Pledge now to vote for a new president in the 2020 General Election. SIGN ON

Dear Friend,

I’m writing to you right now while battling a headache from hazardous levels of smoke in the air in the Seattle-area of Washington state where it’s hard to see more than a block down the road due to so much smoke. And I’m writing also as I stay glued to the news about the fires in Oregon, where my daughter is about a dozen miles from an evacuation area; and while texting with family, friends, and colleagues who are in California battling major fires and living with hazardous smoke too. The pictures we’re texting each other from outside our own windows are unreal, filled with smoke and orange skies, and taken in the middle of the day.

The West Coast is on fire. [1]

The 2020 fires are bringing home just how urgently we need comprehensive #ClimateChange policy. To do that, we urgently need a new president.

*YOU can make that happen: Pledge now to vote for a new president in the 2020 General Election.

We need to get Trump out of office – and also to vote for candidates like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris who will take immediate action to stop climate change, who listen to scientists and medical experts, who tell the truth about COVID-19, and who believe that Black Lives Matter, healthcare and childcare must be for all, paid leave and sick days should cover everyone, and fair pay must happen.

Signing this pledge can be the start of building a bigger wave of change. Can you also get 3 friends to pledge, too? We need to build a massive wave of change and MOMentum toward November 3rd. If we all pitch in by reaching out to three friends, we can make history together.

Why does clicking to sign this pledge help? Importantly, showing that there’s a wave of people pledging to vote who are building toward November 3rd helps inspire other people to join that wave and vote too. We need every voter possible to vote on or before November 3rd to help get us out of this crisis. So you pledging to vote now helps turn out the vote later (THANK YOU!). 

*Click here to pledge to help get Trump out of office – and to vote instead for candidates like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris who believe action to stop climate change is necessary, who listen to scientists and medical experts, who tell the truth about COVID-19, and who believe that Black Lives Matter, healthcare and childcare must be for all, paid leave and sick days should cover everyone, and fair pay must happen.

And, don’t forget… After you click to pledge to vote, please share this link with at least 3 friends and also on social media – to get others to pledge to vote too. 

There have been rumors circulating on social media that the fires out here aren’t actually a big deal. Those rumors are wrong. Everyone living on the West Coast is a witness. From California, through Oregon, and up to Washington state fires are destroying communities. It’s unprecedented. It’s climate change. And it’s hurting people, the environment, and our communities. More than 500,000 people have had to evacuate in just the past couple of days in Oregon. [2]  The loss is staggering. And there aren’t even enough firefighters to begin to fight all the blazes. [3]

Climate change is happening. 

There have also been several questions circulating on social media about how climate change is a factor in the forest fires. Here’s an excellent explanation from NASA scientists: "Hot and dry. These are the watchwords for large fires. While every fire needs a spark to ignite and fuel to burn, the hot and dry conditions in the atmosphere determine the likelihood of a fire starting, its intensity and the speed at which it spreads. Over the past several decades, as the world has increasingly warmed, so has its potential to burn.” [4]  Essentially, there are hundreds of fires in Oregon, California, and Washington – all started in different ways: Many by lightning, some by cars inadvertently sending soot onto dry vegetation, some by power transmission lines (which is why many public utilities are now turning off the power out West), some by people, and many by accident. ---> In all of this, climate change is a major factor because normally downed power-lines, soot sparks from tires, or even arson, wouldn't cause hundreds of thousands of acres to burn -- climate change set the conditions in which semi-normal sparks turned into massive wildfires. 

This is a big deal.

It’s now up to us to vote for a President and candidates who will bring us climate change solutions, justice, healthcare, paid leave and sick days, and childcare.. 

*Please join me in pledging to vote for a new president in the 2020 General Election by clicking here: https://action.momsrising.org/sign/climatechange/

Thank you,

- Kristin, Donna, and the entire MomsRising/MamasConPoder team

#OregonFires #CaliforniaFires #WashingtonFires

References:

[1] "California, Oregon, and Washington live wildfire maps are tracking the devastation in real time," FastCompany
[2] "Dozens missing as firefighters battle two large Oregon fires," AP News
[3] "Holiday Farm fire ravages Oregon towns, premier outdoor playground near Eugene: ‘Catastrophic damage’," Oregon Live
[4] "Satellite Data Record Shows Climate Change's Impact on Fires," NASA

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