It is 11:59 p.m. The younger you are, the more worried you need to be. This is not the time to be patient.
Recently Senator Manchin again found reasons to single-handedly kill a key climate action bill. Over 200 congressional staffers, most of whom helped craft the bill, and mostly young, sent a letter to senate and house leadership urging that a climate change bill must be passed, now.
I have heard candidates for our Minnesota legislature and federal offices comment that addressing climate change will take time. That is not the necessary answer. The time to talk about and seek perfection is over. We need to take immediate and meaningful action, now!
I’m afraid my generation is failing you, the youth, the future of our country and world, and my grandchildren. You can no longer tolerate my generation’s dithering.
You must take action, yourselves! Hold all candidates for climate change accountable. Demand that they acknowledge climate change as the number one, single most important issue, whether at state or federal level, facing our future. At political events ask what their sense of urgency is. If the answer is “It will take time”, respond with, “Wrong answer! It must be addressed, and action taken, now! Will you commit to that?”
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PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK.
Don't Threaten. Threats of harming another person will not be tolerated.
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