This Earth Day, we're not just confronting a climate crisis, we're confronting a political one. At the very moment our communities need stronger safeguards for clean air, safe water, and a livable future, environmental protections are being stripped back, regulatory agencies are being hollowed out, and the industries driving pollution are being rewarded. Fossil fuel interests poured roughly $219 million into the 2024 U.S. election cycle, helping shape an administration and Congress more willing to serve oil, gas, and extraction companies than the public.

And the payoff is already clear: while protection agencies are weakened and enforcement is rolled back, fossil fuel companies continue to benefit from massive corporate welfare - handouts dressed up as tax breaks, subsidies, and policies that keep extraction artificially cheap and profitable. Globally, explicit fossil fuel subsidies reached $725 BILLION in 2024, while the broader failure to make polluters pay their true costs drove total support into the trillions.

This is not neglect.

It is a choice, one that puts corporate profits ahead of public health, democracy, and the planet itself.

Why?

Because beneath every environmental crisis is a deeper, structural reality.

Corporations have more power than people.

This isn’t rhetoric. It’s how our legal system has evolved.

Over time, courts have granted corporations constitutional rights- allowing them to spend unlimited money in elections, scrap environmental protections, and shape public policy in their favor. The result is a system where the largest polluters are not regulated by the government, they've captured it.

Environmental protections are gutted while regulators are outspent and sidelined. Extraction continues, even in the face of public opposition. The shift to renewable energy is increasingly captured by corporate interests, replicating the same profit-driven model. At the same time, energy-hungry AI infrastructure is expanding faster than oversight can keep up, and endless war—driven by the military-industrial complex—remains one of the largest and least accountable sources of pollution on the planet.

And we see it when meaningful climate action is stalled—not because people don’t want it, but because powerful interests block it.

This is not simply a failure of policy.

It’s a failure of power.

We are attempting to solve a planetary crisis within a system that structurally protects the very forces driving it.

Support Move to Amend today and help turn outrage into organized power against corporate domination of our politics.

A Gap No One Else Is Filling

There are many amazing organizations working on climate, conservation, and environmental justice.

But Move to Amend is the only national organization pulling at the roots of the problem: corporate constitutional rights and money as protected speech.

That distinction matters.

While others are organizing to address critical battles on the ground—against pipelines, pollution, endless war and deregulation—
we are weeding out the legal foundation that allows those harms to continue.

Through the We the People Amendment (H.J.Res. 54), we are advancing a solution that would:

• End corporate constitutional rights
• Make clear that money is not speech
• Grant the authority of people and communities to set the rules that govern our future

Without that shift, every environmental victory remains temporary. Every protection is vulnerable. Every step forward can be undone.

What a Sustainable Future Actually Requires

If we are serious about sustainability, we have to be honest about what it demands.

A sustainable planet does not come from one day of awareness.
It does not come from isolated actions, no matter how well-intentioned.

It requires a sustained, people-powered movement—strong enough to demand systemic change.

And that kind of movement doesn’t sustain itself.

It requires resources.
It requires infrastructure.
It requires people willing to invest not just in the outcome—but in the work that makes that outcome possible.

This Is Where You Come In

Right now, Move to Amend is in the middle of our annual Spring Drive. 

Our goal is to raise $60,000 to sustain this work through the end of the year- to continue educating, organizing, and building the national momentum needed to pass the We the People Amendment.

This is not abstract.

Without sustained support, the capacity to do this work shrinks—
at the exact moment it needs to expand.

That’s why the most meaningful action you can take this Earth Day isn’t symbolic.

It’s structural.

💚 Become a monthly donor 👉 HERE

Sustainability isn’t just about the planet.

It’s about sustaining the work that protects it.

A one-time gift helps us respond to the moment.
A monthly gift ensures we can continue showing up - consistently, strategically, and at scale.

If a recurring gift isn’t possible right now:

Please consider making a one-time contribution to the Spring Drive. 👉 HERE

Every dollar moves us closer to our $60,000 goal and helps ensure this work continues without interruption.

Earth Day, Reconsidered

Earth Day should be a moment of reflection.

But it should also be a moment of reckoning.

Until we address the imbalance of power at the heart of our system,
we will continue to treat the symptoms of a crisis we are structurally unable to solve.

A sustainable future is still possible.

But only if we build the sustained movement required to achieve it.

Thank you for being part of this movement.

In solidarity,