Last October, John Kerry laid out the stakes in a call with over 300 youth climate leaders: a clean energy future is only possible if we -- as a generation -- make our voice heard.
In response, we launched the Organize to be Heard Challenge, and thousands of young people have stepped up, generating thousands of phone calls, handwritten letters and petitions demanding action on climate and clean energy.
Unfortunately, despite the overwhelming call for action, there is one roadblock where all progress stops: our broken U.S. Senate. The Senate needs to know we're sick of leaders who fail to lead and tired of government which fails to govern. They need to know that we're not idealistic, we're angry.
Call your Senator and tell them to stop standing in the way of our clean energy future!
We aren't the only ones. At last week's Clean Energy Forum, Senator Kerry embraced our outrage:
I want you to go out there and start knocking on doors and telling people this has to happen. You know if the Tea Party folks can go out there and get angry because they think their taxes are too high, for God's sake, a lot of citizens ought to get angry about the fact that they're being killed and our planet is being injured by what's happening on a daily basis by the way we provide our power and our fuel and the old practices we have. That's something worth getting angry about.
Some Senators are hopelessly bought and paid for by Big Oil and Big Coal. Others want action but cower in fear of the rabid, denial-fueled fringe that gets marching orders straight from big business and big polluters.
These Senators need to know they have more than teabaggers to worry about; they have an obligation to secure our country's clean energy future. If they abdicate this responsibility to our generation, there will be consequences.
Call now: get the message to your Senators that inaction is inexcusable.
This year we learned that hope only gets you so far. It's time to get angry.
