Dear John,

This week is Climate Week, and our campaign is all in. Yesterday I spoke at the MSNBC/Georgetown University Presidential Forum on Climate Change, and of course, our campaign will be participating in the Climate Strike organized by Greta Thunberg. 

Our biggest crisis regarding the climate emergency is humanity’s state of denial about its scale. Yet facing the problem is a prerequisite to dealing with it effectively. It is a psychological and moral challenge to face the horror of what stands before us over the next ten years should we not act; yet there—in our standing raw before the truth that it confronts us with—lies our hope for surviving it.

What is necessary is a full-scale climate emergency mobilization effort, not unlike the kind of effort undertaken by the United States during WW2. Without such an effort, the world will begin to see social collapse and mass starvation unprecedented during our lifetime. The climate crisis could become “civilization-threatening.” Refugee crises, extreme weather events, non-survivable global temperatures making certain places uninhabitable, global food crises, economic collapse—none of those phrases are hyperbolic. They are warnings. 

The United States needs a president who understands that incremental change, even bold incremental change in regards to the climate crisis, is not enough to stave off environmental catastrophe. We need a president who 1) can articulate the moral imperative to create a full-scale mobilization to reverse climate change, and 2) enroll the people of the United States, including large-scale industries, in the effort.

I am that person.

You can read my policy on the environmental crisis here. 

Please give generously to the campaign in order to increase our capacity to get the word out, and rise to the occasion in every way.

Your support makes all the difference and I thank you.

All my best,
Marianne