Friends -
Early this morning, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the United Nations body responsible for assessing the science of the climate crisis — released its Sixth Assessment report.
The findings? Catastrophic.
The report emphasized what we’ve known for years: the climate crisis is “unequivocally” caused by human activity, and without significant action, in the years ahead we will continue to see hotter temperatures, rising sea levels, more extreme weather events, increased flooding, wider-spread wildfires, and more searing droughts all across the planet.
The UN Secretary General called the report “code red for humanity.”
This IPCC report must be our final warning: no community will be able to hide from the impacts of the human-driven climate crisis.
But we don’t have time to agonize — we must organize and listen to the young people, working people, frontline communities, activists, and scientists demanding action on climate.
The IPCC made clear that the only way we can hope to mitigate the disastrous consequences of climate change will be through bold, immediate steps to deeply reduce carbon emissions.
Put simply: we need a Green New Deal, and we need it now. That’s why I’m asking you today:
The Republican Party has absolutely no interest in doing anything that will hurt the bottom line of their friends in the fossil fuel industry.
I’m proud that I was re-elected because of young people who rose up to demand that our government take action on the climate crisis. It’s time for Democrats to do something with the power and responsibility the American people have entrusted us with.
Combating the climate crisis is THE environmental, economic, national security, and moral issue of our time. The good news is that our movement is growing stronger by the day, and so long as we stand together, we will make our agenda for climate justice a reality.
As always, thank you for all you do for our movement.
In solidarity,
Ed Markey
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