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The Goals of the Sierra Club's Climate Recovery Partnership
For more than a century, we have depended on fossil fuels to run our factories, power our cars and trucks, and heat
and cool our homes. Now we are facing the consequences. Six of the last eight years were the hottest on record. Polar
ice and glaciers are disappearing, sea levels are rising, coral reefs are suffering, plant and animal species are disappearing.
And the wilderness areas and wildlife that the Sierra Club has worked so effectively to protect
for more than a century are being threatened and lost.
But we have the means to reverse global warming and create a clean, renewable energy future. Working with some of the
world's top climate scientists, engineers, and energy experts, the Sierra Club has developed a Climate Recovery Agenda -- a set of initiatives
that will help cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, create a clean-energy economy,
and protect our natural heritage, communities, and country from the consequences of global warming.