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There
is hardly anything more pressing than the climate
crisis. Scientists have said, again and again, that
if we don't curb emissions and pollution dramatically and
quickly, our entire world will be past the point of no return
and future generations will be born into an unfixable
situation. One of the answers staring us in the face
is wind energy, but the U.S. has been painfully slow to invest
in this world-saving, job-creating
industry.
Wind energy, a type of solar
power that comes from the ever-renewing resource of air
blowing across the earth's surface, is the future of clean
energy. Huge, majestic wind turbines catch the passing gusts
with its blades and that kinetic energy is generated into
electricity. It is a remarkably simple, beautiful process that
creates zero emissions from the turbines themselves. Other
than clean energy, what it does create is jobs — and lots of
them. Despite all this, the United States has an
offshore wind energy capacity of a measly 0.003 GW compared to
Europe's 20GW.
Luckily, that is set to change
under Biden's presidency, but we need to hold him accountable
to the aggressive clean energy goals he has promised! The
Biden administration recently announced that it's taking the
first steps towards building a massive offshore wind farm off
the coasts of New Jersey and New York. By 2030, this
facility is set to create enough energy to power 10 millions
homes and create a total of over 75,000 jobs, both directly
and indirectly. Sign the petition and tell the Biden
administration to do everything in its power to get offshore
wind farms up and running!
Thank you,
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Lauren
The Care2 Petitions Team
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P.S. Wind
energy would create jobs, decrease emissions, and advance the
U.S. in the global clean energy economy! Sign the petition. |
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