<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">It is depressing to see the websites of statewide candidates make no mention of climate change. It is the most pressing existential threat to humanity and our children. <div><br></div><div>If you are running for public office please do everyone a favor and tell us what you are going to do about climate change. Stop worrying about how it is going to poll with voters, grow a backbone, and lead us. Please!<div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">John Meyer</span></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Executive Director & General Counsel <br class="">Cottonwood Environmental Law Center<br class=""><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1/1" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1/1" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">P.O. 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If you are not the intended recipient, you must delete this email and inform the sender of the error.<br class=""><br class="">Like what we're doing? <a href="http://www.cottonwoodlaw.org/#donate" class="">Click here</a> to donate. </span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jul 24, 2019, at 1:23 PM, Lance Olsen via Missoula-Community-News <<a href="mailto:missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org">missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">“</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">More frequent and intense extreme weather and climate-related events, as well as changes in average climate conditions, are expected to continue to damage infrastructure, ecosystems, and social systems that provide essential benefits to communities. Future climate change is expected to further disrupt many areas of life, exacerbating existing challenges to prosperity posed by aging and deteriorating infrastructure, stressed ecosystems, and economic inequality.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Communities, governments, and businesses are working to reduce risks from and costs associated with climate change by taking action to lower greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies. While mitigation and adaptation efforts have expanded substantially in the last four years, they do not yet approach the scale considered necessary to avoid substantial damages to the economy, environment, and human health over the coming decades.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">US Fourth National Climate Assessment</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><<<a href="https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); background-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/</span></a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0.1px 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">=======================================</div><div style="margin: 0.1px 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0.1px 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."</div><div style="margin: 0.1px 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div style="margin: 0.1px 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class="">Attributed to Benito Mussolini</i></div><div style="margin: 0.1px 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class="">=======================================</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Fascisti.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>n.plural. A body of Italian nationalists, organized March 1919, to oppose Bolshevism in Italy. Under the leadership of Benito Mussolini, it assumed control of the government in October 1922.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Fascism.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>n. The policy and practices of the fascisti. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">The doctrine imposes centralized authority, national registration, paternalism for industry and commerce, and press censorship; it opposes feminism, parliamentary government and democratic institutions.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Fascist.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>n. One of the fascisti.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language. 1938</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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