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  • Today we hear nations and leaders all over the world speak of an existential climate emergency.

  • And yet, instead of taking the immediate action you would in any emergency,

  • they set up vague, hypothetical, distant targets way into the future targets way into the future.

  • Targets based on loopholes and incomplete numbers.

  • Targets like Net zero emissions 2050.

  • Targets that equal surrender.

  • It's like waking up in the middle of the night, seeing your house on fire and then deciding to wait 10, 20 or 30 years

  • before you call the Fire department while labeling those trying to wake people up alarmists.

  • We understand that the world is complex and that change doesn't happen overnight.

  • But you've now had more than three decades of blah, blah, blah.

  • How many more do you need?

  • You cannot negotiate with physics.

  • And your children and grandchildren will hold you accountable for the choices that you make.

  • How's that for a deal?

Today we hear nations and leaders all over the world speak of an existential climate emergency.

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