Below (on website for email subscribers) are the concepts for 7-12 of 28 days brainstorming sign ideas for the People’s Climate March. I wish I could say that I was running out of ideas… This batch of signs is focused particularly on the fact that the burden of climate change is likely to fall most heavily on the communities and people least responsible for creating the problem– primarily residents of the “global south”– those without economic resources, living close to the vagaries of weather and climate disturbance. Though the idea of climate reparations has come up somewhat in global talks, there has was little in the way of commitment from the ‘global North’ to address the already dire drought driving famine and conflict in countries like Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria, or to think about what relocation might look like for a country like Bangladesh, where many millions live subsistence lifestyles in the path of sea level rise. The idea that our approach to climate resilience needs to focus first on the most vulnerable communities has relevance on a global scale, but also domestically and locally, as became abundantly clear in each of the recent natural disasters experienced in this country, from Katrina, to this past summer’s flooding in North Carolina.