Because We Love This Earth… December 8, 2007: A Call to Action
From December 3 to 14, 2007, international representatives and heads of
states will meet in Bali, Indonesia to address the challenge of setting
new parameters of human activity in preparation for the expiration of
the Kyoto Protocol in 2012. The mandate is to limit and prevent further
unbridled greenhouse gas emissions into the planet's atmosphere to
prevent the unimaginable from becoming the inevitable.
The international environmental movement, in more than 39 countries,
will mobilize at the time of the conference, on December 8th. The
planetary community is calling for courageous and unprecedented
decisions from governments, from institutions, from all of us -- to
change our course. We must develop binding and effective limits on
carbon emissions and a global strategy for conversion to renewable
energy sources, such as the sun, the wind and the sea, along with
appropriate rewards and deterrents.
In the United States, we have the opportunity -- and the responsibility
as one of the major contributors to the crisis -- to make December 8th
an overwhelming manifestation of hope and determination in every
community throughout the land - where we live. As human beings,
conscious of our unique impact on this beloved earth, we have the duty
and the potential of finding our way out of this danger, to change the
footprint to an imprint of hope.
Can we come together across the usual barriers that divide us for a new
expression of our unity as planetary citizens?
Global warming carries unprecedented implications for the food, water,
health and security of the Earth and our children as the temperatures
become intolerable and the sea levels rise.
We see the unequal impact of the climate crisis and natural disasters
on the poorest, most vulnerable countries and communities, reminding us
those natural disasters are never simply that. We must work for justice
on every level as we call for a new way of being on this earth
together, and understand how power and privilege play determining roles
on even the impact of a storm, a drought, a fire. We are calling for a
day of reflective action, information, community participation;
expressing urgency and possibility in an explosion of imaginative
shapes, voices and forms.
Let us make December 8th a day our children and grandchildren and their
children will look back on as a time when we stopped and started again,
with renewed imagination and clarity, unified in caring for this
natural world -- human, plant, animal - water, air, earth - ourselves
and one another.
We call on all to put aside business as usual on December 8th
http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/