CALL TO ACTION #723: This Climate Demands Leaders (July 17, 2019)

This summer, heat records are being set everywhere from Maine to San Francisco. Climate change is scorching Europe in triple-digit heat but in the US, it’s only 90 . . . in Anchorage, Alaska.  

In DC, a month’s worth of rain fell in an hour. Much of the Midwest’s farmland is unplanted because the soil is slop.  

Three Members of Congress have offered a “sense of the Congress” resolution, to rebrand climate destruction a “climate emergency.”  

It’s an indictment of Congress that this simple measure is unlikely to survive – thanks to a decade of well-funded obfuscation and two years of Trump muzzling climate science in our government.  

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We are confronting many other problems, including a racist president working hard to transform the US into a Nazi Germany-like nation.  

But since the climate is everywhere, its fingerprints are everywhere. Take immigration, which is straining resources on America’s southern border.  

The record number of migrating families come from Central America, a region which has seen coffee crops and entire farms turn to dust in a relentless five-year drought.  

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This time requires great leaders. Our Senators and Representatives must lead. 

They must call for an impeachment inquiry and address the climate crisis head-on.