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John,
The Swiss National Bank is pumping over $9 BILLION into greedy
corporations destroying the planet with fracking - recklessly drilling
into rock deep beneath the earth’s surface to suck out oil and gas.
These investments aren’t just dirty – they’re deadly. Fracking by fossil
fuel giants like ExxonMobil poisons water supplies with cancer-causing
chemicals, destroys Indigenous lands, and forces communities to inhale
fracking’s toxic fumes.
But we have a people-powered plan to cut the cash flow to these climate
vandals! Switzerland’s national bank is, by definition, majority-owned by
the Swiss public. If we can show clearly that the public wants the
fracking to stop, elected officials will feel the pressure to get the bank
to drop its dirty investments!
With all of us chipping in, we can work fast to poll Swiss residents and
plaster the results all over the media so that the SNB’s Chairman has
nowhere to hide. Chip in to turn up the heat on the Swiss National Bank!
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Fracking has triggered uncontrollable earthquakes, destroying the
foundations of *entire cities*. And despite continuous warnings,
cancer-causing chemicals used in fracking have been allowed to seep into
and contaminate water supplies – multiple times.
It is so dangerous that countries including Germany, France, and Spain
have flat-out banned the practice. AND the majority of states in
Switzerland have called for moratoriums on fracking!
The vast majority of the companies the Swiss National Bank invests in even
have ludicrous plans to expand their operations, even as the International
Energy Agency explicitly warns that no new oil and gas exploitation can
happen if we’re to limit global warming to 1.5C. They’re pushing us all to
the brink of irreversible climate catastrophe.
According to the SNB’s own policy, it won’t make investments in activities
that “grossly violate widely accepted social values.” It’s up to us to
hold them to it! If we can commission a poll and plaster the results all
over the media, we can show that fracking DOES grossly violate Swiss
social values and force them to change. Chip in today to remind the SNB’s
Chairman that it can no longer justify deadly investments in fracking!
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The finance sector is purposefully opaque so that banks can get away with
sneakily investing in climate vandals like ExxonMobil and Chevron. But our
friends at Klima Alliance have blown the SNB’s cover with a new report
exposing its ties to deadly fracking and we’re not letting it off the
hook.
John, we have a chance to save our planet from irreversible
destruction and secure a safe future for generations to come. But we have
to act NOW to show big banks and polluting corporations that their
climate-wrecking schemes will face disruption at every turn.
We’ve JUST presented 60,000 Ekō voices to the SNB and we’re not stopping
there!, Now is the time to demand bold action and show that we’ll do
whatever it takes to make our voices heard. Thousands of us stopped
Barclays from funding fracking in the UK, and we can do it again. Chip in
to be part of the movement to stop destructive fracking!
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Thanks for all that you do,
Allison and the Ekō team
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More information:
[ [link removed] ]Swiss National Bank rejects demands of climate change
activists. Reuters. 28 April 2023
[ [link removed] ]Swiss voters support climate bill as scientists warn about melting
glaciers. NPR. 19 June 2023
[ [link removed] ]Fracking’s Environmental Impacts: Water. Greenpeace
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