Tim Canova is running for Florida’s 23rd congressional district on a platform of WWII-scale mobilization against climate change, and net zero national emissions by 2025.

In a tight Democratic congressional primary race between the incumbent Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chair of the Democratic National Committee, and Tim Canova, a professor of law and longtime populist champion, Canova has won the endorsement of The Climate Mobilization, a growing grassroots advocacy group calling for a national effort against climate change on the scale of America’s economic mobilization during World II.

The primary election for Florida’s 23rd congressional district will be held on Tuesday, August 30.

Like Bernie Sanders, Tim has tapped into voters’ massive dissatisfaction with the status quo, leading an insurgent campaign that has captured the country’s attention.

Going beyond Senator Sanders on climate change, Tim has adopted an environmental platform that meets the historic challenge of the climate emergency by calling for a wartime-scale national effort to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.

Watch Tim's call for a WWII-scale Climate Mobilization here:

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Tim signed the The Climate Mobilization’s Pledge to Mobilize in March 2016, but he has been championing large-scale action against climate change for years. And he knows the importance of emergency action on the scale of WWII – rising seawaters already threaten his district in South Florida.

“We already see the erosion of our seawalls, corrosion of critical infrastructure, and salt water intruding into the aquifers we rely on for our drinking water,” Canova said in a campaign video.

The Climate Mobilization’s endorsement of Canova came after the Democratic National Committee voted last month to adopt an amendment calling for WWII-scale climate mobilization into the Democratic party’s national platform, which was introduced by climate activist Russell Greene.

“We know that when Tim gets into office he’ll work as hard as he possibly can to make Russell Greene’s WWII-scale climate mobilization amendment to the Democratic Party's national platform a reality,” wrote The Climate Mobilization’s co-founders Margaret Klein Salamon and Ezra Silk in a statement. “That’s why we are so thrilled to endorse his bid for the House.”

“In an era of catastrophic gradualism and lethal cowardice, Tim has taken a tremendously courageous stand for climate truth and justice. If we are going to have a future, we will need hundreds of principled politicians like Tim Canova in Congress fighting for the WWII-scale climate mobilization required to save civilization and the natural world. We want to see him leading the charge in Congress.”

Canova’s climate change platform reads: