ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! Join Bushfires and Scientists in Condemning Australian Climate Change Policy
By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark project http://www.climateark.org/ April 18, 2009 TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=australia_climate Australia must stop being a climate change laggard. Given severe drought and massive wildfires, the Rudd Government's target to reduce carbon emissions by 5% by 2020 is dangerously insufficient. BRIEF BACKGROUND: The Australian government is failing to establish and implement a rigorous climate change policy adequate to respond to the global climate emergency. The Rudd Government's emissions trading scheme (ETS) aims to cut emissions by 5 percent by 2020 and 60 percent by 2050. The Governments cowardly response to its greatest challenge has been explicitly condemned by climate scientists and implicitly condemned by recent climate enhanced devastating bushfires which tragically killed 200 people. Australia's per capita greenhouse gas emissions are among the highest in the world, and their economy is based heavily upon the deadly coal fossil fuel industry which exerts undue political influence. Unsustainable Australian lifestyles including native forest clearing and wasteful water use threaten their continent's fragile ecosystems, and the drought and intensified bushfires are a precursor of Australian and global ecosystem collapse to come. Given imminent strengthened regulation of greenhouse gases in the United States and Europe, it is time for Australia to embrace sufficient climate change policies including committing to ambitious targets that will require ending its use and export of coal, and stopping native forest clearing. TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=australia_climate DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/2009/04/alert-join-bushfires-and-scien.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]
