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The world can't wait for urgent action on climate change.

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Climate change is already having devastating effects on poor people in developing countries. The world's richest countries, which use most of our natural resources, need to help poor communities deal with their changing climates.

The G8 Summit coincides with the famous Japanese Tanabata festival, where people tie written wishes to bamboo trees. We will present the global petition along with the wishes to end global poverty.

Please add your voice today and then forward this link to five of your friends.
onechance

23 responses // The world can't wait for urgent action on climate change.

  • Silence is complicity.
    onechance
  • Well said Onechance. I signed it.
    current89
  • http://www.avaaz.org/en/g8_climate_wakeup/13.php?cl=976...
    I'm with you and so are these guys...

    Last year, the world seemed to wake up to climate change.

    This year, it's falling back asleep.

    Two weeks of global climate negotiations have just wrapped up -- with no real progress. The rich nations are the culprits, refusing to take the lead and commit to emissions cuts that will bring the rest of the world onboard.

    Our best hope: within weeks, those rich country leaders will gather at the G8 summit chaired by Japan. If Japan's Prime Minister offers bold leadership, the G8 summit could be a breakthrough. But, so far, he is pushing in the wrong direction.

    So it's up to us. Next Wednesday, June 18, we will hand-deliver our new climate petition to Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda. If we can muster 250,000 voices in a few short days, we can sound a global alarm on climate that Fukuda and the other G8 leaders cannot ignore. Sign the petition and forward this message to friends.
    dearmat23
  • The World can wait....human beings can not...I have mixed feelings about this...it hurts me so much to see what we have done and allowed to be done to this planet in recent time.......there are far too many people here with only finite resources....far too much waste of all kinds....we travel a million miles a day on a molten core planet that has grown from a small start to the glorious state of today...one day everything will disperse back into that magnificent blender called the Universe....you are all part of the most unique and beautiful show in the entire Universe.....in a very precarious spot where everything is perfect to support life.......this has happened many times just on Earth......you will get patty caked and covered up......why spend all your time fighting and arguing?......everything you see daily is the last link of an unbroken chain......everything....every day in America only enough food is wasted through people's bad habits to feed the world.....the waste of other precious commodities is enormous.....the really sad part is how out numbered the ones that care are by those that don't......Thank you to all those that are trying with all their being to bring about change........Golden Ruler...Johnnie Hargrave....
    Relevations
  • I've been living in Nebraska for the past 14 years. The last two years were the worst for winter weather I've ever seen, and according to long-time, born here kind of people, they agree. This Spring we've already seen 60 tornados in our area. You can't tell me that climate change isn't involved. I expect an extra HOT summer and another brutal winter after that. SIGN THIS PETITION TODAY, AND DON'T FORGET TO PASS THE LINK ON TO FRIENDS AND ASK THEM TO DO THE SAME! PEACE!
    Patio_Patty
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  • Green light!

    Silence is complicity!

    Well said Onechance!

    I know Oxfam from back then when I was a volunteer for the homeless at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. They're good!
    stopnoise
  • i'm all in!
    lizzieism
  • Welllllllllllll now, here's a subject that's controversial and up for discussion.
    Forgive me here, but I will often present lines of thought worth thinking about, although not necessarily my views. Some things, in fact all things, are rarely black or white.

    There are some places on this planet that are not meant for human habitation and it is possible that it is ludicrous to spend untold amounts of money and resources trying to sustain life in those places, when, more often than not, the pigs that control those places seriously misuses those resources, therefore accomplishing nothing other than causing a pig to become a powerful hog and prolonging the misery of those living in misery.

    Just a thought, but one with some substance.

    Love and Peace
    ObiaMan
  • so there's no truth to the reports of the Antarctic ice thickening and average temperatures dropping?

    maybe an experiment should be tried to see if [north-] polar bears could live off seals or penguins in the antarctic?

    why aren't any of you suggesting that?




    no, i did not red light this petition, though i did vote "i didn't like it..." that's different. vote for whatever you want to vote for.... i never stop people from voting.

    i try to educate them as to what they're voting for or against, and what their vote might implement and what the long-term results might be....

    i'm a libertarian atheist, NOT a socialist, nazi or communist... voting is GOOD!
    plusaf
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  • I signed it.
    shroomfairy
  • @onechance, if you can say "Polar Bears need to breath oxygen. The ice is not thickening overall, it may be, in some small places, but overall, it's breaking away and melting. If there's no surface left (soon?) for these bears, they will drown and die. "

    after I write: "so there's no truth to the reports of the Antarctic ice thickening and average temperatures dropping? maybe an experiment should be tried to see if [north-] polar bears could live off seals or penguins in the antarctic? "........

