Public Service Announcement for
City of Cambridge Climate Warning Labels
“The point of climate-health warning labels is educating the public. The science is very clear, burning gasoline hurts people’s health and the environment."
Patricia Nolan
Cambridge, MA city council member
and sponsor of the 2020 legislation
Burning fossil fuels is a menace to our health and climate. People have a poor understanding of how fossil fuel combustion harms them now. Think Beyond the Pump advises governments to regulate all consumer markets for fossil fuel using point-of-sale warning labels.
For Hawaiians (Kānaka Maoli) words are not just communication, but contain immediate force and hana (action).
While technological advances may be making ambitious climate goals increasingly plausible, a broader consumer collapse of trust in fossil fuels is necessary for a more comprehensive emissions-cutting project.
Part of a mobilization away from fossil fuels will be educating consumers at the right time and place, about the damage caused from fossil fuel consumption.
“Continued use of gasoline is profoundly harmful to human and planetary health. Requiring warning labels on gas pumps that plainly state these harms will help accelerate the transition to a clean, healthful energy economy.”
—Edward Maibach, MPH, Ph.D., researches public health and climate change communication.
At Think Beyond the Pump, we’re providing policy leaders with our research, thereby shaping efforts globally to create effective consumer information addressing climate-health risks.
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