[VegChat] STOP CLIMATE CHAOS:STOP THE WAR ON TERRA

[Edelweiss D'Andrea]

STOP CLIMATE CHAOS
STOP THE WAR ON TERRA

GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION ON NOVEMBER 4, 2006

The world's emerging scientific consensus is that we have less than ten years to stop climate chaos. Climate change is already claiming the lives of 150,000 people every year, according to the World Health Organization, which points out that number could double within 30 years if we don't take action now. On November 4, 2006, people in at least 45 countries around the world will rise to the challenge of the climate crisis, as part of a global day of action to save the planet. 

ACT for the Earth and the Climate Chaos Coalition are calling for demonstrations throughout Canada on November 4 to demand immediate action to save the climate, and encouraging climate contingents to join the peace demonstrations on October 28.

The international protest comes on the eve of the next round of UN climate talks in Nairobi, Kenya. The last round of talks were met with hundreds of thousands of people in 30 countries around the world taking to the streets to demand action, including over 40,000 people in Montreal, Canada, where the meeting took place. This next round of protests is expected to be even larger and broader, as people around the world are literally feeling the heat.

When it comes to the climate crisis and wars for oil, the Canadian government has been following the shameful and dangerously misguided (or misunderestimated) lead of George W. Bush and company. Stephen Harper is endangering the planet and humanity in the process. With Canada currently chairing the international UN meeting, broad and widespread protests across the country are more crucial than ever before.

Time is Running Out... Everywhere in the world today the impacts of climate change are being felt. Despite the impression the media often leaves - that there is still a question about whether climate change is happening - there is little doubt in the international scientific community. Glaciers and permafrost are melting. Oceans are rising. Smog is increasing. Ocean and air current patterns are changing. Hurricanes are becoming more frequent, and more deadly. All of these problems are being caused by a rise in global temperatures. The rise in temperature is being caused by our increased burning of fossil fuels, and Canada's war in Afghanistan supports the Bush agenda to 
control oil resources in the mid-east and central Asia.

The Climate Crisis Coalition in the U.S., which helped organize a peace, climate change, and civil rights protest of over 300,000 people in New York on April 29, makes clear the need to connect global warming to human rights, labour, peace, faith, sustainable business practices, environmental justice and many other issues. We need to take this to heart. Climate change is no just an environmental issue – it is everyone's issue. And on November 4 we need to unite to send a strong message. It is not yet too late, but time is running out...

No more oil wars – clean energy now!


Endorsed by: 
The Canadian Peace Alliance, www.acp-cpa.ca 
Greenpeace,  www.greenpeace.ca


To endorse / participate: 
www.actfortheearth.org/climatechaos, 647-436-6398
climatechaos at actfortheearth.org


For more information on the Climate Crisis Movement:
www.climateactionnetwork.ca
www.globalclimatecampaign.org

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