Title: The Live Earth Pledge
Post by SunriseChaos on Jun 30th, 2007 at 10:12am
This is a copy/paste off an email I have just received from Dr. Mark Pitstick. Quote:Dear friends,
I've never used my email list to forward a message but this is of
ultimate importance.
Yes, we're all indestructible souls, but a human incarnation means
honoring our physical world and bodies. As you probably know from
news reports and the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", controlling
our carbon emissions is crucial to the health and life of many people,
plants, and animals.
Let's use this moment to pledge our support to solving the climate
crisis.
Please sign the Live Earth Pledge
On 7.7.07 more than two billion people will come together during
Live Earth. That number is unfathomable - more than one-fourth of
the world's population will participate in a single event and demand
a solution to the climate crisis. This unique moment presents us
with a unique choice.
Do we use this unprecedented opportunity to organize a global
movement that will last beyond 7.7.07? Or do we let the moment pass?
I know my answer - and I think I know yours. That's why I am issuing
this challenge: Let's use this moment to pledge our support to
solving the climate crisis. Just as important - let's ask everyone
we know to join us as part of this movement.
Sign the 7.7.07 Live Earth Pledge:
http://liveearthpledge.org/algore.php
The 7.7.07 Live Earth Pledge:
I PLEDGE:
1. To demand that my country join an international treaty within
the next 2 years that cuts global warming pollution by 90% in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy earth;
2. To take personal action to help solve the climate crisis by
reducing my own CO2 pollution as much as I can and offsetting the rest to become "carbon neutral;"
3. To fight for a moratorium on the construction of any new
generating facility that burns coal without the capacity to safely
trap and store the CO2;
4. To work for a dramatic increase in the energy efficiency of my
home, workplace, school, place of worship, and means of transportation;
5. To fight for laws and policies that expand the use of renewable
energy sources and reduce dependence on oil and coal;
6. To plant new trees and to join with others in preserving and
protecting forests; and,
7. To buy from businesses and support leaders who share my commitment
to solving the climate crisis and building a sustainable, just, and prosperous world for the 21st century.
Sign the Live Earth Pledge by visiting:
http://liveearthpledge.org/algore.php
Together we were able to make March's Congressional hearings a huge
moment by collecting more than 500,000 messages and demonstrating the
significant public support for solving the climate crisis to our
elected leaders and the media. Our next opportunity to demonstrate
this growing movement will come on 7.7.07
Live Earth will not just be a 24-hour concert - but the launch of a
massive campaign to demonstrate that the political will exists to
solve the climate crisis.
Sign the Live Earth Pledge by visiting:
http://liveearthpledge.org/algore.php
As our movement grows larger we will shake loose the paralysis
currently gripping our political system. Working together we can get
it done.
Thank you,
Al Gore
P.S. You can still sign up to host a Live Earth House Party by
visiting:
http://joinliveearth.org/gore
PO Box 1604
Chillicothe, Ohio 45601
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Please sign the pledge when you have a minute. Show your LOVE for mother Earth. Thank you.
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