It’s time to end the climate silence in 2020. We need a climate debate.
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From the streets to the ballot box, 350 Action is fighting for progressive climate champions who are willing to stand up for climate justice, good green jobs, just immigration policies, healthcare for all, and human rights.
Our next president needs to be a real climate leader. Watch to see how the climate movement is keeping score—then, take action.
A new class of progressive leaders from all over the country just stepped into seats in Congress — ensuring the House of Representatives could counterbalance the conservative monopoly on federal power. With them came the hopes and expectations of a nation of immigrants, women, people of color, disabled people and people with medical conditions, and everyone who’s ready to fight for a safe climate and just future for all of us.
Now, as our newly elected leaders take office, it’s time for action.
The science is clear: we need climate solutions now, and we don’t have a moment to lose. We’re calling on our new Congress to align their policies with science and their priorities with the moral imperative of this moment. We’re calling for real climate leadership.
Specifically, a real climate leader must:
Sign the letter today to demand the real climate leadership we need.
Sign the letter to demand real climate leadership from our new Congress:
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has sounded the alarm. We have a decade to prevent catastrophic warming of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), the target set by world leaders in the Paris Agreement.
That means we must phase out fossil fuels and scale up clean, renewable energy as fast as possible—and it will be crucial that the next Congress take action and show real climate leadership to make that transition happen.
The costs of inaction are already devastating. In recent years, unprecedented climate-change-fueled hurricanes, floods and fires have taken lives and livelihoods, leveled homes and cities costing taxpayers over $350 billion in economic damages from Puerto Rico to California and Houston to New York City, according to the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan federal watchdog.
We know who is responsible: President Trump’s billionaire friends in the fossil fuel industry. Fossil fuel corporations are far and away the largest contributors to anthropogenic climate change. Through concerted disinformation campaigns designed to confuse the public, buy off politicians and stymie climate action, Big Coal, Oil, and Gas executives have rigged our democracy to pad their pockets at the expense of the public and the planet we share.
But they cannot hold back the truth forever, and the benefits of bold climate action are becoming clearer by the day. A just and equitable energy transition has the potential to put millions of Americans to work in good green jobs, bring our neglected infrastructure into the 21st century and position the United States as a global leader in clean energy technologies. If we act now, we can rein in emissions, create opportunity for communities damaged by the fossil fuel industry and climate disasters and build a healthy and prosperous nation. The world as we know it depends on you.
We are writing to you as everyday people—workers, scientists, faith leaders, mothers, fathers, activists, businesspeople, children, men, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Indigenous peoples and much more. We have marched in the streets of New York, Washington D.C. and San Francisco. We have stopped the Keystone XL pipeline—twice—and will stop it again if TransCanada tries to build it. And we have advocated for common-sense climate solutions at all levels of government, from city halls to the White House. As elected officials, you are accountable to us.
In this fight—a fight that will define human civilization—we have done our part. And now it’s time for you to do yours: align your policies with science, and your priorities with the moral imperative of this moment. Be a real climate leader.
Specifically, a real climate leader must:
The above actions are the true litmus test of elected officials who take climate change seriously. But climate change is also a cross-cutting issue that impacts everything from public health to immigration, financial regulation to economic inequality, education to national security and transportation to housing. We expect you to stand with us, the people, and immediately address the causes and the symptoms of the climate crisis.
Real climate leaders must fight the Trump agenda every step of the way and take action to prepare all levels of government and society for this crisis. We are ready. We are resilient. We are real climate leaders. Are you?
“The fossil fuel industry has made billions by wrecking our climate, poisoning our neighborhoods, and trampling over sovereign Native Nations. I will use any platform I get to fight back, speak out, and vote against any and all new fossil fuel infrastructure.”
– Deb Haaland, Representative, New Mexico’s 1st District, elected in 2018
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Democrats took back the House. Now, it’s time for action. Real climate leadership means passing visionary policy solutions like a Green New Deal and standing up to big polluters.
We elected dozens of climate champions and sent a clear message of resistance to Trump and his fossil-fueled cronies. Now, let’s make it clear to our new members of Congress that we expect real leadership on climate that puts people before Big Oil’s bottom line.