of wealth. Because neither of these two essential economic factors was properly accounted for within previous IPCC prediction scenarios, the IPCC has, once again, substantially underestimated the relationship of projected future increased prosperity to increased carbon dioxide levels. By forwarding this rosy and false belief that economic prosperity can be maintained while dramatically reducing fossil fuel use, it seems the IPCC was trying to “have its cake and eat it too.” These serious miscalculations by the IPCC mean their predictions are even more unreliable than has been disclosed on this website (and in Chapter 7 of the new Climageddon book). This also means that most of the world is unaware of the severity of the current global warming emergency, or that solving it will require a massive global economic downturn.

Garrett does give us some hope in his research for a possible solution when he mentions that if civilization’s ability to adapt to rising global warming and its consequences is extremely low, “...then only a combination of rapid civilization collapse and high decarbonization comes close to achieving a 450 ppmv goal.” [See footnote 100.] (Here, rapid civilization collapse refers directly to the rapid reduction of all fossil fuel use.)

Garrett’s unsettling research can also suggest that the only remaining possible way that we may be able to maintain or go below the carbon 450 ppmv target [See footnote 101.] to avoid irreversible runaway global warming and keep our economy going fairly well is:

Sudden and drastic global fossil fuel use reductions, and simultaneously, all

• nations immediately and fully switch to non-carbon-dioxide-emitting green power generation sources. (Neither of which is currently happening, and according to the new MIT research, we will not be able to scale up green energy generation anywhere close to the timeframe needed.)

It appears Garrett may not believe our governments and politicians currently have either the technical ability and/or the political will to enact the painful solution to replace our fossil fuel energy consumption in time to avoid the worst consequences of runaway global warming. He states that “as the current climate system is tied directly to its unchangeable past, any substantial near-term departure from recently observed acceleration in carbon dioxide emission rates is highly unlikely.”

“Anyone wishing to see what is to come should examine what has been.” —Machiavelli

This creates a real double-blind dilemma. If our governments and politicians cannot scale up a full global green energy generation replacement in time, while also making all the required global fossil fuel reductions, the steep decline of the global economy will financially devastate us. If we continue as we are now, and civilization does not collapse quickly (within this century), carbon dioxide levels will likely exceed carbon 600-1,000 ppmv and condemn us to the last near-total extinction phases of runaway global warming.

Assuming Tim Garrett’s research is correct about how the gross world product (GWP) and civilization’s accumulated wealth is intrinsically and directly linked to the total carbon levels present in the atmosphere, without building a nuclear reactor every day, or fully scaling up global green energy generation to replace all global fossil fuel reductions, (both of which are impossible) our only remaining solution is to let the economy crash in stages now or completely collapse later, bringing most of the civilization down with it.

Ethically, this is a straightforward choice, but it presents logistical and political challenges. How do our governments and politicians educate the people of the world that to save the future and future generations, they must now expect less, have less, and be less economically comfortable? How do our politicians get us to understand that we now have to sacrifice the lives of half of humanity so the other half may survive by making radical fossil fuel cuts? How do our politicians get us to understand that if we don't make the painful cuts now, half of humanity will still perish by 2025, AND most of the other half of humanity will also perish? 

In a world that has already conditioned us to demand and expect more, the message that we must all make painful sacrifices for the survival of future generations and civilization will be a very hard sell. This educational task may be nearly impossible because it requires a degree of personal maturity to delay immediate self-gratification for a future collective reward. It is completely unrealistic to think most people will voluntarily make the required and painful sacrifices without enforcement by the world's governments.  

Very few individuals, non-profit ecological organizations, corporations, or nations are willing to hear this tough message about runaway global heating, let alone act upon the drastic reductions in global fossil fuel emissions that we now need to implement by 2025. But this is exactly what we all need to hear, begin discussing, and start preparing for and doing to survive. 

Although many new jobs and businesses will be created by transitioning to green energy generation, these new sources of revenue will not protect the economy from the loss of old fossil fuel industry-related jobs and businesses. As we navigate the upcoming economic hardships and transition from reliance on fossil fuel energy generation to greener or safer energy sources, we will need to learn to accept these challenging financial and other realities.

There is both bad news and good news in Garrett’s research. The bad news is that if our governments and politicians don't radically reduce fossil fuel use at an exponentially rapid rate (as described in the correct 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets), which currently sustains a viable rising economy, our atmospheric carbon ppm concentrations will continue to rise. We will continue to move toward the later, near-total extinction phases of runaway global warming.

This mass die-off is primarily due to the fact that modern agriculture relies heavily on fossil fuel-based fertilizers and equipment. When these items are no longer available, we will be unable to produce nearly enough food for our ballooning global population. 

