Folks,

Two weeks ago, a new fracture in the Antarctic ice shelf broke away and dumped a massive iceberg the size of Amsterdam into the ocean.

It’s the latest in a string of accelerating indicators of the alarming rise in ocean temperatures that almost no one seems to talk about.

But Adam McKay is talking about it.

You may remember McKay as the director of Don’t Look Up, the climate change denial film that broke big a couple of years ago.

McKay intended his film to be a wake-up call to the climate emergency. The movie was picked apart as a (completely valid) media critique and lauded for its dark humor – but on serious climate action, our society hit the snooze button once again.

We’re at a stage now that the experts and pundits largely agree and willingly admit that the “must not exceed” 1.5°C threshold set by the Paris Climate Accord in 2015 is still the point of no return.

But none of them are talking about the fact we surpassed 1.6°C already this year. And none of them are acting like we’re in a state of emergency.

Yesterday McKay took to X/Twitter to talk about what (or more specifically who) is really holding us back.

My opponent is hands down one of the biggest climate delayers in Congress. Larsen is funded by the very corporate PACs, lobbyists, and C-suite executives behind the acceleration of the climate emergency.

I’m the only candidate in this race with a three-decade record of climate activism. I’ve never taken a dime from corporate PAcs or lobbyists – and I never will.

In WA-02’s crowded top-two primary we have an outstanding, once-in-a-generation opportunity to remove a corporate-owned conservative Democrat and elect the first Green Party member to Congress. But I can’t do it without your support.

While Larsen is cashing checks from his real constituents in the war and oil industries, I’m running to represent the millions of Americans – and billions worldwide – facing immediate displacement if not annihilation from rising oceans and scorching temperatures.

Every day there are new headlines of major cities facing water shortages, massive wildfires, floods, and superstorms wiping out whole communities.

Climate scientists are living in a state of near constant despair because no one seems to be listening. They see all the data and they are powerless to change the political forces blocking action.

Rick Larsen may be comfortable sitting on his hands in Congress another 20 years while the ecosystems essential to human survival are collapsing, but I’m not. I’m going to Congress to raise hell and force this issue to the top of our national agenda.

In solidarity,

Jason