Fighting the Climate Crisis requires bold leaders, ask Rep. Krishnamoorthi to be that leader

We leaned from the recent IPCC report on the Climate Crisis that we have 12 years to reduce our carbon emissions 45% and we need to be off carbon by mid-century, or the consequences get bleak. Not familiar with the report? Check out our TL/DR on the Climate Crisis panel at the Sanders Institute, where top progressives met to align on policy to move people forward. It’s got the full panel video as well as our breakdown.

They agree, the Climate Crisis is the great moral and political peril of our time, and is complicated by the enormous amount of power the Koch’s and other fossil fuel companies have over our government. Indeed, the fact that this is even a conversation - when all of science agrees we have to get off carbon or die - is proof our battle is enormous.

So while it is a great comfort to hear Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-8), say he’ll “work to find much-needed solutions to our global climate crisis” the problem is, time is very very short. A select committee for a Green New Deal is, we believe, the only way we move fast enough to meet the alarming speed with which our global average temperature is rising.

The fight for this planet is not one that we can bookmark to battle later. The tremendous influence that the fossil fuel industry has over our population and government is running the clock out on our time to commit meaningful change. If we really want to hit this first 12 year deadline we need to spend between now and 2020 using this select committee to set the agenda for what the next four years 2020 through 2024 will look like.

Please join Our Revolution Northern Illinois fight to lobby Representative Krishnamoorthi for a Green New Deal. #GreenNewDeal, #OurRevolution, #ClimateCrisis