Sign Faith Leader Letter Calling on Congress to Support Climate/Clean Energy Infrastructure

From Interfaith Power and Light (http://interfaithpowerandlight.org):

As faith leaders, clergy, and leaders of religious communities, we invite you to join in signing onto a letter to Congress at https://interfaithpowerandlight.salsalabs.org/climateinfrastructure/index.html calling for a bold economic recovery and infrastructure package that creates family and community sustaining jobs while caring for this sacred earth and our neighbors.

It is the moral responsibility of our nation, and our sacred task as people of faith, to care for our neighbors, our common home, and protect our children’s future. We must work for environmental justice and public health while addressing the climate crisis.

Please add your name to this letter to Congress.

We have an opportunity to pass economic recovery and infrastructure legislation that includes historic levels of investment to safeguard Creation; to address the harms of climate change and pollution caused by fossil fuel extraction and related industries; and to fulfill our moral obligation to leave a thriving world for future generations.

From historic wildfires to record-breaking extreme weather, climate change is devastating our health and destroying our environment. Links between pollution and the pandemic have put low wealth communities and communities of color at far greater health risks than other communities. COVID-19 has also exposed hidden health care disparities, environmental injustices, and economic inequities in the United States.

These competing crises ignited an urgent call to action to address climate change and environmental injustice together. We need Congress to pass recovery and infrastructure legislation that includes critical investments in environmental justice communities as we seek to rebuild the economy in a resilient, sustainable, and equitable way.

​We will deliver the letter to members of Congress in mid-June as Congress is finalizing an infrastructure package. Please add your name now.

Thank you for all you are doing to act for justice in our world.