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Edit the text as needed and send this letter to your Representatives, Senators and/or President.
Dear (name of politician):
No personal disrespect is intended, but the United States government along with governments around the world, has failed catastrophically to prevent climate collapse — even though they were given a decades-long advance warning by scientists. Not only has the United States failed, but so has China, India, Russia, Brazil, Australia and pretty much every industrial and environmentally significant country on the planet.
This is not a personal failure of you or of any politician. This is a systemic failure; it seems that every government is strongly influenced or controlled by the fossil fuel industry. And that industry is committed to maximizing profits at the expense of destroying our children’s planet.
Sane and caring people cannot let this happen.
I am not by temperament a revolutionary and I continue to oppose violence against any human being. But I am fully in favor of forcing the resignation of every government on Earth through non-cooperation, strikes and non-negotiable demands. It seems to me that governments must treat climate collapse as an ACTUAL EMERGENCY — or step down in favor of people who will.
