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Corporations vs Climate

Powerful corporations are undermining our ability to confront the rapidly growing menace of climate change. We must mobilize NOW with calls, emails, and Letters to the Editors.  Keep LTEs under 150 words, and be sure to your name, address and phone number.  For content suggestions, see the articles below.

You can also call the US Congressional Switchboard at 202-224-3121.  Simply ask for a congressperson's office and you'll be connected.

 

What's happening in Texas?

Here in Texas, all-powerful fossil fuel corporations pulled the strings of seven Texas Democratic congress members.  They signed a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi advocating for maintaining fossil fuel subsidies.  Conservative estimates put U.S. direct subsidies to the fossil fuel industry at roughly $20 billion per year.  This comes as we witnessed a summer of droughts, fires, flooding and hurricanes.

 

...and across the globe

Meanwhile Antonio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary- General, warned that “unless we collectively change course, there is a high risk of failure” at the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

 

While many world leaders talk about the existential threat of climate change, their plans to combat it and thus protect all of us are severely lacking.

 

Success at Glasgow is vital because we are out of time. Top scientists tell us we have at most 2-4 years to severely cut emissions or face catastrophic consequences. If we fail at Glasgow, it’ll be years before an opportunity to change course—anywhere from 6-13 years, as previous conferences have shown.

 

We must see action now.
 
 

What We’re Doing, and How You Can Help

The Texas Drought Project was formed in the fall of 2008 when we worked on the first big US climate bill called Waxman-Markey. In the following years we did climate education all over the state in hundreds of forums.

We need only $2500 per month to sustain this critical push to our last best chance for a safe future.  Any donation of $100 or more will be matched!