More than ever we are facing a climate crisis on our beautiful home we call Earth. The past three years have recorded record temperatures and 2017 is already on track to set a new record. Sea levels are rising and the Arctic circle is melting faster than normal. And all of this is corresponding with increasing greenhouse gas emissions. It is clearer than ever, that our climate crisis must be a top priority if the not the most important.

If we choose to delay fixing this problem, even just five years, we will face drastic consequences. Long droughts, connected to the climate crisis. in Syria, have caused worsened tensions there as pointed out by the documentary “Age of Consequences.” The Climate Crisis is expected to cause water stress to 500–750 million people in Bangladesh by 2020. This increasing threat could force mass migration that would only intensify internal conflicts. The Climate Crisis must be solved now or these problems will only increase.

That is why we need to make fixing the climate crisis a non-partisan issue and its solution appeasing to all sides of the isle. Especially now with a Republican controlled central government, we can not afford to keep it partisan. And I believe we have the perfect solution to this. A Green Libertarian movement!

I am a proud member of the United States Green Party, but am just as strong of believer in a free market based economy. I believe one hundred percent, that our failure for the market to be sustainable is from bad regulation. We live in an world where we tax income, but avoid taxing externalities, like emissions. We live in a world, where corporations can pay off politicians and media to hide the true facts. We live in a world where US fossil fuel subsidies would rank 93rd out of 191 in the world by GDP, per the IMF. This is not a free market, but a market rigged to protect and incentivize fossil fuel companies.

We do not need more regulations to fix climate change, we need to remove the barriers to the marketing fixing it. We need to implement a revenue neutral carbon tax to tax emissions, while incentivizing manual labor by cutting income taxes. We need to stop allowing corporations to pay politicians enough to sway their allegiance. We need to remove all energy subsidies, so its a fair playing field. We need to fix our economy, if we are to fix our planet.

So join with me and countless others and ask your politicians to fix the system! Divest your money and show corporations the true power of the free market! Stop letting corporations, get away with rigging the system for the 1% and blow the whistle on them! Protect our Earth and Economy!