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— (1) is fundamental to a free and ordered society; and (2) is preservative of 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 to the point that the national fossil fuel-based energy system 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 a national energy system in which approximately 80 percent of the energy produced in the United States comes from fossil fuels; Whereas the United States is the largest producer of oil and gas in the world, due in substantial part to the Federal Government— (1) leasing Federal public land and water for fossil fuel extraction; and (2) actively promoting, permitting, and subsidizing fossil fuel energy development and consumption; Whereas there is an overwhelming scientific consensus that— (1) human-caused climate change is occurring; (2) the scale of recent changes across the climate system is unprecedented in a multimillennial context