    MAYBE, just MAYBE, you started writing and linking before reading OR understanding my suggestion...

    huh? maybe? TAKE ANOTHER LOOK.... my suggestion IS A WAY to ... perhaps... SAVE THE POLAR BEARS........


    reply again to Onechance...

    when i took a cruise to antarctica in '82, i got to stand on a hill and photograph an estimated several million penguins. it took about three or four 35mm frames to get them all in.

    we stood on ice and came within several feet of seals, because they have no natural fear of humans [or at least, they didn't then...]

    there's LOTS of rock and ice for the bears to stand on, all around antarctica, and there are tons and tons of seals and penguins waiting for them there.

    now, of course, it might REALLY screw up the local ecology, but if the bears are going to die off, as you believe, maybe it IS worth one small experiment before the only ones left are in zoos?
    plusaf
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  • @ObiaMan... this conversation might work better on Yahoo Answers than here, and i think it's also off-topic for this thread, but i'd LOVE to discuss the issue with you.

    i've had similar feelings, but NEVER attributed it to a God-Figure of any sort.

    i've played with the idea of "creative visualization" which some might liken to prayer of a sort, but in no was was there a target or "intended receiver" for the messages i "broadcast into the universe."

    Star Wars' "The Force" might explain what's happened to you AND me, but they don't bring any "god" or "gods" in for credit or blame, either.

    and for me, that's what atheism is... :"a" = without; "theism" = [for me, anyway], belief in any god.

    a good friend once put it this way, after a few drinks at a party at my home... "Alan, if i could, right here and now, convince you that GOD EXISTS................. IOR THAT GOD DOESN'T EXIST, and, out of that "convincing," you were to decide to "live your life differently," all i can say is: you should take a good, hard look at HOW YOU'RE LIVING YOUR LIFE NOW!"

    that helped "do it" for me......

    there are lots of religion and theology and such conversations at Yahoo Answers... start a thread there by posting a question, send me the link and i'll meet you there. you might also get a real kick out of which of MY answers were chosen "best answer" and in which subject fields, by a lot of people.. :))))



    ok, ObiaMan.. no problem... i'm not changing your mind and you're not changing mine, and that's ok with me, too.... peace and love to all, from me, too...

    ciao!
    plusaf
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  • i believe,correct me if im wrong, but all the nay sayers can really say at this point is ... its a natural cycle and you are all alarmists or demagogues. that being said im with you... whether it be accelerated by our foul habits or whether it be "just a part of it all" climate change is real.changes we make (based on our best scientific evidence) can make a difference. our best minds say that we must reduce our impact. we NEED to believe in the great pioneering minds of our scientific community. we need to believe in the rest of the worlds "scientists" i know its hard at times to tell them, and our other wizards, the medical community apart, being as theres always an expert for sale that will endorse or find conclusive evidence for anything you want.and demagoguery's the rule of the day. but in my and your lifetimes, bottled water became necessary and then became poison, and now is in some grey area of if the bottle doesnt ever get too warm to leach into the water its safer but...., our rivers have become unsafe to swim in, our depleting ocean foods are getting polluted by our industry and military to the point of it being "unsafe" to consume too much ocean food. we need at the very least to begin reducing our impact. for any of this to change we must find a way to interest corporate attention (yes i mean we need to make it profitable.) i was thinking, maybe tax breaks based on carbon footprint. and industry leaders (based on impact not size) getting the highest bonus or lowest taxes. this is just one example of the type of thought change i believe we will have to make. we must realize that with our preferred form of democracy comes a real need for financial gain. and that our industry must be led by the wallet to embrace the change we all know needs to take place. this is not necessarily wrong or evil either. i believe irresponsible profiteering is wrong and evil and is ruining our great nation / planet. i am a firm believer in a capitalist representative democracy. it has so many inherent rewards and incentives to strive. but we MUST learn (as a nation for starters) to temper our fascist bents ( allowing industry to make national decisions such as war etc.) with more humanitarian (yes code word for socialist) bents. i dont mean this as a socialist or some other short sighted dreamer. i mean this as an American citizen looking closely at the inherent flaws i see in our current methods of government. we must find a way to eliminate industry control of policy decisions! and we must lead the way to bettering our biosphere and stop being the leader in global desecration.
    somefamilylove
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  • Plusaf:

    So your proposed experiment idea is to actually re-locate the bears?

    I see.

    Well, I'm not a scientist but I'd say it's worth the try if it keeps them from going extinct, but that's not the point...

    The point is for it to never come to having to do that. The way to make THAT happen is to stop all this environmental degradation and destruction.

    Changing the focus to one in which native animals have to move out of their natural environment would be a terrible travesty and a sickening example of man, once again, ruining yet another chunk of this beautiful planet.
    onechance

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