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Flores, Dora From:Christopher Yrarrazaval-Correa <rubberdune@hotmail.com> Sent:Saturday, February 27, 2021 10:03 AM To:eComment Subject:Make Santa Ana SAFE Dear Santa Ana City Council and Mayor Sarmiento, Fossil fuels pose a threat not only to our planet, but to our community in Santa Ana. Study after study has shown that extracting, transporting, refining, and burning fossil fuels harms environmental and human health – and new evidence shows that toxic air pollution from fossil fuels also makes people more vulnerable to poor outcomes from COVID. The truth is, fossil fuel expansion is undercutting any other work we do on climate action and public health and safety, locking in decades of reliance on fuels dangerous to Santa Ana and the planet. I’m writing to you today to ask you to please pass a climate emergency resolution that includes a SAFE commitment and an endorsement of the global call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Passing this resolution will demonstrate your intent to keep our community healthy and safe. You’ll be committing to taking local action to explore policies that stop fossil fuel expansion and speed up the clean energy transition, while joining a powerful call for global action against the climate crisis. You can learn more about the SAFE Cities movement at https://www.stand.earth/safe and can view a sample climate emergency template with language demonstrating intent to pass SAFE policies and endorse the Fossil Fuel Non- Proliferation Treaty here: https://www.stand.earth/SAFEtemplate. As a member of the Santa Ana community, I’m asking: Will you show leadership on this critical issue and pledge to pass a resolution that commits our community to explore SAFE policies and endorses the global call for a Fossil Fuel Non- Proliferation Treaty? Together, we can keep Santa Ana and the planet safe from fossil fuels, speed up the shift to clean, renewable energy, and create good, long-term jobs. On a personal note and having grown up in Southern California during the sixties and seventies I remember the smoggy days and alerts when you could barely fill your lungs with air without coughing, we have come so far in cleaning the air we breathe and our ocean but there is still work left to do which if not undertaken could translate into climate cataclysms in the near future, thank you. Christopher Yrarrazaval-Correa, 92706 5