Government declaring “a climate emergency”: a thought experiment

Today, I received an email from a local climate group urging me to support "Build Back Fossil Free." It included two documents -- links follow. One urged recipients to call President Biden and urge him to (1) Declare a climate emergency, (2) Ban new fossil fuel leasing on public land and waters, (3) Use the Defense Production Act to scale up renewables. This is my response. Attached image:...