We, the citizens of our nation and of our Earth, are endowed with certain rights, powers, and obligations, which demand we act to preserve and protect the longer term of humanity also as Earth's other animal and biological life.

Based on abundant scientific evidence, we recognize that our global climate is rapidly warming and becoming increasingly unstable thanks to human-caused atmospheric carbon pollution primarily at this point from the burning of fossil fuels.

We also recognize that in spite of 35 years of credible scientific warnings, heating remains rising and is now at dangerous levels!
we've already seen global warming-aggravated weather, like record-breaking floods, hurricanes, and wildfires. we've witnessed the "worst in centuries" droughts and mud storms. we've experienced alternating unseasonably cold then warm winters, extreme storms, bomb cyclones, and rain bombs where weeks or months' worth of rain falls during a few hours or a couple of days.

With our own eyes, we see that something very abnormal is occurring to the previous stability of our normal weather and seasonal patterns. we've also noticed that heating connected consequences (like those just mentioned,) are getting more frequent, more severe, and are affecting larger and bigger areas!