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Friend,
The Republican Party has a
well-earned reputation for climate change denial. During the RNC,
Trump crudely bellowed a favorite refrain of Republican leadership:
“Drill, baby, drill!” to the cheers of his reactionary
followers.
The Democrats show more decorum
when it comes to the life and death issue of impending climate
disaster. You won’t see Joe Biden or Kamala Harris saying “drill,
baby, drill!” out loud, but in practice, that’s exactly what they’ve
been doing.
Did you know that the Biden-Harris
administration has approved almost 50% more oil and
gas drilling permits on federal land in its first 3 years than the Trump
administration did in its first 3 years? At the COP26 summit in
Glasgow in 2021, Biden declared climate change “an existential threat
to human existence” – and then turned around to offer up 80 million
acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas leasing just days
following the summit. The Biden-Harris administration knows how to
talk the talk by parroting climate-friendly buzzwords, but they
haven’t walked the walk. We’re tired of their gaslighting on the
climate crisis while they implement dangerous policies that sell our
children’s futures out to corporate greed.
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