As extraction communities in California and Indigenous
communities both face ongoing oil spills and pollution, it’s
important that the state doesn’t rely on increasing domestic
production in order to reduce its use of Amazon crude. We need a
just and sustainable future that doesn’t involve fossil fuel
expansion at home or in the Amazon. The Stand community was founded
to protect forests.
During the Summit of the Americas, we put the Linked Fates of
California and the Amazon on the forefront, and now we must build
on this progress by pushing for policy change. We must call for
stronger policies to end U.S. and California's complicity in new
oil drilling in the Amazon once and for all.
It's killing us, the animals, and the planet.
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