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Counter Climate Crisis - Take the Pledge

Target: United States Senate
Sponsored by: Greenpeace Project Thin Ice, Greenpeace
We can't afford to wait. Already the Arctic has lost over 386,100 square miles of sea ice - an area larger than Texas - due to climate change. This fragile ecosystem, while inhospitable to human life, supports polar bears, walrus and numerous other creatures. And they are all in peril because of the effects of global warming.

Pledge to fight global warming, and call on your elected officials to limit our global warming pollution and provide strong incentives for renewable sources and energy efficiency! 

Higher temperatures threaten dangerous consequences: drought, disease, floods, and the loss of precious endangered species. And amid the threat from rising oceans and extreme weather, global warningÂ’s effects have already begun.

But solutions are in sight: We know where most heat-trapping gasses come from: power plants and vehicles. And we know how to curb their emissions: modern technologies and stronger laws. 

Take the Pledge to fight global warming, and we'll send your message - "Counter the Climate Crisis!" - to Congress!

deadline: 4-28-2006
goal: 100,000
 

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Dear Senator {Name},

Global warming affects our entire planet, but it has particular impact on the delicate polar regions of the world. The effects of global warming are accelerating and ever more noticeable along the ocean shores, in arctic lands, on glaciers, and alpine plants. As a community we need to address this problem.

Today I am joining over 100,000 people in taking the following pledge to do my part to prevent a world-wide climate crisis.
“I pledge to take steps with Greenpeace to fight global warming
and call on President Bush, world leaders, Congress, and my
community to join the fight.”


I appeal to you - do what you can to fight global warming. Protect our families. Protect our future. Protect our planet.

We know the source of the climate crisis: our greenhouse gas emissions are at unsustainable levels. Higher temperatures threaten to radically alter the planet by great incidences of drought, disease and floods, as well as the loss of many endangered species. Amid the threat from rising oceans and extreme weather, global warming’s effects have already begun.

But we have solutions that are available to us. The source of the problem is the heat-trapping gases from power plants and vehicles. We must limit these greenhouse gas emissions. We must provide strong incentives for renewable sources of energy. We must become a more energy efficient nation. And we must do it without investing in unsafe, costly technologies such as nuclear power plants.

Please join with us in preventing a climate crisis.

