The National Emergency Joint Session of Congress!

Declare a National Climate and Ecological Emergency at a "For the Sake of Our Children" National Emergency Joint Session of Congress that you convene, using your power under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution.
There on a large, wide-screen TV, nationally televised, nationally and internationally streamed, and on-radio, Congress and the public at home and work will see various forwardable videos showing we're already in these interlinked climate, pollution and biodiversity emergencies.
They'll also see up close and personal videos of mostly Republicans but some Democrats and independents who used to not believe we're in any of these emergencies, let alone that they threaten their children, but who now know better --- while their Representative and Senators still don't, at least not until after this National Emergency Video Presentation

Pollution is a Huge, Costly, Tax on Our Children

Have the National Emergency Video Presentation show that Pollution is a Huge, Extremely Costly, Unacknowledged, Unvoted-On, Indirect, "Backdoor" Financial and Emotional Tax levied on our society and children by polluters and companies making pollutants and other toxic products.
Unlike regular, voted-on taxes which build and maintain public infrastructure, health and safety, the Backdoor Pollution/Climate (BPC) Tax does the exact opposite!
With global warming increasing the intensity of fires, hurricanes and floods, the Backdoor Pollution/Climate Tax damages and destroys public infrastructure, health, and safety to the tune of 100's of billions of dollars a year, while also damaging and destroying private homes, businesses and lives.
Pollution also emotionally taxes families with stress and suffering. As just one example, seeing your asthmatic child, spouse, partner or parent physically and emotionally suffer, lose days at work or school, plus you find out or already know their heart was damaged or life shortened due to fine particle pollution from the burning of fossil fuels, this is all cause for you too to suffer.
By pollution we mean greenhouse gas pollution as well as the toxic chemical, plastic, fine particle, heavy metal and radioactive pollution that's poisoning our air, water, oceans, soil, food and the bodies of our babies, children and loved ones.

Backdoor Pollution-Climate Tax is a National Security Threat

The Presentation will show how the Backdoor Pollution-Climate Tax is also an Existential National Security Threat.
As the Secretary of Defense said in the 2022 U.SArmy Climate Strategy on page 4 of this pdf:
"We face all kinds of threats in our line of work, but few of them truly deserve to be called existential. The climate crisis does. …Climate change is making the world more unsafe and we need to act.” (our bold.)
As global warming is drying up more and more arable land, and shrinking glaciers rivers, and lakes, more conflicts over shrinking water resources, arable land, and resulting climate migrations are happening in Central America, sub-Saharan Africa, and in Syria where their still ongoing civil war was partially catalyzed after their worst drought in modern history.
Other than the huge social and environmental costs of global warming from burning oil, there is another part of the Backdoor Pollution-Climate Tax which should be taken into account. That is the colossal financial and emotional cost of our addiction to oil, and in particular, militarily protecting and competing for overseas oil supplies.
As an example, the Iraq invasion and war was about oil, or more accurately as President George Bush called it in a State Of The Union Address, our oil addiction. “Of course it’s about oil; we can’t really deny that,” said General John Abizaid, former head of U.S. Central Command and Military Operations in Iraq. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the same: “People say we’re not fighting for oil. Of course we are.” And its long-term cost apart from its personally emotional costs like PTSD is from $1.4 trillion to $3 trillion dollars, depending on whether who's counting is including all its long-term, overall costs. Our wars for our oil addiction should be included in the Backdoor Pollution-ClimateTax.

Climate Tax: A Chemistry Experiment on Our Babies and Kids

The Presentation would show the public and Congress how the Backdoor Pollution-Climate Tax is also a Huge, Uncontrolled, Without-Our-Permission, Chemistry Experiment on Our Children and Society.
This vast experiment take the form of 150,000+ chemicals on the market untested for health impact (!), thousands of chemicals known to be toxic but still on the market (!) that are carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, and endocrine-disrupting, as well as all the plastic, microplastic, nanoplastic, fine particle and heavy metal pollution that's inside and surrounding our babies, children and families.

