According to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, hundreds of millions of lives are at stake should the world warm more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, which it is on track to do by 2040.
Climate change is already having significant and costly impacts on our communities, our health and our economy. We see climate change everywhere — in longer and more damaging wild fires, more frequent and intense heat waves, rising sea levels and increased coastal flooding. Fully half of the Great Barrier Reef has been bleached to death since 2016. If nothing changes our military bases, national landmarks and the world food supply are at risk.
While some Republicans are finally starting to rethink their dangerous positions on climate change, the Republican Congressmen who represent Pennsylvania’s 12th and 15th Districts, Glenn Thompson and Tom Marino, continue to raise questions about its cause and severity — and see climate change regulation as the threat!
Polling shows that more than half of young Republicans are concerned about the issue and want action now. I encourage them to join me in supporting Marc Freidenberg for Congress. His position is clear — he supports both the development of renewable energy sources and the federal regulation of greenhouse gases.
We need leaders in Congress who will seek solutions that will protect the environment as well as develop new sources of employment and safeguard our economy.
A vote for Marc Friedenberg is a vote for the future security of our children and grandchildren.
Pamela Monk
