The Senate must act decisively to protect our communities; we are concerned about the social, environmental, political and economic costs that mean not action to promulgate an effective Law to fight Global Warming. To mention some aspects, we are concerned because:
In Public Health, the increase in temperature makes us more vulnerable to cardiac diseases; it brings about respiratory problems and increases to the levels of ozone at ground level, accelerating asthma attacks. The high temperatures also increase the propagation of vectors that transmit diseases of infectious character such as dengue and malaria.
On the Environment, the increase of the temperature of the planet: increases precipitations and the intensity and occurrence of climatologic phenomena; it causes the wind back and disappearance of glaciers overflowing glacial lakes and increases the annual variation of the volume in the rivers; it acidifies the oceans destroying habitats and species; it erodes the coasts; and it causes loss of biodiversity, among others.
In the Economy, the cost of not acting is reflected today in an increase of prices, for example: of energy by heat waves; in the increase of real estate insurance premiums against the risk of occurrence of intense natural phenomena that cause disasters; in the loss of agricultural crops by the extreme and unexpected climate changes.
The Inter-governmental Panel of Experts on Climate Change (PECC) estimate that there will be 150 million refugees in the year 2050, due mainly to the purposes of coastal floods, coastal erosion and the agricultural upheavals, this compromises the border security. In conclusion, the tendency is to the exponential sum of problems if we do not act now. Please, send this letter to your Senators so that they approve the Law and guarantee us a prosperous present, healthy and ecological balanced for a sustainable future.
Common Ground for Conservation%u2019s America Verde Alliance initiative will send this letter to the Senator, in the name of all those subscribed.
Dear Senator,
The subscribed owners, leaders, members, volunteers and constituents of our businesses and organizations, we urge you to support the project of the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
Our nation deserves an efficient and effective energy legislation that assures us a more healthy and prosperous future. We deserve to be world-wide leaders in the practice of a low carbon economy, able to stop global warming, to generate jobs in clean energies and that form the bases to reduce our dependency on oil and, consequently, increase the energy security of the nation.
It has taken us a long time to agree that Global Warming is a certain fact. Our economic crisis can be worsened if we allow Global Warming to cause more damage. We have the opportunity to live in a healthy and ecologically balanced atmosphere and to improve our economy generating jobs that lead us to a low carbon economy. This is the moment for voting for sustainability. Please support the project now.