Here again is the political dilemma. If our governments and politicians do not reduce global fossil fuel use to meet the 2025 targets, we will begin to experience many of the primary and secondary consequences described on this page, and approximately 50% of the global population will die by mid-century. If our governments and politicians do cut global fossil fuel use to get close to the 2025 targets, about 50% of the global population will still die by mid-century due to the collapse of fossil fuel-driven modern agriculture.

The good news is that we can eventually secure a prosperous economy and a safe future if we persuade our politicians to realize there will be no possible long-term economic prosperity or a future for about 50-90+% of humanity without immediate and radical fossil fuel reductions and the other government actions described on this page.

In summary, Garrett's research points toward the unbearable idea that the short-term collapse of our economy and the death of about 50% of the world's population are due to the loss of fossil fuels and by about mid-century may become a required action if we are going to save ourselves from an unthinkable global warming catastrophe. If you still don't believe this is valid and you are scientifically minded, take a look at Garrett’s paper called “No Way Out.” [See footnote 102.] (Be sure to go to the end of his study after the references and also look at his many prediction graphs.)

We are caught in a terrible transitional energy, economy, and survival dilemma. Because there is no quick, global solution for transitioning to green or other energy sources, the only way out is for our governments and politicians to drastically reduce fossil fuel use now; otherwise, we will suffer severe financial hardship and a massive loss of life. If our governments and politicians don't drastically cut fossil fuel use now, we will suffer far greater than just financial hardship in the near future. If our governments and politicians do not get close to the 2025 fossil fuel reduction targets, we will experience not just the loss of about half of humanity by mid-century, we will experience near-total human extinction (as much as 50 - 90+% of humanity.)

If the economy is going to undergo a severe recession or depression, regardless of the circumstances, it is wiser to implement the necessary painful changes as quickly as possible and preserve the future for our children and future generations.

Other Key Facts and Observations

1. Our governments and politicians are currently not making the required radical cuts in fossil fuel use to reduce the carbon entering our atmosphere, thereby preventing massive global temperature increases, horrendous climate calamities, and far sooner than imagined extinction. A 2017 research paper in Science, lead-authored by Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, concluded that global carbon emissions would have to be cut in half by 2020, then cut in half again by 2030 and then cut in half again each decade out to 2050 to keep us safe. This means that, in order for us to keep global temperatures anywhere near the levels where most of humanity can survive, fossil fuel emissions need to be slashed by about 75 percent by 2030 and by nearly 95 percent by 2050 to stay within a safe climate zone. (Please see the correct 2025 global fossil fuel reductions here. The 2017 study did not account for all needed fossil fuel reductions.)
2. To grasp how difficult these cuts will be, imagine that in the next three years, you personally will have to cut all of your home, auto, and business uses of fossil fuels by 50%, then cut another 50% from that point within the next 10 years and then cut another 50% in each of the following decades. Citizens of the world who did not fully understand both the urgency and importance of why they needed to make these radical, immediate, and painful sacrifices would literally throw out any politician or even overthrow governments who tried to enforce these kinds of radical energy and fossil fuel usage cuts to their current comfortable or subsistence lifestyles and livelihoods. 
3. It is highly improbable that our governments and politicians will ever make the critically needed cuts to our use of fossil fuels. There are several reasons for this. One is that each year we delay making these necessary radical cuts in fossil fuel usage means that any future cuts will need to be even more extreme, which makes them even less likely to be implemented because of the even greater immediate hardship they will impose globally, secondly, because of Professor Garrett's Global Warming Dilemma, which you have read in the article above.
4. In addition to Garrett's dilemma, humanity is also facing numerous severe and unavoidable climate consequences that will likely reduce the human population by mid-century. Click here to read about the other climate-related consequences that make the extinction of about half of humanity by mid-century unavoidable. 

5. The above page helps explain why about half of humanity will perish by about 2050. Please remember that the climate change consequences described below are not only destructive by themselves.

   Most climate change consequences described below will also interact with and amplify other interconnected areas of climate change consequences. Then, these interacting secondary climate change areas will also experience amplification of their related climate change consequences. This is the alarming, escalating feedback cycle of climate change consequences interacting and amplifying one another. This interaction and amplification feedback cycle is one of the most unseen, unrecognized, and dangerous parts of our climate change nightmare and emergency.

6. Well before we reach humanity's predicted climate change-driven mass extinction by about 2050, the likelihood that humanity will destroy itself near-totally in much larger multi-regional or global conflicts before 2050 is exceptionally high. Here's why. After we have crossed our last chance atmospheric carbon 450 ppm threshold and tipping point, humanity's mass extinction by about 2050 will be driven mainly by starvation, mass migrations, and localized conflicts. However, there is also an exceptionally high probability of much larger conflicts arising due to the numerous secondary consequences of climate change that are accelerating. 

These secondary consequences include intensifying smaller-scale localized resource conflicts, which will also create much larger-scale national, international, and global conflicts.

The many extinction-accelerating secondary consequences of climate change are described fully about 1/2 way down this page. We strongly recommend reading about the secondary consequences of climate change, as it will help you to understand the suffering and death caused by these consequences on a visceral and intimate level. 

