83Resolution in Support of the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, H.R. 763:

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• Whereas Unitarian Universalism’s 7th Principal articulates our “Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part”; and
• Whereas fossil fuel use by human societies is escalating and disrupting the global climate; and
• Whereas fossil fuel use also inflicts costs on society that are considerably higher than their market prices; and
• Whereas these costs are inflicted disproportionately on the poor, on vulnerable ecosystems, and on future generations; and
• Whereas the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, H.R. 763, now before the U.S. House of Representatives presents a direct, transparent, efficient and fair method of slowing, halting, and reversing these trends; and
• Whereas the provisions of this Act will exert many beneficial effects upon the economic well-being of all U.S. citizens; and
• Whereas the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton has a long history of activism aimed at protecting the environment in many ways, including passage in 2012 of a similar climate resolution;
• We now therefore resolve, as the Board of Trustees of UUCP in support of the earlier Congregation resolution in 2012, to actively support the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, H.R. 763 and any subsequent bill that embodies the same principles and to urge all of New Jersey’s Members of Congress to do the same.

As adopted by the UU Princeton Board of Trustees, February 11, 2020.