welcome everyone to citizens climate
Lobby climate advocate training lesson
number two my name is Amy Bennett and I
am director of operations with citizens
climate Lobby and I'm out in California
but first up tonight Brett's gonna give
us an overview of what we've covered so
far
Brett excellent thanks and welcome back
everyone as Amy mentioned my name is
Brett cease I'm down here in Dallas
Texas as the director of volunteer
education engagement for CCL also
helping our third coast regional
coordination and as many of you probably
already know we reviewed the intro call
last week as well as the webinar for
climate advocate training part 1 if you
haven't had a chance to do that yet we
recommend that you jump on and follow
this pathway whenever you can you can
find that recording on the intro by
going to our website and then clicking
on that magnifying glass in the upper
right and then typing an intro call in
the text box by that arrow on the
interval call like we reviewed on the
prior webinar we discussed the founding
and history of citizens climate Lobby
and then we talked about how CCI works
to create political will and how our
fundamental perspective is that
politicians respond to political will
rather than creating it themselves
finally we described our legislative
proposal carbon fee and dividend which
we believe will address climate change
in the most rapid comprehensive and
equitable manner as the best first step
for addressing climate change then on
the lesson1 climate advocate training
call we covered CCS organization and
structure how citizens create political
will and the tools that we use to create
and include political will with our
laser talks this lesson for lesson
number two will cover three other topics
CCL is methodology finding common ground
and building relationships we'll talk
about discussing an example of how this
methodology worked two great political
will in the real world and then we'll
close with the reasoning for a revenue
neutral price on carbon and how carbon
fee and dividend works I'll pass it back
over to you Amy thanks Brett so if
you've listened to the intro call or
lesson number one of this series you've
probably picked up on bits and pieces of
our core values we
discussed how showing respect and
appreciate appreciation for all even
those who oppose us we've talked about
Gandhi we've discussed how we should
always be striving to look for the best
in others and from day one citizens
climate Lobby is an organization that is
folk that is focused on what we are in
favor of not what we're against tonight
we'll explain a citizens climate Lobby
concept looking for common ground
because finding common ground is key to
any long term relationship and long term
relationships are what CCL is all about
building long term relationships with
members of Congress and their staff is
critical for our success here's the good
news we're absolutely convinced that we
can find some common ground with anyone
when we look for common ground we start
in three places we look for shared
values we look for social connections
and we look for places we care about
regarding shared values it can start on
the most simple level if you have kids
and consider that most members of
Congress have children and are concerned
for their future as well although most
staffers don't have kids maybe you can
connect with them as a future parent so
during meeting introductions mention
your kids or your grandkids and Brett
we'll take it from here
great thanks Amy other examples of
shared values include anything from
one's religious beliefs to general
outlook for a safe and prosperous future
energy independence freedom of choice
it's always productive to find where you
overlap with common values and when you
and a member of Congress or their staff
find them in that background make sure
to keep emphasizing the connection in
your interactions see Ciel's legislative
proposal carbon fee and dividend
embraces a lot of conservative
Republican values so if you're with a
meeting with a conservative member of
Congress then make a connection between
yourself and their conservative values
and carbon fee and dividend during your
introduction here's one quick example
after five years of building
relationship with their member of
Congress in Texas who found that their
member told them about the common ground
they had was this we all agree that
efforts to reduce emissions should work
hand in hand with economic well-being
along with that member
confidence that the US should continue
to lead emissions reductions by seeking
cleaner air through American technology
and innovation without sacrificing
affordable energy or middle class jobs
on that point of social connections we
learn about the people we meet with in
advance so for members of Congress we
find out about any of their former jobs
schools clubs interests however we want
to make sure that you also have the
space to ask for that information in the
meeting so that we can collect it and
build that relationship for future as
well quick example in meetings with a
congressional aide you know we usually
start by briefly introducing ourselves
and after we're done we want to make
sure to also say you know you've heard a
little bit about us can you now tell us
a little bit about yourself you know
your hometown where you went to school
how you ended up in DC with congressman
Jones you know also can you help us
understand your role in this office on
energy policy and I think the key thing
is to highlight this isn't just being
polite these are real things that we
want to know and if there's a hometown
or college connection with somebody on
our Lobby team you better be sure we're
going to make that connection and that's
how you build a long-term relationship
and relaxes the people we meet with as
well it gets them talking about
themselves instead of feeling lecture
net lastly as Amy mentioned common
ground can also literally be a patch of
