Connie Young - 9-5-2021 - Contact your Electeds on Climate

 

CONTACT YOUR ELECTEDS ON CLIMATE

    September 5, 2021

Recent climate news has been depressing: catastrophic fires in California, Turkey, Greece and Siberia; devastating floods in Germany and China; the just-released report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which says that this is the new normal if we don't drastically reduce our emissions. Am I the only one who feels overwhelmed?

Joan Baez once said that action is the antidote to despair. One quick and simple action we can all take is to contact Reps. Costa, McCarthy, McClintock or Nunes to urge them to do something big for climate, and support a price on carbon.

Many scientists and economists agree that putting a price on carbon would be the most effective way to reduce carbon emissions at the scale and speed required by the climate crisis.

Learn more and contact your representative at cclusa.org/house.

Connie Young, Fresno

https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article253933828.html

Garrett Kinman - 9-5-2021- No Time to Delay on Climate Change

 

NO TIME TO DELAY ON CLIMATE CHANGE

September 5, 2021

Recently we saw the release of the IPCC's latest report on the climate crisis, and what we saw should alarm all Valley residents. We are seeing impacts worse and decades sooner than scientists originally predicted. Historic wildfires and heat domes are now a yearly occurrence. Only weeks ago, while in Boston, I saw and breathed the smoke and haze from over 2,000 miles away. As I write this letter, the Dixie Fire is raging on in our beloved Sierra Nevada. But it does not have to be this way.

In the IPCC report, it also predicted we have one glimmer of hope: strong, immediate climate action. Renewable energy at a scale never before seen. A price on carbon. Decarbonization of the whole economy. Yes, it is asking a lot, and no, it will not be easy. But we as a country have handled crises like this before. And we can do it again if we tell our representatives our future matters to us.

If we do, we will have the honor of leaving a clean and bountiful world for our children to inherit.

But first we must act. We can delay no further.

Garrett Kinman

Fresno

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