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Tough Fights
RECEIVED Mon., Sept. 21, 2020
Dear Editor,
Serving in the military prepared me for tough fights, and we must come together right now to fight against climate change – one of the greatest national security threats facing our generation and those to come.
We’ve already seen areas like the Rio Grande Valley pummeled by 500-year floods that many families can’t recover from. But beyond Texas, climate change will create an unprecedented global crisis as devastating weather patterns – from unlivable droughts to toxic air quality and record floods – cause mass migrations. Regional conflicts over increasingly scarce resources are a near certainty, threatening stability across the globe.
We have to remember it will be our children and grandchildren bearing the weight of the climate crisis if we don’t act now. It’s a moral imperative to vote out climate deniers like John Cornyn, who’s made absurd comments like he hasn’t “drunk the Kool-Aid” on climate change and has voted against key environmental protections like the Clean Water Rule.
We need leaders who will listen to science, and we can’t wait a second longer. As a veteran, I know that MJ Hegar fits the bill. MJ will fight like all our children's futures depend on it, because they do.
Serving in the military prepared me for tough fights, and we must come together right now to fight against climate change – one of the greatest national security threats facing our generation and those to come.
We’ve already seen areas like the Rio Grande Valley pummeled by 500-year floods that many families can’t recover from. But beyond Texas, climate change will create an unprecedented global crisis as devastating weather patterns – from unlivable droughts to toxic air quality and record floods – cause mass migrations. Regional conflicts over increasingly scarce resources are a near certainty, threatening stability across the globe.
We have to remember it will be our children and grandchildren bearing the weight of the climate crisis if we don’t act now. It’s a moral imperative to vote out climate deniers like John Cornyn, who’s made absurd comments like he hasn’t “drunk the Kool-Aid” on climate change and has voted against key environmental protections like the Clean Water Rule.
We need leaders who will listen to science, and we can’t wait a second longer. As a veteran, I know that MJ Hegar fits the bill. MJ will fight like all our children's futures depend on it, because they do.
Jim Penniman-Morin, Former Captain, US Army