Our nation is being battered almost daily with heavy rain, flooding, and tornadoes. Agriculture is seriously threatened. The cost of recovery, nation-wide, will be staggering.
I believe the Democratic Leadership is like the great number of Americans who are just now, beginning to feel Climate Change personally. To encourage out of the box thinking, I sent House Speaker Pelosi an email with the message.
Madam Speaker,
Thank you for your passionate defense of Democracy and the Rule of Law.
Climate Change is the best hope for Democrats to remove Trump and win in 2020.
I follow the daily news from Congress, attempting to look beyond the headlines and sound bites. However, the esoterica of politics, science, and rule of law is lost on many of my friends because it is not immediate and physical. We don’t wake up in the morning to discover Russians in our backyards.
What we find are clear signs that Climate Change is here, it is immediate and physical, and impacts our wallets, health, and the futures of us and our children.
We need a 2nd front against Trump and Climate Change is the issue. During the last 12 months, Climate Change has provided ample examples of its destructive capabilities.
Almost every week, large swaths of our nation are hit with terrifying weather, putting tens of millions of fellow Americans’ lives and property at risk.
This planting season has been a disaster. Farmers struggling with lost markets are now unable to plant their fields due to flooding or being waterlogged. I live in the upper mid-west where our farmers have already missed corn planting and now soy crops are threatened. These conditions are occurring in other parts of the U.S. and across the globe. Our food network is in jeopardy.
Climate Change makes solving our other problems impossible.
It is time for Democrats to seize the initiative by vigorously educating us, the American people, on the reality of Climate Change. We are feeling it. The 2018 UN climate report stated that we have 10-12 years to radically transform our energy use and society if we wish to survive. This is not hyperbole. There is a genuine urgency to educate, mobilize and act.
We Democrats must take Climate Change at least as seriously as we do the Russians attacking our elections, Health Care, Women’s Reproductive Rights, Jobs and Financial Security, National Security and the rest. The house must pass effective climate legislation and passionately promote it.
We are up to our necks in climate disasters, not Russians or tax returns. Go with what we are experiencing.