Fridays For Future Greater Sudbury Call to Action #LeMomentEstVenu

Climate action will make our lives affordable #LeMomentEstVenu

Dear Friends,

Five years ago on December 8, 2018, with the help of many friends across Canada, we helped organize Canada's first Fridays For Future National strike. Greta Thunberg Tweeted her appreciation to us.  Things are not moving fast enough. We are worried about the fact that the Earth just passed an ominous milestone. In November, a global temperature above 2C for the first time was recorded for the first time.
 

"We know it is still possible to make the 1.5° limit a reality. It requires tearing out the poisoned root of the climate crisis: fossil fuels. And it demands a just, equitable renewables transition." 
António  Guterres, 
Secretary-General of the United Nations

Equally disturbing is the bullying behaviour of some Canadian politicians lately. We can guess what is behind this bullying behaviour: the well-documented decades-long climate confusion campaign funded by fossil fuels.

Five-year-olds know how to stand up to a bully. Like in the story "Matilda"  when she confronts the bully and school principal, Miss ("The") Trunchbull, we need to unite. Then we need to do two things: 

  1. Make polluters pay. 
  2. Join the  European Union, the State of California, Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, the W.H.O., and many more and  Endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. In Sudbury, three prominent local doctors have recently published a letter asking our city to do just that. 

The best part about these actions is they will make our lives more affordable.

So we are asking you to send our local politicians (municipal, MPPs, MPs and Senators) a digital letter. It is really simple.

  • Fill in your name, email, and postal code.
  • Note that the letter will automatically add the salutations to the politicians
  • You can edit the letter if you wish to personalize it a bit.
  • Press on “Add Your Voice”.
  • Announce to the world that you signed with the share functions and this tag #LeMomentEstVenu
  • Please help us get more signatures. Consider taking some extra time to directly text the link to your fellow CCL members and family members across Canada kindly asking them to sign it too. We know from experience that direct messaging is much more effective than posting on social media and emailing.

Keep scrolling and you can see the full letter in its entirety with hyperlinks.

Merci, miigwech and thank you, Le Moment Est Venu.

Fridays For Future Greater Sudbury


====================================================================

Dear ________

Thank you for your service. I am concerned about the climate crisis. I know your job addressing this crisis has been made difficult because of the decades-long climate disinformation funded by the fossil fuel industry which has been well-documented.  

Lately, there has been disinformation about the causes of inflation, linking it to Canada’s carbon price. The President of the Bank of Canada confirms: that the carbon tax barely affects inflation (just 0.15 percentage points).

The main causes of the affordability crisis are post-pandemic disruptions, the Ukraine war, and corporate greed within grocery chains and fossil fuel industries. Notably, high fossil fuel prices are historically inseparable from inflation and economic crises. Mark Zandi, the chief economist at credit rating agency Moody’s, said in an article for Vox that “every recession since World War II has been preceded by a jump in oil prices”. 

And here is some great news: 

Taking action on the climate crisis will enhance the affordability of our lives.  The climate crisis has already inflicted a staggering cost of $16 million per hour in extreme weather damages over the past two decades and without decisive action now, it will get much worse. As well, carbon pricing coupled with rebates, as we have in Canada, further improves the affordability of climate action.

What we need now is political leadership. There is no time to lose. #LeMomentEstVenu (the time is now). We need governments, from local to national levels, to listen to the experts and work together on this climate emergency, just like they did during COVID-19.  Doing this won’t just save lives—it’ll make our lives more affordable.

Thus, I want you to know that I will stand behind the politicians who support a global treaty to unwind our economies from fossil fuels and policies that make polluters pay.

Cordially