FW: [PermacultureUK] Write to George Bush about Climate Change

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> -- please distribute this eMail widely --

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> **ACT NOW: 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 climate 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.

>

> **ACT NOW!**

> Please cut and paste the message below into a new E-mail and send it to

> PRESIDENT BUSH:

> president

> Please CC to: protest

> or go to www.foeeurope.org/climate

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> Dear President Bush,

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> 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 for creativity, innovation and efficiency is

> there to be harvested once we have decided to really reduce CO2

> emissions. 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

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> 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.

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> - 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 " .

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> For more information visit http://www.foeeurope.org/climate

> or e-mail protest

>

> The Climate Team @ Friends of the Earth

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> Email President Bush! - Save the Climate Treaty!

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> -

> Roger Higman

> Senior Campaigner (Climate and Transport)

> Friends of the Earth (E,W+NI),

> 26-28 Underwood Street,

> London, N1 7JQ

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> Tel + 44 207 566 1661 Fax + 44 207 490 0881

> Mobile + 44 7780 661807

> E-mail rogerh http://www.foe.co.uk