Green | September 24, 2009 | 5 comments

To the G20 - Danger: Climate Destruction Ahead.

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNVkmpkPSDg

captainplanet71
Yesterday, shortly after 10:00 am activists snuck out onto Pittsburgh's West End Bridge, attached their climbing gear to the railing and swung over the side to unfurl a massive banner. The banner is a road sign for the G20, the finance ministers of the world's largest national economies who are meeting their this week. It is a road sign warning them if they don't act, the consequences will be dire.

The activists hung strong for 2 hours before ascending and being brought into custody by the police. 12 hours later this video came out and I had to post it. Not because I work for Greenpeace (I do), not because many of the activists are my friends (they are), but because it gives these brave activists a chance to ask and answer a question we all need to think about:

Why am I here today?

So I want to ask you, why would you take bold action to stop global warming?

Would you do it for your grandchildren? For arctic ecosystems? For farmers in Africa? For your cousin on the Gulf Coast? To tell world leaders you are ready and ask why aren't they?

I would take bold action because I am so inspired by my friends who carried out this amazing action that world leaders cannot ignore.

For the planet!
Chris, Greenpeace Online Organizer
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5 comments // To the G20 - Danger: Climate Destruction Ahead. // Video

  • leahl
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      leahl  

    • I take bold action because when my friend's children look to me in 20 years and ask me what I did in the face of all of the information we have, I want to have a good answer.

      And frankly, I have had many life changing moments in the wilderness, in parks, and have come to love the natural environment. I want to be able to share it and live a long healthy life.

    • 2 years ago
  • Birdmanbob4
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      Birdmanbob4  

    • Ask your self ...as soon as Van Jones quit. The Green Party wanted him to be their leader...WHY? is it beause Van Jones is a Commie?...YES IT IS! The Commie movement has taken off their shoes and moved right in and made their self comfortable on the Green's movement's Couch!! Obama has yet to tell the truth

    • 2 years ago
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  

    • Why would I take action?

      Well picture the planet as a big garage, a sealed garage with an automobile running inside. You are in the garage too. Doesn't take much brains to figure out what's going to happen does it.

      When we pollute the planet, we are polluting ourselves too. It's all one big ecosystem, and I for one would like to keep it going for as long as possible.

    • 2 years ago
  • metalcookiesxy70
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      metalcookiesxy70  

    • There are many who don't actually believe in saving us from the planet, but rather believe its the exact opposite, that the theory of CO2 should exhausted more and should be fuel by cars even more often, that we aren't destroying the planeet, but actually helping it....

      People believe in such conspiracies like that(The theory of pollution is good), and as long s they believe it, we cannot convince them enough, even that we do have facts, they still refuse to believe that global warming is real....

    • 2 years ago
  • captainplanet71
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