<[link removed]>Dear John,



As the annual Conference of Parties (COP) global climate conference concludes in Dubai, over 100,000 people, including valiant civil society organizations representing frontline nations, environmental justice and Indigenous communities, and myriad concerned global citizens are departing disappointed, despondent, and dejected at a time when our planet is warming at an accelerated rate and this year will mark the  highest level of carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels ever.[i]



Climate change is not some distant end point, it’s here right now and it’s taking lives, disproportionately Indigenous, Black, Brown, and poor, right now.



And rather than a mandate to phase out and eventually eliminate the use of fossil fuels, COP 28 concluded with perfunctory semantics that don’t compel high emitting nations like ours to take requisite actions necessary to avert the worst impacts of climate change. COP 28 did not end with a “historic agreement” it ended with waving a white flag and issuing a declaration of disaster for frontline, developing nations as well as Indigenous and other environmental justice communities the world over.



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<[link removed]>We have to be honest – the lack of global climate leadership the world just witnessed is directly tied to the lack of climate leadership right here in the U.S. Whether it’s the De Jure climate denialism of the GOP who are bankrolled with crude cash from the fossil fuel industry, or the De Facto climate denialism of the Democrats who are bankrolling the fossil fuel industry with billions of dollars from the milquetoast Inflation Reduction Act, we simply cannot count on the derelict duopoly to deliver us to climate justice.



As the only presidential candidate to attend the March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City, I keenly understand that the fossil fuel industry simply has too much power over both parties, just as they have too much influence at COP 28 with over 2,500 lobbyists in attendance. And while Big Oil may have big money, we have something more powerful – BIG IDEAS and People Power.



My plan for a global green reconstruction initiative will hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for a century of environmental racism once and for all by nationalizing it as part of a larger plan of dismantling it. And with your help, by COP 30 in Brazil, the U.S fossil fuel industry will no longer have any influence over a global climate conference – we, the people, will.



Can I count on you to help me deliver climate justice?



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Brother West



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