Dear colleagues, Today is the beginning of the end for coal. We simply must generate more online protest in support of peaceful civil disobedience against the U.S. Capitol's own coal energy use. Yesterday we had a brief system outage, where some participant's protest emails were not in fact sent. Please, this is very important, send the alert now (again) at:
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=coal_kills We simply need more participation in this and all our online protests. Help us end coal and protect old forests, as keystone responses to the climate, biodiversity, water and global ecological sustainability crises. For the Earth, Dr. Glen Barry ********************** ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! Coal Kills -- Time for People Power to Protect the Climate By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark project http://www.climateark.org/ March 1, 2009 TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=coal_kills The use of coal must end if we are to maintain an operable atmosphere, human civilization and all the Earth's complex life BRIEF BACKGROUND: The growing and powerful climate movement has, based upon climate science, already shown conclusively that climate change is real and deadly. Now we must urge politicians, industry and individuals to immediately act and transform themselves if we are to survive. Finally, a mass protest against coal -- whose plants are "factories of death" -- is to occur in America, reflecting the urgency and depth of the one most important, sufficient climate response through non-violent civil disobedience. Coal generates the highest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per unit of energy obtained, and large reserves remain that must not be burned if we are to survive. Continued reliance upon coal, without immediate phasing-out of plants that emit into the atmosphere, is incompatible with any scenario to reduce atmospheric GHGs to a safe level in time to avert irreversible and catastrophic climate change. Ecological Internet wholeheartedly endorses the Capitol Climate Action -- the largest mass civil disobedience for the climate in U.S. history. On March 2, you are urged to join thousands of people in protesting at the Capitol Power Plant in Washington DC, a plant that powers the U.S. Congress with dirty energy. We encourage you to consider marching and getting arrested to make the point that the age of coal is over, and/or to show your support for the brave protestors and the end of coal by sending the message below. Please call upon President Obama to ensure the Capital Power Plant ends its use of coal, commit to a permanent global ban on new emitting coal plants, and an urgent timetable to close existing plants that emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=coal_kills DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/2009/02/alert-coal-kills----time-for-p.asp --- You are subscribed to ecological_internet as [email protected]. Before unsubscribing, please consider modifying your list profile at: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/[email protected] To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] Or click here: http://email.ecoearth.info:81/u?id=84041H&n=T&c=F&l=ecological_internet To subscribe visit: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