ground on this earth our turf a place
that we love that we know the member of
Congress or staffer loves we found that
no matter who we talk to no matter who
on a meeting with people love their home
community and this larger world
passionately so in a little bit we'll
actually jump into an exercise to get us
all to think about how using our own
stories and experiences as a basis for
common ground and build that but first
Amy's going to share a specific story
that highlights how one local CCL group
began a relationship with their
congresswoman putting the framework
we've just described into action thank
you brett when congresswoman Mia love
first met with citizens climate Lobby
volunteers in her Utah district as a
candidate for the house she was not
supportive of citizens climate Lobby
pitch
but they were truck with her listening
ability and her impressive job of
steering the conversation to areas of
agreement her love of running her
appreciation for the outdoors trail
access and air quality over the next
half year the same local citizens
climate Lobby volunteers began to build
essential relationships with
representative Mia loves environmental
Aid and other staffers sharing their
appreciation for the congresswoman's
work stopping by to share constituent
comments about climate action inviting
them to climate change related events
happening in their district and even
having them over for a potluck while
getting to know them personally when
representative love held her first
public Town Hall in the district eight
CCL volunteers attended and asked her
questions on climate change even though
during the meeting
representative loved deflect deflected
off-topic off the topic of climate
change the volunteers stuck around to
stack chairs after the event to deepen
their connection with the staffers and
walked out after everything was put away
and walked out with a congresswoman
herself where she talked about wanting
to do more work with citizens climate
Lobby group the group continued to meet
with the office every CCL Lobby day in
Washington DC and helped find experts
from both in district and in DC that
were trusted sources of information for
their conservative representative this
encouraged representative loved to host
a town hall meeting on the topic of
climate change in order to learn more
about it and to hear from her
constituents on the issue the Utah Town
Hall was a positive informative
solutions oriented discussion and even
featured the National Geographic years
of living dangerously TV program at
every step of the way the group made it
clear that they wanted to work together
with representative love to which she
shared their approach not only changed
my mind about involvement but really
changed my heart about what we should be
doing and this really is the value of
appreciation thank you Amy
we use it to begin our meetings or
letters to the editor but it's not just
a kickoff device
we work to keep appreciation in our mind
throughout our interactions and it's
important because some people will have
a predisposed view of us like we do of
them and so asking ourselves to
appreciate them not only changes their
view of us but also takes that chip off
of our own shoulder this is basic human
psychology that we each can work on it
helps us to remove our own biases and to
see that other person as someone that we
want to work with instead of seeing them
as an obstacle as representative loves
example highlights in this approach puts
us in a generous place that allows us to
seek understanding and build out that
common ground when we sincerely show
appreciation one of the things you'll
notice is a change in body language of
the other person they might open up when
they see that you didn't come to shake
your fist at them
representative love has not only come
out with our own op-ed that's titled we
can find climate solutions and still
have a thriving economy but she's even
begun to actively mail her own
constituents about climate solutions and
the importance of all members of
Congress to take action to address
climate change so this is our one rule
if you remember one thing from this
webinar we hope it's this treat everyone
even those who disagree with us with
respect appreciation and gratitude and
for a more full story about the
evolution of Representative loves
transformation go online to the years of
living dangerously webpage and look for
laying the groundwork for love and I'll
pass it back over to you Amy
thanks Brett next we're going to do an
exercise about finding common ground and
developing your story in an interview
with the New York Times in 1969 EB white
the author of Charlotte's Web among
other books said every morning I wake up
torn batik between the desire to save
the world and the inclination to savor
it this makes it hard to plan the day
and if we forget to savor the world what
possible reason do we have for saving it
in a way the savoring must come first
let me repeat that last part if we
forget to savor the world what possible
reason do we have for say
I think you can all identify with this
sediment in the exercise that we'll be
doing in just a minute we'll ask you to
identify a specific place that you love
that's threatened to be negatively
impacted by climate change not the beach
and not a place that's threatened by
other environmental factors like
overdevelopment or toxic pollution if
it's in your hometown and congressional
district all the better to help
establish common ground and the reason
that we ask this is that social science
research has shown people connect much
more strongly with their own backyard
and concerns for their own community
than far-off impacts so think about what
your place looks and sounds like and try
to paint a picture of what that's like
using as descriptive the imagery as you
can using rich language tell us about
how that place feels and help us really
understand what your place is like you
