Reason 1: Clean energy and climate policies will create 2 million American jobs.
Reason 2: We can save more than it costs. Clean energy and climate policy will save American families an average of $900 a year by 2030.
Reason 3: The American agricultural industry could save more than $1 billion annually from energy efficiency.
Reason 4: American businesses are waiting to put a price on carbon that will give them the signal to unleash billions of dollars in investment in clean technology and innovation, create and preserve American jobs, and make America an economic leader for the 21st century.
Reason 5: Recent studies found that the gravest consequences of climate change could threaten to destabilize governments, intensify terrorist actions, and displace hundreds of millions of people due to increasingly frequent and severe natural disasters, higher incidences of diseases such as malaria, rising sea levels, and food and water shortages. More droughts, famines, and floods caused by climate change will lead to collapse of vulnerable countries and create more havens for terrorists.
Reason 6: Rising sea levels; the threat of floods; more extreme weather and other impacts are likely to displace hundreds of millions of people, putting more stress on already vulnerable countries.
Reason 7: No one has more at stake about the impacts of climate change than today’s youth. Right now, our young people’s future is threatened by increased conflict, drought, famine, rising seas, and more limited resources.
Reason 8: The U.S. should be the leader in clean energy. Not China, Denmark or Brazil. The country that leads in clean energy will lead the global economy for the 21st century.
Reason 9: Our National Parks – from the Rocky Mountains to the Everglades – are already being impacted by climate change, including melting glaciers, loss of wildlife, rising seas, stronger storms and intolerable heat.
Reason 10: Comprehensive climate and energy policies can save businesses nearly $130 billion a year by 2030.
Reason 11: The US Department of Agriculture says economic opportunities for farmers and ranchers can potentially outweigh the costs of climate legislation, especially over the long-term.
Reason 12: China is winning the clean energy race, spending around $9 billion a month on clean energy. We need to act now or we will lose the global clean energy race.
Reason 13: Due to the strong link between poverty and climate change, poor women across the globe feel the consequences of climate change disproportionally more.
Reason 14: America has an opportunity to be the world leader in clean technology – that will create millions of good jobs here in America. If the U.S. doesn’t act, it will be left behind by China, South Korea and other countries.
Reason 15: The Department of Defense, CIA, the CNA Corporation’s Military Advisory Board, four-star generals and security experts have declared that climate change is a significant national security threat and a potential destabilizing force.
Reason 16: Each dollar we spend on oil puts more money into the pockets of unfriendly regimes – like Iran – that supports terrorism and provides explosives that are used to attack our troops.
Reason 17: This Passover, Americans are commemorating the Parting of the Red Sea before it disappears due to global climate change.
Reason 18: Investing in clean energy technologies will help revive our country’s manufacturing sector by creating more than 850,000 good-paying jobs.
Reason 19: As young people face the highest unemployment rates in the nation, they would damage lung tissue and is especially harmful for those with asthma and other chronic lung diseases.
Reason 21: Through energy efficiency alone, we can save American households $1,050 a year by 2020 and $4,400 a year by 2030.
Reason 22: Pope Benedict, the Green Pope, emphasizes humanity's responsibility to care for the planet by embracing environmentally sound lifestyles.
Reason 23: MLB goes green! Green program to coordinate and support environmentally sound practices for each club.
Reason 24: According to the USDA, the offset returns project could provide farmers with an annual net return of about $1-2 billion a year from 2012-2018 and up to $20 billion per year in 2050.
Reason 25: Between 1998 and 2007, job growth in America’s clean energy sector was nearly 2.5 times as fast as overall job growth.
Reason 26: Large majorities of African-Americans believe climate change is a critical issue that everyone can help reduce.
Reason 27: A group of 2,500 businesses across the American economy agree that we need clean energy and climate solutions.
Reason 28: $1 billion a day that Americans send overseas on oil floods a global oil market.
Reason 29: The millennial generation will be the ones fighting the conflicts of the future if we don't solve the climate and energy problems now.
Reason 30: Climate change will lead to more infectious diseases -- like malaria and dengue fever; more pollution that causes asthma; and more deadly heat waves.
Reason 31: Rising gas prices means more of our income will go to gas companies. We need to invest in clean, renewable energy technology and more fuel-efficient cars.
Reason 32: We can cut our dependence on foreign oil in half by getting more domestic oil from enhanced oil recovery and carbon capture and storage.
Reason 33: Big Oil and other special interests are holding us back from a clean energy future by protecting their interests and keeping us tied to unfriendly regimes.
Reason 34: Clean energy and climate legislation will empower American farmers and ranchers to be a part of our nation's energy solutions, increasing business opportunities, creating good-paying local jobs, and revitalizing rural communities.
Reason 35: The United States imported around 4 million barrels of oil a day from dangerous or unstable countries in 2008 at a cost of about $150 billion and spends $1 billion a day on foreign oil that enriches hostile governments, funds terrorist organizations, and props up repressive regimes.
Reason 36: Consequences of climate change -- heat stress, droughts, flooding, and more extreme weather patterns -- are already costing farmers and ranchers critical crop yields and livestock productivity.
Reason 37: Our troops are put in harm’s way by having to safeguard oil sources in foreign countries— like Iraq and Saudi Arabia– that feed our oil addiction.
Reason 38: A national RES can save $64.3 billion in lower electricity and gas bills by 2025.
Reason 39: For 40 years, Americans have called for action to protect the planet. Now, we need the Senate to take action on climate and energy solutions that will create jobs, enhance our national security, and cut carbon pollution that causes climate change.
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