Friday the 13th has long been superstitiously associated with fear and bad things happening. Here are some bad things we need to pay attention to, not just on this Friday the 13th, but every day. “500-year” floods are hitting Iowa every couple of years now. Hundreds of species have gone extinct and more are nearly extinct. So much devastating climate change has already happened that we can’t reverse—we can only hope to halt it so future generations actually have a livable planet.
That’s why I lent my voice to last Friday’s climate strike in Cedar Rapids. The strike and march came on the heels of Linn County declaring we are in a climate crisis due to historic flooding, weather-related agricultural losses, and a marked decline in pollinators and birds. Alongside the environmental activist group Sunrise Movement Cedar Rapids (which honored my campaign with an endorsement), I took to the streets to demand we take massive, immediate action on the climate crisis and to advocate for the creation of green jobs.
Folks, politics as usual is behind the climate crisis. Elected officials bankrolled by polluting corporations will never take the drastic measures we need to stop the destruction and support green initiatives and green jobs. My opponent, Joni Ernst, is one of Congress’s “Dirty Dozen”—lawmakers who consistently vote against clean energy and conservation. To protect our planet, she must be unseated.
I’ll fight tirelessly for a Green New Deal. I’ll fight for bold initiatives that will also create millions of green jobs. I’ll fight tirelessly to protect what can’t protect itself: the planet. And I will do anything to protect the planet’s future for my 20-year-old son, for your kids and grandkids, for you, and for all of us.
We have to act now, before it’s quite literally too late. Are you with us?
Onward to justice for all—including for the planet.
Kimberly
P.S. You can watch my speech at the strike on my Twitter and read coverage of the strike here.
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