Write to Jeffrey Leerink

Overview of what your message is trying to achieve:

• challenge Leerink’s reputation as Greater Boston’s Public Health and Life Sciences champion 

• call on Leerink to cancel his reckless expansion plans for the super-rich at the detriment of our fragile climate and public health – it’s a luxury our climate can’t afford

• urge Leerink to do the right thing: cancel his expansion plans and use his property for a public health or life sciences investment—and not just pull out or flip it to another buyer

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Subject: Write your own subject – samples below:

• Cancel your super-emitting private jet expansion plans

• Stop your private jet Hanscom expansion plans

• Uphold your public health legacy & stop your Hanscom private jet expansion

• Don’t crash your biotech reputation with your Hanscom private jet hangar plans

• Your super-emitting secret is out: don’t risk your life sciences legacy

• Public health or Climate Catastrophe: Your Choice

Greeting

• Dear Jeffrey Leerink

Paragraph 1 - Introduce Yourself

• I am a concerned parent who cares about the climate and the future of all children.

• I am a concerned citizen and member of Mothers Out Front in (your town/city) – or another organization/

• I am a grandparent with deep concern for future generations.

Paragraph 2:  Acknowledge Leerink’s reputation for investments in Public Health, Life Sciences & Biotech

• You have built a reputation for supporting and advancing public health [or Life Sciences or Biotech]

• In the Greater Boston area, you are heralded for your investments in Public Health [or Life Sciences or Biotech]

• We applaud you for your investments and contributions to Public Health [or Life Sciences or Biotech]

See this article about him for more on his reputation: 7/17/23 Boston Globe story

Paragraph 3:  Explain your concerns by using 1 or more of the points below, or ideas from protest statements.

Please focus your concerns on the climate impacts of the private jet expansion.

• I am writing to assert/point out/bring to your attention that your plans to build 17-27 private jet hangars on 50-acres at Hanscom Field are antithetical to/would undermine/threaten your reputation as a Public Health and Life Sciences investor.

• Are you aware that:

  • Private jets are the most polluting form of travel per passenger for their carbon footprint?

  • Your proposed plans would be directly responsible for cancelling over 50% of the climate gains from solar PV ever installed in Massachusetts?

  • Your proposal to dramatically increase private jet capacity by 17-27 hangars will have devastating impacts on our Commonwealth’s efforts to stabilize the Climate?

  • Your expansion plans go against everything we are working for in Massachusetts and threatens our ability to meet our climate goals.

  • ALL sectors are being called upon to reduce their carbon footprints drastically and immediately?–this means drastic cuts in aviation emissions, not just reducing emissions from buildings?

  • Massport is greenwashing your plans by claiming, without support,  that a build-out of 50 acres of private jet capacity for 17-27 hangars will reduce GHG emissions?

  • Surely you’re aware of studies that document that when highways are widened to reduce congestion, more congestion results. The same applies to your plans: build it and they will come.

• When your collaborator, Massport, claims it will achieve Net Zero emissions by 2031, they base this misleading claim only on reduction in building emissions – with NO Inclusion of aviation GHG emissions whatsoever.

• Private jet travel is a privilege for the few at the expense of the many. Eighty percent of the world's population has never been on even a commercial plane, yet they bear the brunt of climate change.  This is what your proposal would be perpetuating.

• Alternate tack:

  • Private jet expansion is not a health investment

  • Private jet emissions harm our health

  • Don’t build new private jet hangars in a climate emergency

  • Choose your legacy:  Public Health or Climate Catastrophe

  • Why should you and Massport be allowed to expand infrastructure at Hanscom for the most polluting form of travel, while the rest of Massachusetts is working arduously to reduce its carbon emissions to help get the Climate Crisis under control?

  • It’s the height of outrage and insanity for you and Massport to be expanding your carbon footprint with plans for super-polluting private jets when towns and cities across Massachusetts are struggling to reduce theirs.

  • Why should private luxury travel for a few be allowed to expand in the midst of a climate emergency?

  • It’s irrelevant whether you build 27 or 17 new hangars; an expansion of ANY size will further undercut Mass climate gains.

Paragraph 4: End with a clear ask 

• call on Leerink to cancel his reckless expansion plans for the super-rich at the detriment of our fragile climate and public health – it’s a luxury our climate can’t afford

• urge Leerink to do the right thing:

  • cancel his expansion plans

  • use his property for an investment in something he can continue to be proud of: public health, life sciences, and biotech

  • don’t just pull out or flip it to another buyer who’ll pursue the expansion

Signature

Sincerely,
Name and town/city

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