THIS CLIMATE DEMANDS LEADERS
ACTION ONE: CALL YOUR SENATORS
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
I am calling for two reasons:
First, you must call for impeachment. Today. Your continuing failure to do so – in the face of obvious and massive evidence of obstruction of justice, child cruelty, and inflaming racism – is disgraceful. Your constituents are counting on you. Please do not let us down.
Second, you must endorse the effort to classify climate chaos as an emergency, H.Cong.Res.52. Focusing on this “emergency” will also broaden the conversation about the causes of Central American migration, which is suffering through its fifth year of drought. We need a leader on this too.
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS
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SAMPLE SCRIPTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
FOR BLUMENAUERAND BONAMICI:
I am calling because this is a time that requires great leadership. You have demonstrated that leadership with your early support for an impeachment inquiry and for yourclimate emergency resolution. For those actions, I am thankful you are my congressman/congresswoman.
I ask that you intensify efforts to win support for these issues by working with your colleagues and through the press. This is the time to step up, again.
FOR ALL OTHER REPRESENTATIVES:
First, I demand you call for Trump’s impeachment. Today. Your continuing failure to do so – in the face of massive evidence of obstruction of justice, child endangerment, and racism – is disgraceful. Your constituents are counting on you. Please do not let us down.
Second, you must endorse the effort to classify climate chaos as an emergency, H.Cong.Res.52. Focusing on this “emergency” will also broaden the conversation about the causes of Central American migration, which is suffering through its fifth year of drought.
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
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BACKGROUND:
This summer, heat records are being set everywhere from Maine to San Francisco. Climate change is scorching Europe in triple digit heat but in the US, it’s only 90 . . . in Anchorage, Alaska.
In DC, a month’s worth of rain fell in an hour. Much of the Midwest’s farmland is unplanted because the soil is slop.
Three Members of Congress have offered a “sense of the Congress” resolution, to rebrand climate destruction a “climate emergency.”
It’s an indictment of Congress that this simple measure is unlikely to survive -thanks to a decade of well-funded obfuscation and two years of Trump muzzling climate science in government.
Sure, the nation is confronting many other problems, including a racist president working hard to transform the US into Nazi Germany.
But since climate is everywhere, its fingerprints are everywhere. Take immigration, which is straining resources on America’s southern border.
The record number of migrating families come from Central America, a region which has seen coffee crops and entire farms turn to dust in a relentless five-year drought.
This time requires great leaders. Our Senators and Representatives must lead. They must call for an impeachment inquiry and address the climate crisis head on.
SOURCES:
VOX, JULY 9, 2019: “BERNIE SANDERS AND AOC WANT CONGRESS TO DECLARE A NATIONAL EMERGENCY OVER CLIMATE CHANGE” HTTPS://WWW.VOX.COM/2019/7/9/20687526/BERNIE-SANDERS-AOC-NATIONAL-CLIMATE-CHANGE-EMERGENCY
WASHINGTON POST, JULY 10, 2019: “INTELLIGENCE AIDE, BLOCKED FROM SUBMITTING WRITTEN TESTIMONY ON CLIMATE CHANGE, RESIGNS FROM STATE DEPT.” HTTPS://WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM/CLIMATE-ENVIRONMENT/2019/07/10/INTELLIGENCE-AIDE-BLOCKED-SUBMITTING-WRITTEN-TESTIMONY-CLIMATE-CHANGE-RESIGNS-STATE-DEPARTMENT/?UTM_TERM=.5B9834DDF0B2
NBC NEWS, JULY 9, 2019: “CENTRAL AMERICA’S CHOICE: PRAY FOR RAIN OR MIGRATE” HTTPS://WWW.NBCNEWS.COM/NEWS/LATINO/CENTRAL-AMERICA-DRYING-FARMERS-FACE-CHOICE-PRAY-RAIN-OR-LEAVE-N1027346
USA TODAY, JULY 16, 2019: “‘BREAKING’ THE HEAT INDEX: US HEAT WAVES TO SKYROCKET AS GLOBE WARMS, STUDY SUGGEST” HTTPS://WWW.USATODAY.COM/STORY/NEWS/NATION/2019/07/16/HEAT-WAVES-WORSEN-BECAUSE-GLOBAL-WARMING-STUDY-SAYS/1734127001/
