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Orozco, Norma From: Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 6:58 AM To: eComment Cc: ' Subject: Submitting comments to City Council this evening Attachments: HR 763 fact sheet.pdf; Economists Statement on Carbon Dividends- 1-17-19.pdf; Yale - Climate -Opinions - CA46.pdf; Dividends -Local economic stimulus.docx Norma Mitre, Acting Clerk of the Council, We constituents, members of the local chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby, wish to speak our comments on agenda item 85B. We would appreciate being called to speak consecutively. • Virginia Bernal, myself • Suman Bhasin • Kayleigh Levitt Below my note are my comments, which I plan to deliver this evening. We wish to present the four attached one -page documents to the Council. Shall we bring paper copies of these? Or do you prefer to copy and distribute ahead to the members? • H.R. 763 Fact sheet • Climate opinions —Yale Project on Climate Change Communication • Economists' Statement on Carbon Dividends • The Dividend —Local economic stimulus Thank you. Virginia Bernal We address our comments to agenda item 85B that the council is considering tonight. We request that the council seriously consider a city resolution asking that our US Congress pass the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, H.R. 763. Santa Ana's climate action plan of 2015 is evidence of the city council's vision, yet its full implementation has been difficult to fund. Federal enactment of H.R. 763 would ease the city's task. As important as local action is, we still need national action because climate change is a global phenomenon. I have been a resident of Santa Ana 41 years, where I have raised my two sons. I now have three grandchildren. I am an immigrant and naturalized citizen. The future climate extremes and consequent social disruption for our young people concerns me very much, as does that of our country and of my countries of origin. We are already experiencing unusual and extreme weather events. Our own climate experts and those of the Inter -governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warn us of increasing and catastrophic risk if we do not reduce our emissions to net zero by 2050. Economists of the highest caliber recommend a policy of carbon fee and dividend as the most effective to reduce GHG emissions. Over a hundred municipalities around the country passed resolutions asking Congress to transition our country to clean energy via this policy which is now incorporated in the Energy Innovation Act. Even our California legislators did so in 2016, with Assembly Joint Resolution No. 43—Relative to greenhouse gases. 0