Immediate action is needed to stop global warming, which is responsible for powerful wildfires, storms, droughts, and many health problems—from respiratory illness to heat-related deaths—facing everyone including our own communities and people around the world.

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Sign the petition demanding an end to fossil fuel subsidies.

Dear MoveOn member,

Experts in fields ranging from public health to meteorology agree that we are in the middle of a global climate disaster which is hurting and killing millions of people annually and which will only get worse. Without immediate action, it will upend life as we know it for hundreds of millions of people.

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report outlines how many of the changes we are experiencing globally "are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years."1

The U.S. should acknowledge the damage the fossil fuel industry causes and be a global leader. Tell President Biden, Congress, and federal climate leaders to stop giving billions of dollars in subsidies to companies that are destroying the planet and killing people.

Immediate action is needed to stop the global warming which is responsible for powerful wildfires, storms, droughts, and many health problems—from respiratory illness to heat-related deaths—facing everyone, from our own communities to people around the world.

The fossil fuel industry is one of the biggest contributors to rising temperatures globally.2 The U.S. must immediately end the $20 billion in government subsidies we give to these massive corporations like ExxonMobil and Shell—and encourage U.S.-based companies and our global allies to invest in a sustainable future.3 This global problem requires a global solution.

IPCC Co-Chair Valérie Masson-Delmotte says, "It has been clear for decades that the Earth’s climate is changing, and the role of human influence on the climate system is undisputed."4
 
Furthermore, Co-Chair Panmao Zhai says that "Stabilizing the climate will require strong, rapid, and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and reaching net-zero CO2 emissions."5
 
Public health experts also know how bad global warming is for human beings.

Everyone can see the increase in severity of flooding, storms, heat, drought, and wildfires, but this is about more than burning forests and rising oceans.

Click here to add your name to this petition demanding an end to government subsidies of fossil fuel companies, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks for all you do.

–Pulin, Jensine, David, Justin, and the rest of the team

Sources: 

1. "Sixth Assessment Report," The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, accessed August 9, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/155065?t=12&akid=303754%2E40999114%2ElgCDeB

2. "Fossil fuels and climate change: the facts," ClientEarth, November 11, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/155066?t=14&akid=303754%2E40999114%2ElgCDeB

3. "Reforming global fossil fuel subsidies: How the United States can restart international cooperation," Brookings, July 14, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/155075?t=16&akid=303754%2E40999114%2ElgCDeB

4. "U.N. releases blistering assessment on the state of climate change," NBC News, August 9, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/155067?t=18&akid=303754%2E40999114%2ElgCDeB

5. "Sixth Assessment Report," The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, accessed August 9, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/155065?t=20&akid=303754%2E40999114%2ElgCDeB

6. "How climate change threatens public health," Yale Climate Connections, August 19, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/155068?t=22&akid=303754%2E40999114%2ElgCDeB

7. Ibid. 

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

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