Tell CNN to Ask Candidates If They View Global Warming as a Moral Issue

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

Finally, CNN has scheduled a presidential candidate forum on climate change, Democratic voters’ top issue. Thank you for signing petitions and sending letters to the moderators: your activism helped make this happen!

The Climate Crisis Town Hall, scheduled for September 4th, is a chance for candidates to have a nationally televised serious and in-depth conversation about the moral issue of our time. Let’s make sure the moderators ask candidates if they view global warming as a moral issue—act now at http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/50836/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=26460.

Many of the candidates tout their religious faith. How does their faith impact their position on caring for Creation and our climate? The climate crisis is costing lives, driving desperate refugees to our border, and threatening our children’s future. Will those who would be president come into office prepared to address this issue with moral urgency, and to put equitable climate policies in place immediately?

Let’s not miss this opportunity: urge CNN moderators to ask the candidates to discuss how their values affect their views on the climate crisis.

As people of faith and conscience, we believe climate change is not just a political, scientific, or environmental issue, but a moral issue that compels us to act. It harms to least among us, it is devastating to God’s creatures and Creation, and it is fueling extreme weather that is taking people’s lives. And it is a grave threat to future generations. We need to know whether those who would be president see it that way.

Climate change is also an intersectional issue that impacts many others – from national security, to the economy, to justice, to human health. The good news is that truly just and comprehensive climate solutions will make us safer, build our economy, create clean energy jobs, reduce economic inequality, and improve health.

Click here to urge CNN moderators to ask candidates whether they believe climate change is a moral issue in the Climate Crisis Town Hall.