The climate crisis won’t wait for world leaders

The Paris climate talks led to what could be a step toward stabilizing the global climate crisis – if real action follows.

Now, what’s needed is a more vocal U.S. public to offset the clout of corporations holding on to the fossil fueled past.

North Carolina is crucial – as home to the nation’s largest polluting utility, Duke Energy.

NC WARN and allies are calling for Attorney General Roy Cooper to assert his constitutional authority – to require that Duke executives help slow global warming. Right now, Duke Energy is making it worse by expanding dirty fuels while blocking solar competition.

Cooper has stood up to Duke Energy in the past, and we need his leadership now.

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Time is short and climate change could become abrupt. Scientists now warn that sea level could rise 10 feet within 50 years unless we begin cutting global pollution immediately.

Solar power is now cheaper than coal, nuclear and gas – when all costs are counted. But Duke Energy is holding back renewables – while pushing toward a fracking gas future that’s increasing climate change due to methane leakage.

So the climate struggle is about more than saving energy at home. We need more people in the game – asserting public control over corporate polluters and government officials.

Jim Warren
Executive Director
NC WARN

The climate crisis won’t wait for world leaders

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