'We will not go to our graves quietly knowing that the financial institutions in our own communities continue to fund the climate crisis,' said longtime environmentalist billmckibben.
Sierra Club executive director Ben Jealous warned that"the big banks feel beholden to an industry literally driving us toward human extinction."
"What we're asking these banks to do," said Jealous,"is to have the moral clarity to say to their clients, 'You cannot keep expanding into the Arctic, you cannot keep expanding into the Gulf, you cannot keep drilling in Africa and throughout the globe. Because what you're doing is putting our communities, our future, and the climate at risk.'","We must break the big banks' addiction to Big Oil.
In addition to symbolically destroying a fake credit card, many people cut up real cards taken from their wallets.to close their accounts and cut up their credit cards if the banks continue to fund fossil fuels," the group said."These pledges were sent in recent weeks to the bank CEOs and in-person at bank branches from Burlington to Cleveland, from Oakland to New York.
"This spring, we'll also be engaging with the banks' biggest shareholders in the lead-up to their annual meetings to support key climate votes," Cushing added."It's a critical moment to push the banks to stop the flow of money to new fossil fuel expansion, to stop greenwashing their emissions targets, and to end the burden of dirty energy on frontline communities."
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