About
Climate Complaints takes an advocacy approach to push for feasible solutions that businesses, institutions and governments can implement to decrease greenhouse gases and mitigate the worst impacts of climate change.
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Advocacy is our Passion
It's hard to believe that there are sides in the fight to lessen the impacts of the climate emergency but we have picked ours: advocating to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement measures to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
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Our Goal
We want to push entities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions more and faster. Adapting to climate change is also an area that requires urgent attention as governments and businesses scale back their efforts to curb their emissions.
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Our Values
We are nonpartisan but certainly not apolitical. We don't care what political party you identify with...if any. That's because neither do the increasingly destructive tornadoes, wildfires, floods, hurricanes and heatwaves that threaten our communities' well being, public and natural infrastructure, and the ecosystems we and all living things enjoy. And yet while some political persuasions have done more than others to curb climate changing emissions, every political party needs to do more. So we will criticize politicians, their parties and political activists as needed and regardless of affiliation.
We may cast shame but we don't spread hate. Shame is a powerful tool in changing the behavior of others. At the heart of businesses, institutions and governments are people - most of whom are capable of feeling shame for acts their entities commit. And some of those people have the power to change the ways of their organizations. What isn't helpful is threatening, hateful speech. If you use that language to comment on our complaint videos, we will take the necessary action of taking it down and feeling sorry that you've got no useful outlets to make the world a better place.
We may cast shame but we don't spread hate. Shame is a powerful tool in changing the behavior of others. At the heart of businesses, institutions and governments are people - most of whom are capable of feeling shame for acts their entities commit. And some of those people have the power to change the ways of their organizations. What isn't helpful is threatening, hateful speech. If you use that language to comment on our complaint videos, we will take the necessary action of taking it down and feeling sorry that you've got no useful outlets to make the world a better place.
Our Team
Douglas Kolozsvari, Ph.D.
Founding Advocate/Professional Complainer
Douglas Kolozsvari has spent the better part of his career on transportation and environmental issues, including ways that individuals and groups can effectuate positive change to reduce greenhouse gases and enhance their livelihoods. His UCLA master’s thesis examined innovative parking policies in Old Pasadena and the creation of parking benefit districts. Following a stint working as a planner at the city, county and regional levels in the San Francisco Bay Area, he attended the University of Michigan and completed his doctoral dissertation assessing the attributes and actions that allow civil society organizations to impact transportation decisions. He is currently a principal at Solutions 2050, which provides consulting services in the areas of air quality/climate change, transportation/parking and green building to clients in the U.S., Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.
Looking for VolunteersAre you a passionate about the climate and have experience with website production, graphic development or video editing? Consider volunteering so we can field more complaints and make more videos, reach out to us using the Contact Us form below.
Support our efforts
We have BIG plans to confront the climate emergency and those entities that are exacerbating it. To achieve this, Climate Complaints could use your support in covering our start-up and fixed costs (web development/hosting, communication, video editing software, etc.) as well as develop the capacity to pursue more complaints. Check out how you can help on the Join the Community page.
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