know this exercise is a way to begin
developing a story that you can share
with others stories are very powerful
means perhaps the most powerful of
connecting with people and the more
prepared we are to share our own story
and make that personal connection the
more likely we are to impact an
influence change these stories are also
a way for us to humanize climate change
to make it part of our own stories and
help those around us deepen their
concern for care taken given not only
the common ground we share for the
natural world but the common economic
livelihood that is backed up by that
natural world so let me give you a
specific example for my own life and
then what we're gonna ask actually ask
you to do is think about an example of
your own that you can share and while
I'm sharing feel free to start writing
down notes of your own place so I came
into climate advocacy by way of seven
years of wilderness instruction in the
Boundary Waters northern Minnesota under
the tall towering newest white pine of
the aurora borealis
there's expansive cool crystal blue lake
waters and haunting cry of loons I also
attended my first regional citizens
climate Lobby conference and heard the
lead Minnesota forestry researcher
professor sure that his studies were
highlighting that that same great boreal
woods were treating northwards
towards Hudson Bay at a rate that
averaged out to be roughly 10 feet each
day doing that math we realized in that
seminar that business's usual greenhouse
emissions would mean that this wholly
special northern border country of moose
and pine why lion timber wolf would give
way to landscapes more akin to scrub oak
savannah and that that would not only
negative impact the personal growth and
transformation of the lives that I saw
in the youth I took out on paddle trips
but would also have repercussions for
local guiding fishing hunting tourist
base economies throughout the northern
part of the state that many people
depended on and so we'd like you to ask
and think about what you savor and how
you could share that story as well think
about your own connection to your
special place and the climate impacts it
faces if possible tie in the potential
impacts of local economies that your
community faces as well reduced worker
or agricultural productivity extreme
heat inland flooding disease vector
expansion seafood yields there are so
many ways to make your story personal
and connected to common concerns like
the natural world and economic
well-being I will say that being able to
verbalize and say what you savor or what
you're for can really be the basis more
productive dialogue based on personal
experience to be able to demonstrate to
others that you share common ground and
that you are for something is more
powerful way of creating political will
than to be against something this is an
important distinction because citizens
climate Lobby is not fighting against
any industry or the oil and gas
companies rather what we are for is a
market-based approach to reducing and
managing greenhouse gas emissions and it
closed this first part of the webinar
I'll pass it back to you Amy well let's
talk about how all of these things
showing respect and appreciation looking
for the best in others being for
something and finding common ground help
us build relationships here's a powerful
case study example of building a
relationship with members of Congress
that's led to political will that was
featured just as last May in the New
York Times here's a photo of Jay Butera
Jays work to address climate change for
more than a decade and has been a
volunteer with citizens climate Lobby
since 2012 in 2013 he met with
representative Ted Deutsch a Florida
Democrat whose district was experiencing
the effects of global warming Jay
mentioned that he had a vision to create
a bipartisan caucus in the House of
Representatives that would focus on
climate solution Deutsch liked the idea
and agreed to work with him and citizens
climate Lobby towards that goal and I
quote the kind of meaningful
conversation that was taking place in
boardrooms and local governments
unfortunately had not really taken place
in Congress
Deutsch told Jay and so Jay started
visiting offices on Capitol Hill in an
effort to get Republicans and Democrats
to sit down together at the time it
seemed like a fool's errand he said
people would laugh and say good luck
with that the word climate was
unmentionable Jay and Deutsch then
devised a two-by-two approach the caucus
would grow by twos to keep a quality of
numbers between Republicans and
Democrats
many Democrats were interested the
question was how to get Republicans to
join so Jay reason the first movers were
likely to come from Florida the coastal
districts are mainly Republican and the
coastline is threatened existentially by
climate impacts he said so Jay flew to
Miami and he attended events in southern
Florida that focused on climate change
and there he met locals and helped them
start a citizens climate Lobby chapter I
saw mayors and county leaders were
dealing with the impacts of climate
change head-on he said some towns had
raised roads and moved what Wells miles
inland to escape sea water intrusion in
other places sea water poured into the
streets at every high tide Jay
discovered that Congress members in
Washington were disconnected with the
reality on the ground and so for the
next two years Jay and many other
organizations volunteers work to address
that disconnect Jay organized countless
meetings in Florida and Washington
he took video and photographs of climate
effects and shared them with
congressional offices and he and others
reached out to get 55 local leaders
including mayor's County Commissioners
presidents of chambers of commerce state
legislators and university presidents
throughout South Florida most of them
from Republican held to congressional
districts and asked them to sign a
