Hi Friends,

The U.S. Congress has always given dramatically larger subsidies to fossil fuels than to solar or wind. Yet, just now, in the middle of a heat wave, with renewables having just become the world's largest source of electricity, not to mention the most affordable, the Energy Secretary has announced an end to all subsidies for solar and wind and the removal of energy efficiency rules for home appliances, risking disastrous power outages.

Congress could make this country a leader in renewable energy in a short period of time for a fraction of what it spends on wars that the President openly says are fought for fossil fuels. (Or do we keep using fossil fuels in order to have wars over them?)

Tell your Representative and Senators to reverse U.S. policies from climate destruction to climate protection with the urgency required by the question of life or death for many millions of people!

The United States has done more damage to the climate than any other nation, and its current level of climate damage is rivaled only by China, which has four times as many people and is now engaged in the world's largest investment in green energy.

Thousands have already died in Europe this summer from climate-change-driven heat, hundreds of thousands have suffered that fate globally since 2000 including at least 20,000 in the United States, and this suffering and death from predictable and predicted heat increases doesn't even include the suffering and deaths from increasingly violent storms and so-called natural disasters also driven by climate change.

Tell your so-called representatives how to start representing you and those who will come after you!

In addition to emailing Congress at the link, you can phone your representative's and senators' offices at this number (all you have to know is your address and that you'd like them to stop making the planet hotter):

(202) 224-3121

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Thanks for all you do!

In Solidarity,
The RootsAction Team

Background:
>> World Health Organization: "Climate inaction is claiming millions of lives every year, warns new Lancet Countdown report"

>> Euronews: "Climate change tripled death toll of latest European heatwave, first ever rapid study finds"

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