Sincerely,

{Name}
We signed the “Counter Climate Crisis - Take the Pledge” petition!
# 63,700:
3:37 am PDT, Oct 21, Regina Wirth, Germany
PLEASE hurry up before it is too late!!! Take these poor bears to another place, where they can have a chance to survive. Those people who cause these problems have the obligation to care for the animals and for what they did in general in destroying the nature and the environment.
# 63,699:
1:25 pm PDT, Oct 7, John Miller, Illinois
# 63,698:
3:25 pm PDT, Oct 1, Steven Heaver, New Jersey
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4:23 pm PDT, Sep 14, Karen Katsbulas, Florida
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5:06 pm PDT, Sep 9, Chris Anas, California
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1:55 pm PDT, Sep 8, Octavian Paul Draja, Romania
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9:58 pm PDT, Sep 7, Kaytie Irvine, California
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12:00 pm PDT, Sep 6, Abudicioai Raluca, Romania
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1:29 pm PDT, Sep 3, Mark Smith, Louisiana
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12:36 pm PDT, Sep 3, Kyna Crain, Illinois
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12:38 am PDT, Aug 20, Jacolin Schultz, Wisconsin
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11:43 am PDT, Aug 18, Chuck Dowe, Massachusetts
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10:12 am PDT, Aug 11, Cara Gubrud, Minnesota
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10:56 am PDT, Aug 6, Kaitlin Hoffman, Illinois
# 63,686:
11:40 am PDT, Aug 1, Mauria Schafer, Maryland
# 63,685:
11:21 am PDT, Jul 31, Ashley Abbey, Georgia
# 63,684:
2:51 am PDT, Jul 31, Roxie Schliesmann, Wisconsin
# 63,683:
6:12 pm PDT, Jul 29, Darlene Davis, Michigan
# 63,682:
1:43 pm PDT, Jul 27, Marble Mac, Illinois
IN 40 years, or something, polar bears, seals, penguins, and other arctic animals will drown in the overcoming population of water! they will go extinct, and it's our gosl to put an act to stop, thi!! Bush, this is deciding wether we live or drown! if you've seen al gore, then in a 40 years of time, when greenland melts, the water level in earth will rise 20 feet, leaving us under the water, drowned! so stop, please!
# 63,681:
12:12 am PDT, Jul 26, Keri Hill, Kentucky
# 63,680:
9:58 am PDT, Jul 25, Javier Gomez Haro, Mexico
We can't afford to leave to our children a defficient world.
# 63,679:
12:47 am PDT, Jul 25, Jan Sokolovits, South Dakota
# 63,678:
9:12 pm PDT, Jul 22, Dana Szemereta, North Carolina
# 63,677:
6:08 pm PDT, Jul 15, Alexis Church, Kentucky
beacuse what about the anamils dont you people have harts w if you r homes are benin aken over and you couldnt do anything to stop it anser that
# 63,676:
2:14 am PDT, Jul 11, S. KROESE, Nebraska
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7:43 am PDT, Jul 10, Name not displayed, Sweden
# 63,674:
10:52 pm PDT, Jul 7, Name not displayed, Connecticut
# 63,673:
7:49 am PDT, Jul 6, Linda Dazey, Missouri
# 63,672:
1:18 am PDT, Jul 4, Emiliano Galluccio, Italy
# 63,671:
7:52 am PDT, Jul 2, Amelia Baker, Texas
these things are already starting to happen in a few years it will be like something from The Day After Tomorrow. this needs to stop
# 63,670:
4:36 am PDT, Jul 2, Inge Boey, Belgium
There will be nothing left
# 63,669:
9:09 pm PDT, Jun 26, Mary Owens, Georgia
# 63,668:
12:43 pm PDT, Jun 23, Carrie Zeigler, Ohio
# 63,667:
1:52 am PDT, Jun 23, Paolo Simanic, Italy
# 63,666:
7:16 pm PDT, Jun 20, Dawn Walsh, Canada
we need everyone to help save our animals and save our lifes
# 63,665:
5:03 pm PDT, Jun 20, Kathy Mattingly, Indiana
# 63,664:
12:12 am PDT, Jun 20, Rob V Loon, Netherlands
# 63,663:
1:30 pm PDT, Jun 15, Diogo Martins, Portugal
# 63,662:
11:58 am PDT, Jun 14, Shoshana Bernard, Colorado
# 63,661:
1:12 pm PDT, Jun 13, Juliana Farah, Lebanon
# 63,660:
9:59 pm PDT, Jun 12, Lana Stockell, Connecticut
# 63,659:
7:52 pm PDT, Jun 12, Sharon Dickenson, Kentucky
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7:03 am PDT, Jun 12, Anthony J. Gerst, Iowa
# 63,657:
12:30 am PDT, Jun 11, Matt McLeod, Australia
# 63,656:
4:46 am PDT, Jun 10, Nurith Krueger, Germany
# 63,655:
1:04 pm PDT, Jun 9, Heather Powell, Florida
# 63,654:
6:52 am PDT, Jun 7, Katie Hall, United Kingdom
ALready the ice caps have lost too much space. If it were an area which people lived in then i'm sure the problem would have been addressed already to help stop the ice caps from melting. This is OUR problem. We cannot assign blame to anyone but ourselves, and we MUST take action to curb the effects of global warming. If we do not, then everyone, regardless of where they live, will suffer the consequences.
# 63,653:
5:04 pm PDT, Jun 6, Cloe Virginia Hubbard, Australia
# 63,652:
10:43 am PDT, Jun 5, Amanda Foster, Texas
# 63,651:
12:35 pm PDT, Jun 2, Carina Nilsson, Sweden