letter asking Congress to act on climate
change it made a difference it led
directly to the formation of a
Republican introduced House Resolution
195 that you see here that has been
reintroduced this Congress as well as
highlighting that Republicans can and
must take meaningful and responsible
action on climate change additionally
one of those first Republicans to step
forward for the climate resolution was
Representative Carlos Cabello and in
February 2016
he joined represent of Dutch and as
co-chairs formed the first ever
bipartisan climate solutions caucus a
bipartisan group in the US House of
Representatives which is exploring
policy options now that address the
impacts causes and challenges of our
change in climate and today the caucus
has 50 members 25 from each party and it
will continue to serve as an
organization to educate members on the
economically viable options to reduce
our climate risk what Jay and the rest
of the Floridians did is a perfect
example of how demonstrating respect and
appreciation for others even those who
we think oppose us finding common ground
and building relationship leads to
political will they met with their
Congress members and impe appealed to
what was best in them they created
political will locally and allowed these
members of Congress to respond to it and
now breaths gonna talk about how we
begin to plan for a meeting with our
members of Congress thank you Amy I
think this is a great time to promote
that all of what we're about to review
is available on CCL community and that
website is simply a community dot
citizens climate Lobby org that you see
there in the right hand side of the
screen and to find these materials you
go to that red highlighted section take
Action Center and then follow the
pathway to lobby Congress
and even though no two meetings are the
same the basic outline that we're about
to follow really is so prior to the
meeting what we do is research on our
member and their district you know we
learn what they're really proud of what
they like and what they're really
accomplished with learn what annoys them
so they will know not what to bring up
research local impacts of climate change
and learn how fee and dividend will
impact their state or district we'll
also make sure to review previous
meeting minutes and then determine ahead
of time who will be responsible for
following up with those action items
that we agree to in the meeting lastly
we make sure to assign specific roles to
specific volunteers and these can
encompass anything from being a leader
to the time keeper to being the
note-taker or the main person that asks
our proposal and we meet in teams of
four to six citizens climate Lobby
members our basic meeting outline goes
as follows we thank the member or
staffer for meeting with us the time
keeper asks how much time do you have
for this meeting we introduce ourselves
briefly if we're meeting with a staffer
then we ask them to tell us a little bit
about themselves we show appreciation
for something they've done recently
something you can sincerely appreciate
it doesn't have to be about climate or
the environment we briefly explain our
purpose to create the political will for
a livable world and briefly state our
requests to support or introduce
legislation that puts a fee on carbon
based fuels and returns the net revenue
to American households then we mentioned
that we have more to say on that but
first we'd like to discuss your concerns
so listening and discussion here are
some possible questions you could ask to
further the discussion but be flexible
based on your relationship
for instance rather rather than reacting
to their answer it's most important to
help them feel heard you might ask the
Congress member or staffer what might be
preventing the representative from
supporting our legislation or who in our
district would we need to convince about
the merits of our proposal to win your
support or what's your preferred plan to
low
emissions having done your research
you'll probably be able to anticipate
what you think their responses might be
finally we want to make sure to deliver
our ask so if they've already indicated
that they're not ready to introduce or
support our policy we also want to make
sure to introduce a secondary request as
a building block again moving them up
the ladder of engagement on the policy
we want to make sure that we're offering
additional materials and ask if they'd
like them via hardcopy or electronically
and then ask how and when we should
follow up we want to make sure we're
always finding out who they like to work
with across the aisle and then we want
to make sure to end on time and to thank
them for their time and that's really
the overview of how we conduct a meeting
with a congressional office and though
we don't have time tonight we actually
encourage everyone to seek out this
opportunity with their group and
practice in person as well as to look
this up online if you go to citizens
climate universities Lobby 301 and 401
lessons highlighted here on the screen
you can actually see what this outline
looks like in action as a couple of
teams actually practice these points
with a couple of actual simulated run
throughs prior to the meeting it's
really important that we make sure that
everyone does have a team practice
before meetings and as you can see
there's more detailed training and
lobbying on the Learning Center in
community all right so we have one more
thing to cover and that's CC Elle's
legislative proposal it's called carbon
fee and dividend and you've heard us say
that citizens climate Lobby is betting
the farm on a market-based solution so
what exactly does that mean let's start
with a quick review of where today the
price we consumers pay for fossil fuels
is artificially low and this is due to a
variety of factors from before
production fossil fuel producers
receiving discounted leases on public
lands and offshore drilling and then
