John, I'm writing today to ask you to make a $10 contribution to the Sunrise Movement.


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Here's why this request is so important John — especially today.

Earlier this year, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report confirmed what we've known for decades: The United States and countries throughout the world must move extremely aggressively in combating climate change if we are to prevent irreparable damage to our country and the planet.

When we talk about the existential threat of climate change, we are talking about more floods, more rising sea levels, more extreme weather, more ocean acidification, more drought, more famine, more disease and more human suffering.

We are talking about social unrest, worsening refugee crises, substantial increases in disease and starvation and substantial decrease in standard of living across the globe.

We are talking about cities across the world — New York, Hong Kong, London, Miami, New Orleans — either at chronic risk of flooding or becoming entirely uninhabitable.

This is not a silly plot in some disaster movie. This is reality, and there is no time to lose. The future of the world as we know it is at stake.

But we don't need the IPCC to tell us this. Just take a look at the world around us, at what has happened this past year alone.

Following an unprecedented winter storm in Texas, millions of people were left without electricity as a result of major disruptions to Texas's unprepared power grid and were unable to heat their homes while temperatures dropped below freezing.

Record heat waves in the Pacific Northwest melted trolley cables and caused roads and critical infrastructure to buckle.

July 2021 was Earth’s hottest month on record as wildfires once again choked the air up and down the West Coast and severe weather brought heavy rains and catastrophic flooding to Germany and Belgium.

And earlier this month, the deadliest December tornado outbreak in history laid waste to entire cities and towns across Kentucky, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

Now I have never understood how some of my colleagues can look at these events — how they can look at the rising sea levels, the extreme weather disturbances, the disease, and the human suffering brought upon us by climate change — and decide that the right answer is to do nothing.

I have never understood how many of the same people can say that it’s too expensive to deal with this issue when economists tell us that the cost of not acting on climate change will total $34.5 trillion in the United States alone in lost economic activity and more than $100 trillion throughout the world by the end of the century.

I have never understood how many of the same people who moan and groan about immigration can choose to do nothing when the World Bank has told us that the effects of climate change could result in the mass migration and displacement of more than 140 million people in Latin America, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Maybe providing massive support to an industry that is destroying our planet for profit makes sense to some people, but it damn well does not make sense to me. And I know it doesn’t make sense to you, either.

So when we talk about climate change, this is what we're talking about. And unless we have the courage to take on the greed, the lies, the corruption and the irresponsibility of the fossil fuel giants and their powerful friends on Wall Street and in Washington, the worst is yet to come.

Thankfully, from day one, Sunrise has had the courage to demand that we think big when it comes to addressing the climate crisis.

They've already accomplished incredible things to change our course in just the past few years — building a massive young, multi-racial, and working class movement that’s ready to stop climate change with real, transformational policies like a Green New Deal. No compromise, no crumbs, no half measures, no matter what.

The fossil fuel industry and their backers in Congress haven’t seen the kind of energy and pressure that Sunrise brings to the climate change conversation in a long time. And while they’ve got the money, the writing is on the wall: The status quo on climate action — doing nothing — just isn’t working anymore. The people demand more. The people demand justice.

But here’s the truth: the year-round organizing that Sunrise engages in every day takes serious resources. And if 2021 has taught us anything, it’s that we cannot relent, not even for a moment. We cannot go too far, be too aggressive, or hold back on the issue of climate change and our planet’s future.

It's going to take an unprecedented effort from all of us to address this crisis. That's why I'm asking you today:


Will you join me in supporting Sunrise and make a $10 contribution so they can reach their $500,000 end-of-year fundraising goal? Every dollar will help grow the movement they’re building to advance bold climate action and a Green New Deal. [[link removed]]


Real change never takes place from the top on down — it only happens when millions of people stand together and fight for it, and the Sunrise Movement understands that.

Thank you for being a part of our fight, and for adding your support today if you can.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders




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