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Do you know the parable of the boiling frog? I’ll give you the gist:
As humans, we tend to react quickly to sudden events (not unlike, say, a frog immediately jumping out of a pot of boiling water). But we fail to react to slowly changing conditions (like a pot of water heating up incrementally)—until it’s too late.
When it comes to climate change, it can sometimes feel like we’re the frogs. This week, the skies in New York were filled with smoke from wildfires burning thousands of miles away.
The record-breaking heat wave in the Pacific Northwest this summer killed hundreds of people and more than one billion sea creatures. The Midwest and Mississippi Valley are being hit by a relentless deluge of heavy storms and flooding. Droughts are fueling out-of-control wildfires.
Climate change is here—and it is impacting all of us. [[link removed]]
Staving off disaster requires bold action to break the fossil fuel industry’s stranglehold on our politics. We need to embrace clean energy and create green jobs—it's our only hope for a sustainable future for our children. We can't accept a future where Earth becomes unlivable—we have to fight to protect it.
This is our moonshot. We have an opportunity—right now—to enact bold, sweeping legislation that will protect our planet for generations to come and create good-paying, clean-energy jobs.
But I need your help to stand up and speak out. Please, add your voice to demand big action on climate change—before it’s too late. [[link removed]]
Here’s what’s coming if we don’t protect our planet: critical food and water shortages, stronger and more frequent wildfires and major storms, and an increasing number of climate refugees who will be forced to leave their homes.
That’s just a couple short decades away. My boys, Henry and Theo, will be in the prime of their lives, making decisions for themselves and their families, uncertain if the planet’s in good enough shape to support their plans and dreams for the future.
It breaks my heart, and quite honestly, it makes me angry. The scientific consensus is clear: The planet is warming, and humans have made it worse. Yet the greed of polluters who put their bottom lines over our collective well-being has stymied action.
I truly believe that we can meet this moment. That starts with passing a landmark infrastructure deal in the Senate that fights climate change and creates millions of good-paying, green jobs.
But it’s going to take all of us standing together to get it done. If you agree that Congress must take BOLD action on climate change, please, add your name now >> [[link removed]]
I’m so grateful,
Kirsten
P.S. Here’s one of my favorite pictures of Theo, Henry and me (from almost ten years ago!). I’ll fight with everything I have to make sure my kids—and their kids—can share these moments, too. And we will win.
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