[ [link removed] ]Tell presidential debate moderator Chris Wallace not to ignore the
climate crisis!

Dear MoveOn member,

My name is Anisa Nanavati, and I am the North American Continental
Coordinator of Earth Uprising, a youth-led climate justice movement.
As young people, we will bear the greatest impacts of climate change, and
we refuse to stay silent while our future is destroyed.

Chris Wallace just announced the topics he will discuss as the moderator
for the first presidential debate on September 29, and climate is missing!
This is simply unacceptable.

Unprecedented hurricanes, wildfires, flooding, and droughts are
devastating communities across the United States, and youth climate
activists are uniting to take action and demand a better future for
ourselves and future generations.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name to our petition and demand that the climate crisis be
addressed in the upcoming presidential debate on September 29.

We are asking Chris Wallace—the moderator of the first presidential debate
between Joe Biden and Donald Trump—and major news media networks to
include a segment on climate change in the presidential debates.

[3]Sign Earth Uprising's petition

We at Earth Uprising believe that equity should be at the core of all
climate change solutions. Climate change, racial justice, and economic
justice are connected. Climate change impacts communities of color and
low-income communities more than others. We are seeing this with frontline
communities having to consume toxic water and contend with harmful air
pollution.^1 We are seeing this with the farmworkers in California who are
breathing in toxic air as they do the heavy labor outdoors, while ash
rains down on them, to supply food for American families.^2

[ [link removed] ]Tell Chris Wallace and the Commission on Presidential Debates that you
want the climate crisis to be featured among other important topics
discussed at the first presidential debate.

With millions of Americans facing down climate change at their doorsteps,
those seeking to lead the country must feel the same sense of
urgency. Presidential candidates must be asked during the very first
presidential debate to describe how they will decrease and reverse the
impact of climate change on communities ravaged by flooding on
farmland, wildfires in forests, hurricanes along the coasts, and other
disasters.

Furthermore, research shows a statistical connection between death rates
from COVID-19 and long-term exposure to air pollution; each increased
microgram of this kind of pollution per cubic meter of air is associated
with an 8% increase in death from COVID-19.^3

In 2016 there were no questions on the climate crisis during the
presidential debates, but another youth-led petition did help get the
issue on the radar for a debate primary this time around. Now we need to
ensure that all Americans, regardless of their political affiliation, can
hear from the candidates themselves.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to demand a climate segment as part of the first
presidential debate.

Just like the toll on human life, the economic cost of climate change is
incalculable. In August, there were four billion-dollar weather disasters:
the derecho storm in the Midwest, Hurricanes Isaias and Laura, and
California's wildfires.^4 If that money didn't have to be spent on
responding to the fallout from the climate crisis, it could have been
spent to support and help local communities.

Questions for the first debate are "subject to possible changes because of
news developments." Let's collect as many signatures on this petition as
we can to make it clear that the climate crisis must not be ignored and
has to be addressed in the presidential debates.

[ [link removed] ]Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to
your friends.

Thanks!

–Anisa Nanavati, Earth Uprising

Sources:

1. "Pollution Is Killing Black Americans. This Community Fought Back." The
New York Times, July 28, 2020
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2. "Farm Workers Face Double Threat: Wildfire Smoke And COVID-19," NPR,
September 7, 2020
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3. "Pollution Is Killing Black Americans. This Community Fought Back." The
New York Times, July 28, 2020
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4. "Four disasters cost more than $1 billion each in August." The New York
Times, accessed September 21, 2020
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