(Click here also to learn why human extinction by about 2050-2070 might be only near-total extinction, not the far worse total extinction, but only if we do not keep our atmospheric carbon levels below the carbon 450 parts per million. level.)

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Summary

1. Garrett's Climate Dilemma will be a dominant reason for the extinction of about half of humanity by mid-century. But, by no means will it be the only reason. As runaway global heating worsens, many other primary and secondary consequences will come into play, killing off large portions of humanity.

2. Our ineffective governments squandered 60-plus years when they could have gradually fixed climate change. The price of that grossly negligent governmental and political inaction is now the unavoidable deaths of about half of humanity by about 2050 from climate change-related consequences. Because our politicians do not want to be blamed for their gross negligence and incompetence in protecting us, they will do everything they can to continue to claim complete ignorance of the Garret's Climate Change Dilemma.

2. Sooner or later, our politicians will decide to radically cut global fossil fuel use by enforcing rationing simply because the outcome of not doing so would be unthinkable, and nothing else has worked for 60 years. This means that you, your family, and your business must get busy with your Plan B preparations and adaptations and decide for yourselves which half of humanity you will fall into.

3. (Click here for more information on the nightmare our governments and politicians will create for everyone when we cross the 425-450 ppm range, which is the first extinction-triggering tipping point.) 

4. Now you know why the global fossil fuel cartel desperately wants you never to discover Garret's climate change dilemma. Once you understand how they have distorted and hidden critical climate change information from our governments and humanity for over 60 years, you will clearly see that they are legally, financially, and criminally responsible for all the destruction, financial loss, and deaths their intentional climate change misinformation actions and products have caused.

5. If we miss the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets by a lot, about half of humanity will unavoidably perish by about 2050 because of existing and locked-in future climate change consequences by and of themselves. This unfortunate fact is the other half of Garrett's Climate Change Dilemma and creates humanity's greatest climate change dilemma.

6. Click here to see the Climageddon Feedback Scenario, which describes in painful detail the meltdown of climate change tipping points, feedback loops, and nonlinear reactions that are already occurring and will only worsen, leading to mass human extinction.

After you finish this article, please be sure to read its companion article called the Climageddon Feedback Scenario. It will help you understand and "see" the climate change emergency at the level of a climate change researcher and analyst.

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Key Additional Documentation and Information to Help You Understand the Horrible and Unconscionable Consequences of a Still Unresolved Garret's Climate Change Dilemma

We invite you to examine the links below and decide if our climate change prediction is rational, climate science-based, and accurate. Here are the links to review in the order given:

a. The four climate change extinction-accelerating tipping points.

b. The many processes and steps for how the primary and secondary climate change-related consequences will accelerate and both cumulatively and synergistically interact with each other and feed into each other to eventually cause the deaths of about 1/2 of humanity by mid-century.

c. Within the next several decades or possibly much sooner, the sudden collapse of the Thwaites Doomsday glacier. This one climate tipping point will greatly accelerate the mass die-off for the many reasons discussed in the article.

d. The painful political challenge of Garret's Climate Change Dilemma. (This dilemma is discussed further down this page.)

It is also very helpful to learn more about the 11 major climate change tipping points to gain a deeper understanding of the numerous factors that are pushing humanity over the climate change cliff toward mass human extinction by mid-century.

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Footnotes

Please note this article and footnotes below are from the book Climageddon, which discusses the Garrett Global warming dilemma at length.

⁹⁶ Note: ppmv differs from carbon parts per million (ppm and CE carbon equivalent, CO2e. The distinction is that ppmv is used to describe all trace gases found in the atmosphere, such as sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and other pollutants, by volume.

⁹⁷ Tim Garrett, interview by Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock, October 19, 2011, transcript. http://www.ecoshock.org/downloads/climate2010/ES_Garrett_101119_LoFi.mp3

⁹⁸ Tim Garrett. "The physics of long-run global economic growth." Utah.edu. 2014. http://www.inscc.utah.edu/~tgarrett/Economics/Economics.html

⁹⁹ Tim Garrett. "No way out? The double-bind in seeking global prosperity alongside mitigated climate change." arXiv. January 9, 2012. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1010.0428v3.pdf

¹⁰⁰ Tim Garrett. "No way out? The double-bind in seeking global prosperity alongside mitigated climate change." arXiv. January 9, 2012. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1010.0428v3.pdf

¹⁰¹ Note: ppmv is different from carbon parts per million ppm and CE carbon equivalent, CO2e. The distinction is that ppmv is used to describe all trace gases found in the atmosphere, such as sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and other pollutants by volume.

¹⁰² Tim Garrett. "No way out? The double-bind in seeking global prosperity alongside mitigated climate change." arXiv. January 9, 2012. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1010.0428v3.pdf

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