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Dear Editor:
#WeCanSolveThis! The Engineer in me, as well as the lover of life and all the awesome people adores that practical rallying cry for climate solutions – WE CAN SOLVE IT. We do need to get to speed and scale with POLITICAL WILL AND DETERMINATION. As McKibben says, “Winning slowly is the same as losing.” We must take action before the climate impact is irreversible. A person fleeing the Santa Rosa fires in October 2017 said “It was like being chased by hell.”
Senator McGuire voted for SB 1383, weakening methane limits. Methane is over 80 times more dangerous than CO2. He also abstained on farm worker overtime, limiting open carry, and protecting immigrants with minor drug offenses from deportation.
I created a California Good Jobs, Housing & Climate Plan for multi-solving our challenges all at the same time with systems thinking. A Climate Change Major Disaster Declaration could be a big step for getting additional Federal and State funds so we can get ahead of wildfire preparedness and other needed resiliency work. I can’t do it alone. I need your help: your vote, and ideally your efforts ongoing. Let’s create the California we want, and the future we and our young people need!
RoniJacobi.com 707-575-5594 landline
Veronica “Roni” Jacobi, Candidate for CA State Senate, District 2