Al Gore's Goal To Drum Up 500,000 For Immediate Action On Climate
by Tim McGee, Helena, MT, USA on 03.20.07
Tomorrow, Al Gore will testify to congress, and would like to go in with 500,000 messages demanding immediate action to solve the climate crisis. As of yesterday he had over 400,000. If you agree that immediate action is needed, then follow this link to be part of the solution.
From Al's Letter:
"By the way, maybe this goes without saying, but please reach out to Republican and Independent, as well as Democratic friends. One of our goals must be to make this issue one that transcends partisanship. While many of the solutions to the climate crisis will be found within the political system, there should be bipartisan and transpartisan agreement on the basic nature of the crisis and the sense of urgency that is appropriate for us to solve it."
Perhaps he could start by reducing his own energy consumption. Or is conservation and environmentalism only something for the "little people"?
Nick Kasoff
Gore has done an excellent job getting people to notice Global Climate Change as a pressing issue. He is respected globally and has used that to our advantage.
Sorry, who's advantage?
Apparently not yours.
Continue your battle Al Gore.
It's important !
Anyone know if it's worth a Limey signing that petition??
Story in the Daily Tennessean paper of this week relates that Al Gore's home lacks solar panels due to a year of delay stemming from local zoning code that actually forbade their presence. Now that the code has been revised, approvals are pending. However...and here is the irony...that same code also forbade the visible parking of SUV's in ones' driveway (now that's retro-Toni), a requirement that also was just changed. So...is a that a "win/lose" proposition?
I guess this is open only to US residents, since there is nothing on the site that lets you specify another country..
Since this is a global problem, I'd say go for it.
Sadly, I suspect it's not worth non-Americans signing it. It's not that it's not an issue that affects people globally, it's that it's a petition being given to people who perceive their primary responsibility as local. The recipients of that list are politicians whose primary concern is their electability with and service to American citizens. To a critic, non-American names on the petition presented to Congress would be perceived as padding, and make it look like an issue he was unable to interest enough Americans in. Try to imagine presenting a petition to Ken Livingstone about, say, congestion charges with American signatures on it...
Yay