. . . to address the climate crisis.”

We can address our problems with the climate crisis, air pollution, and energy security all with the technology we have now.

📷: Solar panels in Oregon. Photo by Oregon Department of Transportation via Wikimedia Commons (bit.ly/oregonsolarpanels).

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. . . which demonstrates that we can decarbonize our energy with 🌬️🌊 ☀️wind, water, and solar power 🌬️🌊☀️(stanford.io/4psxIxf).

The prominent climate scientist Michael Mann writes that the book “presents a comprehensive and detailed blueprint for the options we have right now . . .

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Check out his fantastic short video, “7 reasons why new small & large nuclear is useless” (bit.ly/newnuclearuseless).

Then, read Professor Jacobson’s hopeful, evidence-based new book, “No Miracles Needed: How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air” . . .

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. . . the harm that we still can by working to end the reign of coal, oil, and gas as soon as we can: chesapeakepsr.org

📷: Flooding in downtown Annapolis, MD in 2010. Photo by the Chesapeake Bay Program via Flickr (bit.ly/489J3eJ)

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What will all of us do now that we know the truth?

Learn more about what Big Oil knew about climate change in its own words from Benjamin Frata here (bit.ly/frataclimate), and then join our movement to prevent all . . .

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As Stanford University Ph.D. candidate in history Benjamin Frata says, 1965 was “before San Francisco’s Summer of Love, before Woodstock, the peak of the '60s counterculture.”

What would the world look like if the leaders of the oil industry had told the truth and acted on it in 1965?

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. . . by the year 2000 the heat balance will be so modified as possibly to cause marked changes in climate.”

Why did the American Petroleum Institute not only do nothing about this, but also try to deny the role fossil fuels were and are playing in disrupting the climate?

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. . . from the catastrophic consequences of pollution, but time is running out.”

He also said, “One of the most important predictions of the report is that carbon dioxide is being added to the earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas at such a rate that . . .

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Let’s protect our communities together. We must prevent what we cannot cure.

📷: Cover of the report from Physicians for Social Responsibility.

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But individuals and health professionals alone are not enough. Protecting communities from the health harms of fossil fuel pollution requires bold policy and systemic change.”

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. . . by engaging with local organizations that are advocating for clean air and a clean energy transition, talking to community members and policymakers about the health harms of fossil fuel pollution and reducing personal reliance on fossil fuels where possible.

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. . . talk about it with one person in your community, and then join Chesapeake PSR today and learn how you can support our work for clean air, clean energy, and climate justice: chesapeakepsr.org/contact-us

More from the report:

"Individuals can also play a vital role. . .

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. . . The Hidden Health Costs of Fossil Fuel Pollution.”

The report reveals how coal, oil and methane gas cause direct health impacts at every stage of life. From the air we breathe to the water we drink, the damage is widespread.

Read the report here (psr.org/fuelingsickness) . . .

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The quote above is from a new report by Physicians for Social Responsibility, the American Public Health Association, the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, and others titled “Fueling Sickness:" . . .

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. . . each year - including an estimated 350,000 premature deaths in the U.S. alone. Beyond deaths, fossil fuel pollution is making people sick, including through heart and lung disease, cancer, adverse reproductive outcomes, neurological disorders and other chronic conditions.“

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📷: The Chesapeake Bay. Image by NASA/USGS/Landsat 5 via Wikimedia Commons (bit.ly/4ntewOr)

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. . . and who pays the costs of action (or inaction) on climate. For me the choice is very simple: I choose the long-term well-being of us all over the short-term profits of a few rich men. Keep up the fight.” (bit.ly/oxfamclimatefinance)

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The benefits in lives saved, health preserved, and homes safeguarded are incalculable.

Oxfam puts it best: “Acting on climate change now costs less than the damages we will all incur if we don’t. The biggest difference is essentially who reaps the benefits . . .

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