during production
fossil fuel producers receiving
subsidies special tax breaks and eminent
domain for pipelines again keeping in
mind that for the majority of our
country's history we wanted to
incentivize and develop these fuel
sources to boost our economic growth and
then after production the price we pay
for fossil fuels doesn't also include
some huge hidden costs and these hidden
costs are
as externalities by economists some of
them include the US military it spent
trillions of dollars protecting our
energy supply lines historically across
all the world health costs and concerns
the use of coal increases health care
costs 300 to 500 billion dollars a year
according to some estimates and then of
course there are environmental costs and
climate costs that are associated with
adapting to and mitigating the effects
of changing climate system and again
these costs will rise and become more
expensive the longer we put off acting
on them so if a market price for any
product to not just fossil fuels doesn't
or include its real costs economists
have a term for that they call it a
market failure and global warming has
been called by some to be the greatest
market failure in the history of
capitalism
eken economists say that the best first
step then to correcting a market failure
is to hold a product accountable for its
costs and this is the good news with
fossil fuels this means moving these
hidden costs that we discussed earlier
you know from military environmental
health care climate concerns back on the
front end of those balance sheets the
idea of putting a price on carbon is
really simple then we want to add the
cost of doing business
in those resources because we want to
reveal the hidden costs that no one's
taking responsibility for it present
getting the price right means making the
market tell the truth and that means
ordinary people like you and me
consumers small businesses taxpayers
will recover that market leverage that
we're supposed to have to determine
whether we do something that is too
costly or not in citizens climate Lobby
we emphasize that with all costs fully
accounted for then we let fossil fuels
compete with other forms of energy in
the marketplace and when consumers
realize the true cost of burning fossil
fuels they will make a more informed and
better decision leading to a clean
energy economy
I'll pass it back over to you Amy to go
over several policy options right now
that we do or that are available to
manage gas emissions well there are
really four basic options
that are important to understand at the
key differences between them it's also
important to note that each of these
options will work however each varies in
terms of the levels of enforcement's the
costs and the winners and losers from
the policy first policy is regulation
Strait regulation has been the most
heavily used way to tackle our emissions
reductions it's historically prevalent
because when we see the negative impact
from routine behavior it's been logical
for some public authority to take action
and to make sure that that activity does
not harm others in a strict regulatory
scenario you need people with salaries
monitoring the behavior of emitters this
tends to get expensive and as evidenced
by the current administration it can be
undercut by underfunding overall it's
most useful we're less intrusive options
are just not available or don't work
next there's tap and trade it sets a cap
or a maximum for total emissions and
sells permits for the right to pollute
up to that cap it allows for the trading
of permits and this approach is what
Congress voted on in the house and
approved back in 2009 cap and trade
creates a regulation enforced by the
trading of artificial assets the permits
it can help reduce emissions but it's
complex creates uncertainty uncertainty
or volatility in the marketplace and
requires new regulatory mechanisms both
for the cap and for the trading market
and is usually narrower in scope for
example it covers less total emissions
than a more straightforward carbon tax
great so like we mentioned earlier taxes
begin to account for the cost of
something that generates hidden costs so
that the tax eliminates market
distortions and allows enterprise to go
to work so with a carbon tax instead of
requiring regulation to get bad behavior
under control a straight-up tax operates
on the assumption that if consumers
understand the true costs then the harm
will be eliminated by putting economic
pressure on suppliers to reduce that
harm think of examples like cigarettes
or alcohol
and one of the problems with a straight
carbon tax however is that it is
designed to pressure consumers to reduce
consumption which then in turn can
constrain overall economic activity to
understand this the Congressional Budget
Office has looked at some carbon taxes
before and one of their analyses the CBO
says that carbon taxes are a drag on the
economy the Congressional Budget Office
tells Congress that a $10 per ton carbon
tax on co2 emissions for example would
raise about 55 billion dollars in
federal revenue annually raised gas
prices about 10 cents a gallon raised
electricity prices about a penny per
kilowatt hour it would slow job and GDP
growth while still cutting carbon
dioxide emissions very little so overall
it's clear that a poorly designed carbon
tax can have a negative impact on the
economy however and that's a big however
there's a final option available that
citizens climate Lobby is advocating for
and that's carbon fee and dividend and
to overcome the constraint on economic
activity that would result from a
straight-up carbon tax while still
reducing the harm caused by burning
fossil fuels CCL proposes carbon fee and
dividend which we like to think of as a
three-legged policy first the fee and
dividend it places a steadily rising fee
on all carbon emitting fuels as upstream
as possible so at the source of the
wellhead the mine the port of entry the
