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[ [link removed] ]Tibet’s glacier is quickly melting

John, 

Lobsang Yangtso escaped from Tibet by climbing over the Himalayas when she
was just 9 years old.

Today, she's an environment and climate crisis expert with a Ph.D. And
she's terrified about what is happening in her Tibetan homeland, where ice
is melting 3x faster than anywhere else on the planet. As home to a
glacier that provides water for 1 in every 5 people on Earth...we should
all be terrified.

Lobsang wants to sound the alarm at the critical COP26 climate conference
in Glasgow, just weeks away. But the high cost of attending means she and
other front-line activists and experts are being shut out completely --
leaving the fossil fuel lobby to control the narrative and stop real
action.

We can change that -- if thousands of us chip in, our community can send
Lobsang to meet our leaders...and fund campaigning for real impact at the
conference. Can you chip in to help?



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The world’s biggest oil and gas companies will descend on the COP26 in an
all out offensive to protect their profits. Their plan is to lobby
countries to invest in gas as a path forward instead of actual clean
energy. And if they succeed, it will mean we continue down the
catastrophic pathway to 2.7-degrees of heating.

Imagine what it would mean for the next generation.

The good news is we know what we have to do to win: center the stories of
those on the front lines of climate disaster to show world leaders that
the cost of inaction is just too high.

But a combination of travel costs, visa complexities, and new covid
restrictions requiring vaccinated people from South America, India, and
Africa to quarantine means that the people we most need at the table won’t
be there. Unless our community steps in.

Lobsang knows exactly what is happening to the environment in Tibet and
has witnessed firsthand the impact of the climate crisis in this fragile
and vital land.

If we’re going to have a shot at taking on the massive oil and gas lobby,
we need voices like Lobsang’s at COP26. Can you give just a small amount
to send Lobsang and her team to Glasgow?



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The threats we face are a matter of life or death. If we don’t slam the
brakes on runaway climate change, our future is extreme weather, food
shortages, and millions displaced. The next few months will decide if we
succeed or fail, but to win we need to center the voices of the
communities with everything at stake.

The SumOfUs community has come together time and time again to stand in
solidarity with communities risking everything to change the world -- from
the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon to Bangladeshi labor organizers to
communities across the globe taking on corporate power. Let’s do it again
to save the planet we all call home.



  Thanks for all that you do,  
Allison, Sondhya and the SumOfUs team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]As climate pledges fall short, U.N. predicts globe could warm by
catastrophic 2.7 degrees Celsius. The Washington Post. 17 September 2021.
 
[ [link removed] ]Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest
warning yet. The Guardian. 9 August 2021.
 
[ [link removed] ]Oil giants lobby COP-host UK to back gas as ‘necessary compromise’.
Unearthed. 7 July 2021.

 

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