The Pacific Northwest heat wave this past summer killed over 1,000 people.

Climate change killed those people.

And somehow — while their families continue to grieve — policy makers and the media have forgotten about them.

The whole show — this whole rotten political circus — just keeps on going. Well, I don’t forget. I’m running for Congress because life on Earth is at stake if we don’t seriously address climate change. Every other issue will become moot. I’m running against a Chevron-funded politician who’s taken millions in corporate money, so I need your help. Can you donate now?

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Climate change is an existential threat because it threatens our existence. It is killing people now and it will kill untold numbers of people if we don’t completely change how we do things.

At this point, aiming for “net zero emissions by 2050” is a form of climate denial. We don’t need “net zero.” We need “zero zero.” Real zero. Because any more greenhouse gases adds fuel to the fire, and 2050 is way too late.

That’s why I support ending the current $20 billion a year in fossil fuel subsidies immediately, completely ending the use of fossil fuels by 2030, and spending whatever it takes to transition to a renewable-energy economy ASAP.

Bold, sudden, drastic, and positive change is possible. Just look at how the US government responded to WWII:

Spent more money in current dollars between 1942 and 1945 than it had between 1789 and 1941.
Civilian industries were rapidly retooled, e.g., within a matter of weeks, auto-manufacturing machinery was jackhammered out of the floor of factories and replaced with machinery for war production. Ford made a long-range bomber almost every hour.
To save fuel, the national speed limit was set at 35mph.
The civilian workforce increased by 10 million, and the number of US troops increased 26x.
We manufactured mind-boggling amounts of war materiel, including 300,000 planes and 44 billion rounds of ammunition.

We need a similarly large and rapid response to climate change now.

Climate change is a political problem — a problem of lack of political will. Democrats in Congress should not be negotiating themselves down on climate spending. $3.5 trillion on the Build Back Better bill was already the compromise. And even if that entire $3.5 trillion had been for climate, it still wouldn’t have been enough.

If I were in Congress right now, I’d be fighting to spend more money on climate, not less. Chip in now to help me win, so I can do that next session in Congress.

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Thank you,

-Rebecca Parson

Candidate for Congress, WA-06

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