Friend,
We are running out of time.
The term "climate change" is not strong enough to describe what we are experiencing.
This is a climate crisis. And without drastic, immediate change on a global scale, it could be the end of everything.
This month, the World Meteorological Organization said that 2019 could be on track to be the second warmest year in history. According to WMO Secretary-General Peterri Taalas, we are barreling head first into a temperature increase of more than 3°C by the end of the century.
At this temperature increase, plants will stop absorbing carbon dioxide. We will see widespread coastal flooding, critical food and water shortages, and famine breakouts around the world.
Despite this devastating news, there is a way forward. It’s a Green New Deal.
This is not a time for incremental change. When the world is on fire, it is not enough to bring a watering can and call it a “solution.” The world needs a Green New Deal.
In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) analyzed the data and came to a frightening conclusion: the planet’s temperature will warm 1.5ºC. This is our best case scenario.
The goal now is to limit it to just 1.5ºC, and that would take “urgent and far more ambitious action to cut emissions by half by 2030, and reach net zero emissions by 2050.”
That is not happening. The fossil fuel industry and other Big Money industries are making sure of it.
Susan Collins has called a Green New Deal “unrealistic.” What Senator Collins is saying is that we can’t afford to save our planet. I say we can’t afford not to.
In Solidarity,
Betsy
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Betsy Sweet for U.S. Senate
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Hallowell, ME 04347
United States
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