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Friend—Is it surprising that we’re having another “record” summer?
Last month, we saw the warmest June on record in world history. Last week may have been the hottest week ever as well.
What are oil companies doing about this? Quietly walking back on their climate pledges. We cannot rely on companies whose profit motive involves burning away our future to impose limits on themselves.
It’s a failure of neoliberalism, and a failure of the free market that our government refuses to stop oil production. The “biggest climate legislation ever” last year was merely a drop in the bucket of what we actually need to achieve to stop this rapid, out-of-control warming.
I don’t take a single cent of corporate PAC money in this campaign, let alone anything from the oil and gas industries. That means I need your help to win this open seat and put an environmental justice champion in Congress.
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As a community-oriented, bottom-up campaign, we’re doing what we can on the local level to protect people from the current heat wave hitting Southern California. As with years past, I’m assisting local water drives and keeping our neighborhood fridge stocked with frozen water for people who need it.
The city of Los Angeles has a handful of cooling centers for people experiencing homelessness, but with almost 70,000 people living on the street in LA County it’s not nearly enough.
I’m fighting for full environmental justice in Congress, which includes but is not limited to a Green New Deal to comprehensively tackle climate change. Global warming is an equity and racial justice issue, with poorer communities of color bearing the brunt of the effects of carbon and chemical pollution.
This district in the heart of LA has never had a progressive representative who has unequivocally fought for environmental justice from the get-go.
That needs to change.
Just as our communities keep us safe, our communities keep us healthy. Change starts from the bottom-up, and I’m so grateful to have you in this fight.
Stay cool, and stay safe,
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