> > SAVE THE CLIMATE TREATY !
> >
> >
> > Friends of the Earth asks people around the world to electronically
> > flood the White House with protest E-mails.
> >
> > =========================
> > Please cut and paste the message below into a new E-mail and send it to:
> > PRESIDENT BUSH:
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> > Please CC to: [log in to unmask]
> > 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 progressive
> > nations and tackle 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  [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
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