Backdoor Pollution-Climate Tax Drives Inflation

The Presentation will show how the Backdoor Pollution-Climate Tax Increases Short and Long-Term Inflation, in large part because global warming/extreme weather/global weirding/weather whiplash is destabilizing long term climate patterns world-wide.
As a result, all around the world, humanity is experiencing extreme weather. That is to say either too much rain and heat -- heavier than normal rains, river, flash and coastal floods and record-breaking heat waves -- and/or not enough water and heat -- croplands becoming more arid, droughts, megadroughts and record-breaking cold snaps harming harvests.
Here in the U.S., weather whiplash -- historic drought then too much rain -- is happening in California's Central Valley. Here a "$2 billion agricultural industry that sends cotton, tomatoes, safflower, pistachios, milk and more around the planet" is at risk of disappearing for a year or two.
All of these global warming-driven extreme weather events and looming trends are now starting to and will increasingly result in higher costs for food, beverages, water, hydroelectric power, home and business insurance, healthcare etc.

Pricing That Tells the Social and Environmental Truth!

A Solution to Pollution that's Reality, Morality, Legality, Market-Based, Fiscally Conservative and Plain Common Sense!

Have the Presentation also show how this long-term reality and market-based True Cost Transformation Pricing is based on universal and Judeo-Christian morality and American legality -- being honest, fair, responsible and liable for harm caused to others.
Moreover, it’s also truly, fiscally conservative and common sense as $1 of TCT fees preventing or mitigating pollution is far cheaper and better than $10 or $100 spent on maybe successful cure or clean up later on -- but maybe not!
The National Video Presentation will show that we need to make our economy long-term realistic, morally honest, responsible, and sustainable. And we can do that by using Pricing That Tells the Truth to make what is truly costlier overall in the long run to society and the environment costlier upfront.
This is because our current pricing model leaves out and effectively hides a wide variety of costs pushed onto society and our children who pay now and later with money, stress and their health, not to mention society's and their environment's health.

As an example, the market price of Appalachian coal doesn't take

into account any of the following ...:

The financial and emotional cost of injuries, black and brown lung disease and deaths to miners, their families and communities,
The destruction of over 500 mountain tops, the resulting degradation of over 1 million acres of forests, and the toxic poisoning, degradation or permanent loss of over 12,000 miles of streams by simply dumping waste tailings into valley!.
The health and environmental costs to people living close by and elsewhere of coal's fine particle, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, mercury, lead and other heavy metals which contribute to smog, acid rain and respiratory illnesses like asthma, chronic bronchitis, and again black and brown lung disease.
Finally the market price of coal everywhere hides its huge contribution of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) to global warming with all its social and environmental costs here in the States and world-wide from extreme weather increasing fires, megafires, droughts, megadroughts, the future evacuation of millions when South Florida becomes flooded, etc.

The Power of Pricing That Tells the Truth!

Have the National Emergency Video Presentation show how the new science of industrial ecology using lifecycle cost assessments could periodically figure how much the true, overall costs including social costs and ecological footprints are of various families of goods, services and agricultural, industrial, forestry and fishing methods of production.
Afterwards, the federal government would reflect these true, additional social and ecological costs by levying predictably increasing Taxes on Pollution, what we call True Cost Transformation (TCT) fees, on these families of goods, services and production methods at the most appropriate points of extraction and production.
At importation, taxing them the same way we tax our domestic products will incentivize the rest of the world to do the same internally.
In addition, the predictable increasing of TCT fees gives certainty, incentive and time for investors, businesses and consumers to figure how best to continually reduce their pollution!

The Game-Changing Results of Pricing That Tells the Truth

Continually Reducing Pollution, which continually reduces or slows down one’s TCT fees, becomes more profitable than polluting!
Cleaner, healthier, safer, more sustainable and less expensive goods, services and production methods will increasingly underprice and replace their more dirty and dangerous counterparts --- leading to an increasingly cleaner, healthier, safer, and more sustainable America and world!
Or to put it another way, Saving Money Will Help Save Civilization!

