Read Modern Times Brewing Co.’s Stirring Letter to Congress on Climate Change

Modern Times is not exactly a brewery afraid to wear its heart on its sleeve. The San Diego stalwarts, who now have locations in L.A., Encinitas and Porland, OR, are known for taking action on issues they believe in, whether it’s offering an entirely vegan menu in the brewery taproom or slowly converting the company into employee ownership. Their fans clearly respect the brewery’s willingness to take a stand on social issues, and that will now include Modern Times’ latest endeavor: A strongly worded missive to Congress, on the issue of climate change.
The brewery sent off a letter, which you can read in full here, to Congresspeople Jimmy Gomez, Suzanne Bonamici, Scott Peters, Kurt Schrader, Susan Davis and Juan Vargas, in which they make an earnest plea for the sort of “Green New Deal” favored by modern political progressives. This type of sweeping legislation would limit U.S. emissions and “decarbonize the economy,” with the goal of staving off the massive ecological disasters that an overwhelming majority of scientists have warned us will occur in Earth’s near future. Many projections give us only a decade or slightly longer to make many of these changes, in order to avoid disaster.
As the letter reads, with a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor: