Dear colleagues, I hope you will feel able to support this initiative. The US leadership - or lack of it - in this field is fast becoming a disaster. Adrian ------- Forwarded message follows -------
Please support this! -----Original Message----- From: Duncan McLaren [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fwd: FLOOD BUSH ! Email Climate Protest Action] Apologies for cross-posting ... -- please distribute this eMail widely -- SAVE THE CLIMATE TREATY ! FLOOD GEORGE BUSH WITH YOUR E-MAILS! Stop President Bush from betraying the UN climate change treaty! Last year the US blocked progress at negotiations in The Netherlands, now Texas oil-man President George W. Bush wants to destroy the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Friends of the Earth asks people around the world to electronically flood the White House with protest E-mails. Let's give President Bush a taste of what climate change means and how much people are concerned about it. ========================= Please cut and paste the message below into a new E-mail and send it to: PRESIDENT BUSH: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please CC to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to www.foeeurope.org/climate ========================= Dear President Bush, I call on you as President of the USA not to betray the Kyoto Protocol. The United States must live up to its commitment to the UN negotiations to prevent global warming. Sabotaging the Kyoto Protocol puts the USA into a position of environmental isolationism and makes it responsible for climate catastrophe. The US has the highest per capita CO2 emissions in the world. People around the world already faced with the first signs of climate change, suffering from floods and hurricanes, expect your country to be in the forefront of tackling climate change. An enormous potential of creativity, innovation and efficiency is there to be harvested once we have decided to really reduce CO2 emission. If you fail to reverse your decision to kill the Kyoto Protocol, future generations will not forgive you. President Bush, the science is proven and the international political will is there to tackle climate change. The US must join the world in tackling climate change. Sincerely, X ===================== Background: - Bush's campaign for presidency was backed and financed by major US oil giants, which campaigned against the international treaty to prevent global warming. - The US promised to cut their climate changing gases by 7% over 1990 levels before 2012 at the latest, but US emissions in fact rose by more than 10% between 1990 and 2000. - A White House spokesman said: "The president has been unequivocal. He does not support the Kyoto treaty." The Swedish Environment Minister described the move as "appalling and provocative". For more information visit http://www.foeeurope.org/climate or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Climate Team @ Friends of the Earth -- Email President Bush ! - Save the Climate Treaty ! -- Howard Mollett Friends of the Earth Europe Press and Information Rue Blanche 29 Brussels, B-1060, Belgium Tel: 32 2 542 01 89 Fax: 32 2 537 55 96 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Friends of the Earth Europe, the European branch of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), is a network of 31 independent, national environmental organisations in 30 European countries. FoEE is the largest environmental network in Europe working at grassroots level with over 3000 local chapters. -- Duncan McLaren Head of Policy and Research Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) Tel: 020-7566-1682 Fax: 020-7490-0881 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How green is your next MP? Find out using FOE's General Election 2001 website http://www.foe.co.uk/general_election/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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