My name is Judy Rosman, and I live in Moreland hills, OH. My telephone number 

is" 16-"~6-91)20. I am here as a mother, fighting for a safe and habitable planet for my 

children and all of our children. Have you ever witnessed a mother take action when she 

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Here we find climate change deniers and representatives from Big Oil and Big Coal 's tl o-\-

arguing that we cannot conclusively prove that climate change is caused by our relentless 

burning of fossil fuels. And here you have a mom to remind you that if that is the burden 

of proof we must meet before making a change, that we must be absolutely, 100% certain 

that we are causing the problem by burning fossil fuels, we will be too late to save 

ourselves. By the time I 00% certainty could exist, if it could EVER exist, the path 

towards the destruction of the beautiful life-sustaining climate we have enjoyed will be 

irreversible unless we are then able to create some amazing leap in technology for carbon 

capture and removal that does not exist today. While I value and respect our engineers 

and inventors, I would not dare to bet the future of the sate and easy habitability of our 

planet on some innovation that does not yet exist. 

Humans swim in a river of denial every day. I could attribute my extra I 0 pounds to my 

genes and easily ignore my affection for ice cream! But the stakes here are too high. We 

have been given a gift, a beautiful gift, which we enjoy every day, of a planet where 

everything works together in a way that allows us to live and breathe and drink and eat so 

easily. Just the opportunity to live on this earth and have it support us so effortlessly is a 

gift. 

And the sense of entitlement and privilege on the part of the oil, coal and gas companies 

is infuriating to me. They think it is their right, their privilege, their entitlement to ~ 

pollute our air with as much carbon and methane as they want, with little or no 

responsibility to clean it up, and pocket the profits, leaving any problems caused by their 

pollution for the rest of the world to deal with. If climate change is catastrophic, they will 

have pocketed their profits for decades with hardly a worry and the consequences will be 

for others to have to fix. They think that is their privilege because they have so much 

political clout and they justify their actions as being for the good of the world because 

they provide essential energy and jobs for coal and oil and gas workers. But you and I 

know that we don't have that privilege. If my kids make a mess, if! make a mess, or if 

you make a mess, we know it is only good manners to clean it up. It is respectful to the 

people around you. And if you or I have a business producing almost anything, we cannot 

be allowed to just dump our waste into the air and water and out into the street! Big oil, 

big coal and big gas should not be so high and mighty that they can ignore their basic 

responsibility to clean up or refrain from making a mess in the first place. They can't 

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leave their mess for me and you and our children to deal with and then take home their fat 

profits in the meantime, and while our children will be left with extreme flooding, 

huddling in their basements wondering whether the latest tornado will hit their homes, 

rebuilding communities and mourning the loss ofloved ones who died in the latest 

extreme hurricane. How quickly we forget! Do we even remember the devastation 

caused by Hurricane Katrina, now that New Orleans is thriving again? Do we give 

ourselves permission to forget the extreme weather just because Hurricane Sandy has 

passed, and we have moved on? 

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Nst if we Eisa't alia,; them to do it. We must tell~ they cannot pollute our world with IY\\\"11'~ \Dbh•.,"'-C~ -t 

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I am a mother. And when I believe that the overwhtC~ing evidence is that someone is 

endangering my children, I do not need to wait11&'ilt1l''the damage is so total and complete 

that I can declare I 00% certainty that I need to take protective measures. And so I am 

here today asking you to help me protect my children and yours by telling the fossil fuel 

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industry to stop, stop, STOP thinking you can just pollute our atmosphere with carbon..~o (Yldhc'-f'le_ 

and leave future generations to deal with the consequences. 

As for jobs .. .I celebrate the change that new standards limiting pollution will bring 

about. The more expensive it is to produce fossil fuels, the cheaper renewables become 

by comparison. We will spawn new industries and create new opportunity for economic 

growih in the clean energy industry. The more we restrict carbon pollution, the more 

incentive we will have to create organic solar cell technologies, more efficient wind 

turbines, and a host of other wonderful new ways of producing clean energy, many of 

which we might not even be envision today! I would like to see my children excited 

about careers in clean energy, and to be proud of our country as a leader in paving the 

way for a sustainable environment and clean energy production for the world. It will be a 

rebirth for a tired nation, and give us a new engine for economic growth that will allow 

inventors and engineers and manufacturing workers to do well by doing good, producing 

sustainable and renewable and clean energy for all of us, and keeping our planet beautiful 

and safe and habitable for our children and their children.