Why? Because we believe the special interests have enough politicians on their payrolls.
Take Cory Gardner.
Gardner sits on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and—no surprise here—the oil and gas industry poured $233,471 into his campaign in the last six months alone.1 That makes Cory Gardner the top recipient of oil and gas donations in the Senate this year.Unless we act now, we’ll condemn our children to a world where droughts, heat waves, floods, storms, and wildfires become even more frequent and more destructive. A world where hundreds of millions of people are uprooted from their homes and turned into climate refugees.
That’s where we’re headed, but it doesn’t have to be this way.
We can change course. We can end our reliance on fossil fuel and accelerate our transition to a clean-energy economy—but only if we elect leaders who aren’t beholden to the industries they’re supposed to be regulating.
I’m inspired by the young people in Colorado and across the world who are leading this fight. Now it’s up to all of us to heed their call.
Andrew Romanoff
[1] Center for Responsive Politics
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