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To the Times:

It’s sad and ironic that our government was shut down for 34 days for a non-crisis, while the real crisis of climate change â€" 12 years to transform our economy to preserve a stable climate suitable for human civilization â€" has been ignored by our president.

We need a massive mobilization to make the changes we desperately need. The Green New Deal is about making that possible. The details are not written in stone, but this is an ambitious start that gives me hope that there will be a liveable planet when my grandchildren are born.

Carolyn McCoy, Philadelphia