The Poetist

“I thought you’d like to know about this urgent call for action on global warming. I’m one of hundreds of thousands who’ve signed a petition on climate change at Avaaz.org. This petition will reach leaders from some of the world’s largest polluters at the APEC summit–please join me in challenging them to address the climate crisis! Click here:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/apec_petition/tf.php

Thanks!“
Basically there are two scenarios for the outcome of this summit – a commitment to  fighting climate change, or adopting voluntary guidelines.  We don’t have time for voluntary guidelines or hopeful resolutions.  Seriously.  I just read This Moment on Earth (great book, you should read it!) and it said that there is a 10-year window of time that we have to severly mitigate our climate changing activities before irreversible and unpredictable damage is done.  Even if that number doesn’t have the broad scientific consensus that the general problem of climate change has, scientists do agree that we’re seeing the affects now, much sooner than people thought.  So please do whatever you can to mitigate climate change – whether by turning off your tv when you leave the room, carpooling, signing a petition, buying a fuel efficient or hybrid car, or whatever is in your scope of action.

From Avaaz.org:

WORLD TO APEC: HOPE IS NOT ENOUGH!

“On September 8 and 9, world leaders from many of the world’s top polluting countries will meet in Australia for the APEC summit. The theme of the meeting is to generate support for voluntary climate agreements, thus undermining the UN’s drive for binding policies. We’ll present our petition to leaders to show them just how many people around the world are calling for real climate targets.”