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choco_frosh) wrote2021-09-04 08:36 pm
choco_frosh) wrote2021-09-04 08:36 pm
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Writing my Congressional delegation about climate change. Here the text, if anyone wants to copy it.
Dear Representative Clark,
With the lovely weather we've been having around Boston this weekend, it can be hard to remember; but it's become ever-increasingly clear this year that climate change has reached a crisis point. Merely in the United States, wildfires and extreme temperatures have devastated much of the west, and hurricanes have brought catastrophic flooding, tornadoes, and massive power outages in Louisiana, the New York area, and parts of our own commonwealth. And we can expect the situation to become worse in the coming years.
Yet it seems that all of our attention, as a nation, is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan. While I do not wish to downplay either of these tragedies, they are, by their very nature, temporary. Global warming, on the other hand, has not stopped, and its effects will linger for centuries. Yet it does not receive the attention, the concern, and the fury of this year's events.
It seems to me that the only way that we, as a nation, will ever take effective action to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions is if the severity of the situation is as much on everyone's mind as Afghanistan and the coronavirus are at the moment. But how will they believe in its importance if they do not hear about it? Or how will they hear, without someone proclaiming it? For change to come, we all have a duty to remind our fellow citizens that the "natural" disasters of this years are not in fact entirely natural at all; that this is a real problem, that we have caused, and that we need to do something about. As an elected official, you have both the platform and the responsibility to do exactly that. I would therefore ask that you remind Congress--and through them, the American people--about the need to stop global warming, and to do it soon, and repeatedly, and loudly.
Sincerely,
Schreiber
Okay, now imma make banana bread. Some day I will get around to looking for more apartments...
Dear Representative Clark,
With the lovely weather we've been having around Boston this weekend, it can be hard to remember; but it's become ever-increasingly clear this year that climate change has reached a crisis point. Merely in the United States, wildfires and extreme temperatures have devastated much of the west, and hurricanes have brought catastrophic flooding, tornadoes, and massive power outages in Louisiana, the New York area, and parts of our own commonwealth. And we can expect the situation to become worse in the coming years.
Yet it seems that all of our attention, as a nation, is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan. While I do not wish to downplay either of these tragedies, they are, by their very nature, temporary. Global warming, on the other hand, has not stopped, and its effects will linger for centuries. Yet it does not receive the attention, the concern, and the fury of this year's events.
It seems to me that the only way that we, as a nation, will ever take effective action to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions is if the severity of the situation is as much on everyone's mind as Afghanistan and the coronavirus are at the moment. But how will they believe in its importance if they do not hear about it? Or how will they hear, without someone proclaiming it? For change to come, we all have a duty to remind our fellow citizens that the "natural" disasters of this years are not in fact entirely natural at all; that this is a real problem, that we have caused, and that we need to do something about. As an elected official, you have both the platform and the responsibility to do exactly that. I would therefore ask that you remind Congress--and through them, the American people--about the need to stop global warming, and to do it soon, and repeatedly, and loudly.
Sincerely,
Schreiber
Okay, now imma make banana bread. Some day I will get around to looking for more apartments...