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Dec 14, 2006
Hiya Members

Welcome and thanks for joining. I founded this group to promote a climate change petition which was created by the original Climate Change Action Group http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateChangeAction/ formed in November 2005 to share information and promote the walk for warming across the globe.
As we all know, the walk(s) for warming have helped in a huge way to force our political leaders to at least pay some "lip service" to this global issue... which threatens the very future of our planet.

While creating the petition on "the Petition Site" i stumbled across the Care2 communities, so i founded this group, though i have been too busy with the original group (and other issues) to promote this group.

If members here would like to join the original group (at Yahoo), they would be most welcome. New membership requires approval and posts are moderated for a short period of time.

Climate change is now getting mainstream media attention, people of the globe are worried. The more they learn the more they are concerned about it. Our political representatives will soon have no choice but to bow down to public pressure and DO THE RIGHT THING WITH OUR TAXES!


There are currently ~65 active members in the original Climate Change Action Group (URL above), and there is MOUNTAINS of information stored in the files section. The discussions, which have been ongoing for over a year, are lively and informative.


A great bunch of very active people from right across the globe.

The goal for the petition is 100,000 signatures and we have just over 700 to date.

Unfortunately i simply do not have time to participate in all the groups here at Care2, promote the petition, distribute information and answer email messages... along with working and caring for my son and building my house... there are simply not enough hours in the day.

I do not get time to adequately host this Care2 group..., when i signed in the other day for the first time in weeks, there was an action event waiting to be approved (by Greenpeace). I have no idea how long this action has been put on hold (for approval) due to my lack of time.

If anyone would like to step up and take over as group host, or help me to keep on top of things a little better... please email me asap. For campaigns/
actions/information distribution to be put on hold (due to my lack of time) is simply NOT good enough.... 
anne@globalclimatechangeaction.org

oh.... almost forgot... check out our interactive website (under construction)...
http://globalclimatechangeaction.org
I would be delighted if members of this group would like to help add to the section “Ways Forward”. I hope that a “5 year Strategic Plan on the mitigation of global climate change” could be created there.


The petition can be located here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/737214963
and the wording is pasted below for your convenience.
Please sign it and promote it throughout your networks... if you are from an organization that would consider endorsing the words, please table the petition for endorsement at your next meeting.


There are requests for endorsement of the words of the petition pending to the Greens (Queensland & Australia), Socialist Alliance (
Australia), Friends of the Earth (UK), and FOE Australia. I will be approaching further groups (and political parties) for endorsement of the wording in coming weeks.

Warmest regards
Anne
(group host)

Care2 Climate Change Action Group

Yahoo Climate Change Action Group

http://globalclimatechangeaction.org

anne@globalclimatechangeaction.org
petition wording:
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION PETITION
TO: The Honourable Elected Representatives of the Government(s) of our
Nation.

We, as global citizens, having the right to decide where our taxes are
spent, and being increasingly concerned about our taxes and research
funding being invested into subsidizing unsustainable and polluting
energy production methods which induce climate change (for example the
coal and nuclear industries) hereby request that those tax dollars and
research funds be RE-CHANNELED into sustainable energy production that
will protect the planet and benefit all its inhabitants, indefinitely.

Due to Climate Change through high levels of CO2 being released into our
atmosphere (and overwhelming information from the scientific community
confirming this) we believe that our taxes and research funding would be
better spent in reducing CO2 emissions if they were invested into clean,
sustainable energy production methods and living systems.

We believe our tax dollars and research funding, which are currently
spent on the production of energy for our use, must increasingly be used
for the development and supply of the following sustainable energy
production methods and living systems:

1. Research and development of government owned geothermal energy
production.
2. Immediate investment into the development of Tidal; Wave; Wind; and
Solar Power energy production.
3. More Government-funded infrastructures for local, clean, sustainable
energy supplies.
4. The re-instalment and/or continuation and/or the immediate
development of a solar energy rebate scheme and the creation of
subsidies and/or rebate scheme(s) for other alternative clean and
sustainable power supply systems.
5. The development of Government funding support (at all levels) for
sustainable living education programs for individuals and families.
6. Improved and affordable family oriented local and national public
transport, funded by all levels of Government, which remain in the hands
of the people of our nation.
7. Adequate Government funding (from all levels) for the maintenance and
upkeep of our existing public transport systems and infrastructures.
8. No further privatisation of our existing rail systems and publicly
owned transport infrastructures.

We also request that taxes currently spent on scientific research into
polluting, toxic and CO2 producing industries be re-channeled into
scientific research leading to the rapid and immediate development of
CLEAN, NON-POLLUTING, SAFE and SUSTAINABLE energy production methods and
living systems.

Name
Address
P/Code
DOB
Signature
email address

online:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/737214963 (for your records).
718 signatures to date.


 

 
 
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