Climate Change: Placebo, Weak Medicine, or Real Action?
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In a speech on climate change yesterday (April 16), President Bush acknowledged that the United States must do more to address climate change. But his plan is a prescription for too little, too late.
This Earth Day, ask your legislators to help heal the Earth by taking stronger action to prevent dangerous climate change and shift our economy toward a sustainable future based on energy efficiency and renewable energy. Scientists warn that the climate is changing fast. If the United States continues to pollute the way it is today, future generations will have to take more expensive and radical action to adapt to the dangerous effects of extreme climate change.
Meaningful climate legislation would require the United States to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions at least 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
The president's proposal wouldn't even stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions until 2025. The Senate is preparing to debate legislation in June that, though stronger medicine, would only reduce U.S. emissions to about 1990 levels by 2020. This bill, introduced by Senators Joe Lieberman (CT) and John Warner (VA), would still require future generations to swallow an increasingly costly and bitter pill.
Take Action
Urge your senators to take real action to enact strong, effective legislation to address climate change this year. Urge them to strengthen the Lieberman-Warner bill (S. 2191) by requiring the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions deeper and sooner, at least 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
Background
The Most Powerful CFL Is the One You Put in Congress (PDF flyer)
Lieberman-Warner Climate Legislation Needs Strengthening
Contact your members of Congress through FCNL's web site.
Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
Sen. ________
U.S. Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Rep. ________
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
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