{YOUR ADDRESS}

 

 

{NAME OF LOCAL MP} MP

House of Commons

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{DATE}

 

Dear {NAME OF LOCAL MP} MP

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My family and I are residents of {TOWN/CITY/LOCATION} within your constituency and we are writing to you as our local Member of Parliament. 

 

We are writing to ask you to call for much greater and more urgent action to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions in real terms by 2030.

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We believe we are witnessing the early effects of climate change now, locally, nationally and globally. This year was another record breaking dry hot summer for most of us in the UK where there was no rainfall of significance for 3 months, significantly affecting local farmers and growers locally. Also nationally and globally we are witnessing clear signs of climate change on a regular basis. It is therefore extremely difficult to ignore the scientific consensus that without drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the next 10 years, the children and grand children of our own families will face climate catastrophe unless we act now, urgently and decisively.

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We are not climate scientists, but even from a very basic reading of the current scientific consensus we are left in no doubt that significant action needs to be taken in the next 10 years if our childrens' generation, and all that follow, are to avoid having to survive a climate catastrophe.

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{SAY WHAT HAS MOVED YOU TO WRITE }

{eg CONCERN FOR YOUR CHILDREN  AND GRANDCHILDREN'S GENERATIONS}

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{EXPLAIN WHY YOU THINK MORE ACTION IS NEEDED}

{IDEALLY FRAME THIS USING POSITIVE ACTION THAT IS ALREADY IN PROGRESS}

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{eg THE GOVERNMENTS UK ZERO CARBON STRATEGY - A GOOD START BUT MUCH MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE} 

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{eg THE SUCCESS OF UK OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY  - WHICH NEEDS TO BE SCALED UP AS IT IS NOW THE CHEAPEST WAY TO PRODUCE OUR OWN ENERGY}

 

 

We will be using our votes in all forthcoming elections to support candidates and main political parties who's election manifestos are fundamentally underpinned by commitments and detailed proposals to cut greenhouse gas emissions drastically in real terms within the next 10 years. We are also encouraging everyone we know to do the same.

 

If you will call for much greater and more urgent action to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions in real terms by 2030, please let us know. If not, please let us know the reason why now that it is written absolutely clearly in the science for all to see: that if we do not act swiftly and decisively in the next few years our generation will be responsible for the most extraordinary crime in human history – inflicting untold harm on our own children, grandchildren and all future generations. Surely we cannot allow this to happen.

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Thank you and we look forward to hearing back from you.

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Yours Sincerely,

 

{YOUR NAME}