COP15: Wake Up. Speak Up. Better Late than Never
Geschreven op 20-10-2009 - Erik van Erne. Geplaatst in Agenda, Klimaat
On December 7, 2009, representatives of governments, NGOs, and businesses, as well as researchers into climate change and members of the press from all over the world will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark, to finalize a follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012. This is our last best shot at halting and reversing global greenhouse gas emissions before the 2015 date climate scientists posit as a turning point, beyond which escalating emissions could trigger catastrophic climate disruption.
Never having signed the Kyoto Protocol it helped negotiate, the United States has dragged its feet for years while actually increasing its rate of emissions. Only the global recession has managed to slow that rate, but we need to do more. Already, the framework agreed to in Bali in 2007 is being watered down in negotiations, and the resulting agreement may fall into the too little, too late category.
The world faces an impending bottleneck: too many of us consuming limited resources on a finite planet, flooding the air, water and soil with toxins, fouling our nest. If you already know this and are doing nothing, its time to wake up. There are many organizations you can join to magnify your individual effort to reduce our collective impact on the planet’s climate. Heres one good place to start.
And heres another way to get involved: participate in the International Day of Climate Action, October 24, 2009. Sign up for an action in your neighborhood, or organize one yourself: http://www.350.org/o24/action/4951/
Wake up. Speak up. Call or write your congresspersons and members of the Obama administration before and during the Copenhagen conference. Let them know that you support a much stronger curb on emissions than what they are currently proposing. Better late than never. Let’s Sign the Deal
Mike zegt:
7 november 2009 om 20:25 | Permalink
Watch Lord Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul - Updated with Slides (1:31:00 shows some nice info)
Erik van Erne zegt:
8 november 2009 om 07:49 | Permalink
@Mike
Added the video and yes, it’s time to wake up. We humans have impact on climate. TckTckTck !