What Happens with Pricing That Tells the Truth

Healthcare costs will go down with healthier air, water, soil, food, homes, workplaces, manufacturing, and agriculture.
Healthcare costs will also increasingly drop for veterans as the need for militarily protecting and competing for overseas oil increasingly drops.
Organically grown food will underprice and replace conventionally grown, chemicalized and tainted food and its production.
Solar, wind and new energy technologies, truly clean and safe throughout their lifecycle, will quickly and increasingly replace oil, coal, gas and nuclear, forcing fossil fuel companies to become clean energy and clean tech companies, working with solar, wind and other promising technologies.

Green Economy Dividends Create a Just, Sustainable Economy

Have the Presentation show that to help buffer the vast majority of taxpayers from initial, economy-wide price increases and to help them buy cleaner, greener goods, services, and vehicles, a smaller portion of these billions of TCT fees would be deposited periodically as Green Economy Dividends into the bank accounts of taxpayers making less than $400,000 a year.
This includes the roughly six million undocumented immigrants who pay federal income tax, Social Security tax, state, local and sales taxes, and indirectly through rent, property taxes.
A larger portion though of these billions of TCT fees would be used as Green Economy Dividends to, like 4 wheel-drive, help pay for ...
an accelerating cycle of TCT fees pushing producers to be constantly cleaner and ...
Green Economy Rebates pulling for constantly cleaner by helping finance both the purchase of and demand for these same constantly cleaner goods, services, and methods, and helping finance their domestic production and supply in a just transition and Green Job Boom that very importantly makes the economy fairer!

A Just Transition and Ever Greener Job Boom

The Green Economy Dividends would help train or retrain the following workers for good-paying, union if they choose, jobs installing, helping them start their own businesses installing, working in businesses that install or if need be, helping them move elsewhere to work in and/or start their own businesses installing solar, wind, insulation and weatherization:
All former workers in polluting industries such as oil, coal, gas, toxic chemicals, and nuclear as well as unemployed, underemployed inner-city, urban, suburban and rural Americans of diverse backgrounds who lost jobs to factories that went overseas or have been left out due to racial and/or gender discrimination.
Many would get trained in detoxifying homes, workplaces, remediating our nation's 45,000+ abandoned mines, 450,000+ abandoned brown fields suspected of having contaminated soil and capping what are believed to be 100's of 1000's of orphan wells.
Green Economy Dividends would also help homeowners, apartment house owners, renters, businesses and farmers buy these same solar, wind, energy conservation and detoxification services, with a new slogan for America ...

Your Home and Business Is Your Castle,

Make It Your and America's Clean Power Plant Too!

Green Economy Dividends (GED's) would help them buy American-made electric vehicles now powered by their own solar and wind systems...
GED's would help train Americans to build a national clean energy grid including concentrated solar thermal plants in the Sun Belt that can produce energy day and night!
GED's would also train them to build clean water systems where needed,
Would help public transportation agencies increase routes with American-made electric vans, buses, ferries, trams and trains powered by wind, and concentrated solar thermal. Also help them lower fares, and perhaps in more congested cities and urban areas, even make fares free.
In addition to what Green Economy Dividends could contribute to those agencies, these additional costs of free fares might be partially or maybe totally offset by reducing congestion, the number of vehicle accidents, the costs of vehicle repair and medical care afterwards, all part of the gigantic national cost of traffic accidents, $340 billion dollars!
Would help these and other public agencies to put up publicly-funded, publicly-owned charging stations and upgrade roads and bridges to accommodate pedestrians, cyclists, electric scooter riders and our current transportation fleets.
Would Help farmers go organic, sustainable and regenerative so they can build America’s soil fertility back up, which in the Corn Belt has dropped 24% to 46%, while sequestering greenhouse gases and preventing water and air pollution.
Helping them buy American-made electric tractors and other farm equipment, especially implements useful for organic farming.

