Whereas a stable climate system at the founding of this Nation allowed human life and human civilization to flourish; Whereas this Nation was founded on the deeply rooted principle of securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity ; Whereas the Constitution of the United States protects the fundamental rights to life, liberty, property, and equal protection of the laws; Whereas a climate system capable of sustaining human life is fundamental to a free and ordered society and is preservative of other fundamental rights, including, but not limited to, the rights to life, liberty, property, personal security, family autonomy, bodily integrity, and the ability to learn, practice, and transmit cultural and religious traditions; Whereas the Federal Government sets our Nation’s energy policy, which has resulted in a national energy system in which approximately 80 percent of our Nation’s energy comes from fossil fuels; Whereas the national fossil fuel-based energy system has led to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the United States constituting more than one-quarter of cumulative global CO2 emissions; Whereas the United States is the world’s largest producer of oil and gas, in substantial part through the Federal Government’s opening up of Federal public lands and waters for fossil fuel extraction and through actively supporting fossil fuel energy; Whereas there is an overwhelming scientific consensus that human-caused climate change is occurring and that the present rate of global heating and ocean acidification is a result of the buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions, primarily CO2 emissions, largely from the combustion of fossil fuels; Whereas current atmospheric CO2 levels of over 400 parts per million (ppm) have caused a dangerous planetary energy imbalance, equivalent to the amount of energy of exploding more than 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs per day, 365 days per year, across our planet