Global climate change is one of the most serious threats to the environment, health and economy of our nation and our world. The passage of America's Clean Energy and Security Act in the House means the fight for strong climate change legislation moves onto the Senate.
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As the world's largest per capita source of greenhouse gas emissions, the United States must set a firm limit, or cap, on greenhouse gas emissions. The cap must decline over time to meet pollution-reduction goals based on the best scientific information. Enforceable interim and long-term goals are needed to compel early and effective action and guard against irreversible damage.
The scientific evidence is clear that climate change, caused largely by human emissions of greenhouse gases, is here now, already causing increasingly severe droughts and heat waves in some areas, intensifying floods and hurricanes in others, and triggering more wildfires. Climate change can devastate crops, create drinking water shortages, displace millions of people because of floods and increase the spread of diseases like malaria.
Establishing the declining cap, based on science and without loopholes, is the single most important issue in climate change and energy legislation. It is our nation's responsibility to take immediate action to curb the environmental and public health damages we are already experiencing from greenhouse gas emissions, as well as those that threaten the future vitality of the Earth.
Take action today to encourage your Senators to support strong global climate change legislation!
TAKE ACTION
1. Contact your Senators now, by phone or by email, and tell them to support strong climate change legislation. Tell them that global climate change is one of the most serious threats to the environment, health and economy of our nation and our world.
2. Send this alert to other concerned citizens - your grassroots network, your friends and coworkers. Encourage them to contact their Senators today!
BACKGROUND
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