Climate change is happening now, so isn't it time we stop the things that are making it worse?
The answer is clear: We have to stop burning fossil fuels.
Dirty energy corporations want to continue business as usual, to keep raking in money while the world burns. For decades, corporate polluters like Exxon suppressed the science that showed drilling and fracking would drive climate change, harm our planet and endanger our health. And for far too long, weak politicians have helped them.
To deal with a global crisis, inaction and ineffective half-measures won't cut it.We need something different: bold, urgent action to solve the climate crisis, not appease the polluters who caused it.
Congress and the Biden administration are debating legislation like the CLEAN Future Act that substitute slick industry schemes like carbon capture and cap-and-trade for real solutions. Here’s the truth: Industry polluters won’t ever propose anything to combat climate change; they only want drilling and fracking to continue.
Big change requires courage. But the alternative is unthinkable.
Each new pipeline, compressor station, power plant, export facility, fracking operation and drilling site fuels climate change. Each new project locks us into decades of disaster. That's why President Biden and his administration need to do more than just nix Keystone XL. They need to stop Line 3, Dakota Access, fracked gas exports and Formosa Plastics, too.
The age of fossil fuels is over. It's time the people we elect stop trying to keep it afloat.That's why we're part of a powerful coalition demanding President Biden take the strong stand we need to fight climate change: Stop all new fossil fuel projects and infrastructure.
To stop climate chaos, we need to take on the fossil fuel industry and halt the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure. The time to transition to 100% renewables is now, not decades from now.
Wenonah Hauter
Founder and Executive Director
Food & Water Watch
Food & Water Watch and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Action, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate. This email was sent to [email protected] - and we're glad you got it, because it's one of the most important ways you can reclaim political power, hold elected officials accountable and resist corporate control.
