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Philip Radford
02/15/2013
This Sunday, a new environmental movement will arrive in Washington, D.C. Thousands of people will join 350.org, the Sierra Club, and the Hip Hop Caucus’ “Forward on Climate” rally to call out with one voice and demand Obama keep his promise to future generations.
I will be proud to be there with them.
If you’re coming to D.C. this weekend, you won’t see your parents’ environmental movement here on the Mall. The climate crisis has forged a new, diverse coalition of Americans who have seen the effects of our fossil fuel dependency and want no future with it.
Drought-stricken farmers in Iowa get it. Homeowners from the Jersey Shore get it. Eroding Alaskan native communities get it. Flooded families in New Orleans get it. They will all be part of thousands of people here on Sunday who get it — America’s energy past is dead in the ground. Our energy future is in the air, with wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources. The Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring dirty tar sands oil from Canada through the U.S. for export, will lead only to further darkness.
Millions of people around the country have lived the effects of climate change and now share this vision of the future. We all cheered President Obama’s spirited call to action in his inaugural address — “We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations” — and we hope he keeps his word. But we know that powerful interests want these words to simply be empty rhetoric.
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