The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a milestone report this week that confirms what we already knew: Climate change is NOW.
This is a wake up call. The impacts of climate change are widespread and severe — from drought and wildfires to extreme storms and flooding — and they will only get worse if we don’t change course now.
To avoid the extreme impacts of climate change, our political leaders must act immediately to stop all forms of fossil fuel extraction, and make massive, necessary investments in clean, renewable energy. In the absence of any real climate leadership, we need to rise up and fight like we live here.
The urgency to pressure our elected leaders — at all levels of office — to limit warming to 1.5°C and save millions of lives is more dire than ever. It’s imperative that we hold the line at 1.5°C of warming. Impacts will escalate to unimaginable proportions as we approach warming of 2°C — twice as much as current warming.
Recent disasters represent the cost of continuing to delay climate action — from drying rivers and reservoirs in the West to historic flooding in Detroit to the deep freeze of Winter Storm Uri, which caused widespread power outages in Texas. These events will get more frequent and more severe if we don’t act now.
This is scary, but more than that, it’s a call to action for us to push our elected leaders to get their acts together and be bold on climate!
Food & Water Watch is a national leader in the fight to ban fracking and stop fossil fuel infrastructure projects. Ten years ago, we were the first national organization to call for a ban on fracking everywhere. As just part of our long list of milestone victories, we’ve banned fracking in New York, Maryland and Washington State, and we've stopped dangerous oil and gas infrastructure in states across the country.
Our approach has always been bold, uncompromising and hard-hitting because we know we can’t take shortcuts on the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced.
Wenonah Hauter
Founder and Executive Director
Food & Water Watch
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