A Juneau protest this week, calling out banks for their backing of the fossil-fuel industry, had Kate Troll reconsidering her Alaska Airlines credit card. “We love the miles,” she said. “But I think we have to think about the greater tradeoff.”
Bob Schroeder with 350 Juneau saws a model Wells Fargo credit card in half outside of the bank’s downtown Juneau branch on the national “Stop Dirty Banks Day of Action” on March 21, 2023.
Schroeder revved the chainsaw over an intensifying drumbeat and then sliced the card in two, tossing the pieces onto the street. more than 100 protests “I had separated the two things,” Wilson said. “My money management is one part of my life. My concern about climate change is another part of it. And this is linking the two.”
Oil drilled over the planned 30-year operation of Willow, which received bipartisan support from state legislators, will emit more than metric tons of carbon dioxide when burned — the emissions equivalent of more than 70 coal-fired power plants.
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