Whereas a stable climate system at the founding of the United States allowed human life and human civilization to flourish; Whereas the United States 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 preserves other fundamental rights, including 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 fossil fuel use for energy in the United States has increased since the Industrial Revolution and accelerated such that the fossil fuel-based energy system in the United States has led to carbon dioxide emissions from the United States constituting more than ¼ of cumulative global carbon dioxide emissions; Whereas the Federal Government sets the energy policy of the United States, which has resulted in an energy system in the United States in which approximately 80 percent of the energy produced in the United States comes from fossil fuels; Whereas the United States is the world’s largest producer of oil and gas, in substantial part through the Federal Government’s leasing of Federal public lands and waters for fossil fuel extraction and through actively promoting, permitting, and subsidizing fossil fuel energy development and consumption