The Climate Youth Movement’s Earth Day Message to Biden

📆 4/26/2024 2:34 PM
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Helen Mancini is a junior at Stuyvesant High School and a climate and social justice organizer with Fridays for Future NYC. She has been a lead organizer for four global school strikes and many local rallies while continuing to protest outside City Hall every Friday.

Last weekend, we flooded our streets and campuses with our voices and votes. Tens of thousands of young people along with the Sunrise Movement, Fridays for Future U.S., and Reclaim Earth Day, in more than 200 actions nationwide, are demanding bold action because billions of lives are under threat, and we need our leaders to act like it.

By declaring a climate emergency using the National Emergencies Act , Biden would unlock critical authorities to phase out fossil fuels and protect our communities from the climate crisis—including the ability to reinstate a crude oil export ban and stop investments in fossil fuel projects abroad.

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