pipeline wherever that fuel is first
introduced into the economy and this is
greatly minimizing the amount assess
such a fee which would start at $15 a
tonne annually and increase by $10 a
year thereafter.Then the second leg--100% of net revenues are then returned directly to
households in a monthly dividend check
with half shares to children up to 2 per
households the dividend return would be
simple to administer and is estimated to
protect at least two-thirds of consumers
from rising energy costs and related
cost of good increases lastly as we
discussed in the first climate advocate
training class we propose a border
adjustment so that goods produced in the
US then are also treated the same as
goods produced
in foreign countries getting that border
adjustment is crucial because it ensures
that domestic manufacturers have no
incentive to move operations to a
country that doesn't have an equivalent
price on carbon and that if other
countries want to keep using dirty
manufacturing processes they'll have to
pay the American people for that
privilege
our legal trade law team also assures us
that there are in fact two provisions
that make it clear carbon Fein dividend
would be compliant with the WTO so in a
quick review the in dividend requires no
new spending no new bureaucracy no new
regulation and it allows the Main Street
economy to keep chugging along and even
expand while sending a direct price
signal to investors that the smart path
for future investing is moving towards
low-carbon energy sources a clean fee
and dividend plan allows even the energy
sector to transition investments
cost-effectively so we see economic gain
not harm I should point out that revenue
neutrality returning the net revenues to
American households is also politically
important we desperately need Republican
leadership on climate most Republican
members of Congress signed a pledge not
to support any net tax increase
politically revenue neutrality means
Republicans can vote for citizens
climate Lobby carbon fee and dividend
without violating their pledge and now
Brett's going to talk a little bit more
about the Congressional Budget Office or
the CBO great so let's wrap this up by
thinking about what when the
Congressional Budget Office's economic
analysis of carbon fee and dividend look
like well we don't know yet because we
haven't had it scored but from our REME
report we see that all of their
yardsticks would flip from negative to
positive
I mentioned Remmy chosen for its track
record of providing analysis to both
government bodies and fossil fuel
corporations Remmy which stands for
regional economic modeling incorporated
had an analysis that concluded that
instead of being a drag on the economy
such a system would actually have strong
economic effects on the nation's health
and prosperity alike so instead of
slowing job growth the jobs would
actually grow faster
over 20 years CCR's proposal will
generate an extra 2.8 million American
jobs instead of slowing GDP growth GDP
growth would also accelerate faster over
20 years an extra 1.3 trillion is
anticipated in GDP growth and then no
matter how high that carbon feed goes
most consumers would see no net increase
in their energy costs and that's because
the monthly dividend check would cover
or more than cover all of their rising
energy costs and that includes both
direct energy costs like gas electricity
as well as indirect energy costs to
produce goods and services that are
carbon intensive finally with carbon fee
and dividend instead of a modest cut in
carbon dioxide emissions by 2035
emissions would be cut in half
in other words citizen climate Lobby
solution matches the scale and the
timing of the problem that we face
putting us on a path to reduce our
carbon dioxide emissions by 80% based on
1990 levels by mid-century and so Mark
Twain said the difference between the
right word and the almost right word is
the difference between lightning and a
lightning bug and this webinars takeaway
is this there's a big difference between
a carbon tax and a carbon tax that's
revenue neutral words matter I know
that's a lot of information we covered
in a short amount of time but we have
plenty of resources available on our
website and you can find them on our our
climate solutions tab that's highlighted
there in red you can also visit our
Learning Center on our sister websites
CCL community and find all sorts of
lessons not only a review of the
introductory sequence but and the
expansive list of featured here devoted
to explaining carbon fee and dividend
and so for today's lesson we'd like to
close with an inspirational quote this
comes from Frances Hodgson Burnett who
wrote the secret garden at first people
refuse to believe that a strange new
thing can be done then they began to
hope it can be done and
then they see that it can be done and
then it is done and all the world
wonders why it was not so long before
and to close I just like to show this
chart we had climate Interactive's drew
drones on our International July call
and he shared this image from Bloomberg
media and said that social change looks
impossible until it's completed he
reminded us to think back in US history
about examples that are highlighted in
this chart from interracial marriage to
women's suffrage and for those years all
those movements that were building it
seemed as though nothing was happening
even when hundreds or thousands of
people work to advance their causes and
then suddenly something shifted and the
change happened he closed by saying this
it could be that were right on the cusp
of huge support for the kinds of actions
that were advocating for that will
really surprise us and this movement to
support a carbon fee and dividend could
be imminent if you've completed the
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you've also participated in climate one
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