Helping the Rest of the World and Being Responsible for Our Actions

Helping tropical rainforest tribes and adjacent communities buy solar stoves by the tens of millions and buy, vastly expand, reforest and protect adjacent lands and their greenhouse gas sequestration, biodiversity and other ecosystem services so vital to everyone on our planet.
Helping other areas around the world with little financial resources that are especially harmed by our historically largest greenhouse gas emissions.

Incentivizing The Human Race For a Healthy World

Besides True Cost Transformation (TCT) fees being levied at the appropriate points of extraction and production, they'll also be levied at importation. This very importantly and fairly incentivizes the rest of the world to do the same internally, and does so while treating their industry and agriculture the same way we treat our own!
When exporters to the U.S. reduce their direct and embedded pollution, climate, "disposal", and impaired environmental, social, and worker health and safety costs, their TCT fees will either slow down or go down, depending where they are in their pollution reduction cycle.
Given China and India export slightly more than one-third of a trillion dollars worth of goods and services annually to the U.S., this will be a huge and fair incentive for them to become internally cleaner, greener, healthier and more sustainable.
In addition, the European Union this year started to implement a partial version of this, a world's first carbon (only) border tariff. If we here in the States levy a True Cost Transformation fee on the direct and embedded pollution, climate, "disposal" and impaired environmental, social, and worker health and safety costs of the EU's and everyone else's exports to us, this will greatly accelerate The Human Race for a Healthy and Sustainable World.

After the National Emergency Joint Session of Congress

After the public and Congress see compelling videos of others who once thought like them but changed their minds,
After the public and Congress see various U.S. maps, similar to the maps in Presentation Map-Ideas, but even better maps as the public and Congress will be able to zoom in to see their own communities and districts and how these emergencies are now harming and in the the future will be harming them,
After they see the gravity of these current and looming emergencies on a global scale with world maps similar to this one, and see videos like this, World with 3 degrees Celsius, (referring to average higher temperatures of 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit since pre-industrial times),
After the public and Congress see videos how Exxon knew burning fossil fuels would increase global warming but instead funded doubt and denial,
After seeing how Exxon predicted “that the American Midwest and other parts of the world could become desert-like” but with incredible and breathtaking arrogance dodged how this would seriously harm millions of Americans by saying “this problem is not as significant to mankind as a nuclear holocaust or world famine”!
Seeing how Exxon-funded groups, Fox News and so many mostly Republican but also some Democratic leaders, also funded by oil companies, have continuously borne False Witness about global warming for so many years,
Seeing how all workers in polluting industries plus unemployed and underemployed Americans of diverse backgrounds will be able to get good-paying, safer, healthier, union if they choose jobs like those described above, with help moving elsewhere if necessary,
... after the Presentation, we believe enough voters, especially Republicans, Democratic voters from states like West Virginia with large polluting industries, and independent voters, will see that these emergencies threaten their own children, America and the world.
And they will also see how making our economy cleaner, fairer, healthier, safer, and More Sustainable also makes our economy more competitive in the next global green growth industries of clean energy and storage, clean tech, electric vehicles, organic/sustainable agriculture, green chemistry, construction, architecture etc.

We Believe, by Aligning With the Most Important Emotional, Economic and Religious/Spiritual Motives and Beliefs Most Americans Including Climate-Deniers Have:
The love and protection they feel for their children and family, and their pride in America,
Their desire and need to make a decent living or if in business a fair profit,
Their belief in what is true and fair,
Enough voters will see this Plan as an absolute win-win-win for their families, America and the world.

The Impact of the Emergency Joint Session of Congress

Afterwards, any politician still opposing True Cost Transformation Pricing and Green Economy Rebates will also be seen
As effectively helping to jack up the worst tax in history and one that actually hurts and kills. After all, how many children get asthma or lose their home to flood or fire due to income or property tax?
As an enabler and accomplice to this national security threat to our children and their future, by helping it get worse,
As an enabler of this uncontrolled chemistry experiment without our permission on our children that is allowing so many known harmful chemicals to hurt our children,
As an enabler of inflation,
And as not really caring about the sustainability and future of America!