Saturday, June 20, 2009

A Greenpeace initiative


I got this forward few days back thought it to be important to put in my blog. Plz visit http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/take_action/leaders-go-to-copenhagen-climate-summit for more. Don't forget to sign the petition...

President Barack Obama, United States of America
President Hu Jintao, People’s Republic of China
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, India
President Nicolas Sarkozy, France
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, United Kingdom
Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany

Dear leaders,

I call upon you, not as representatives of your countries, but as leaders of the world, to personally attend the United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen this December.

Decisions which will be made at this meeting will impact the lives of everyone alive today, and determine the shape of humanity’s future.

This is the world’s best chance to avoid runaway climate change.

You owe it to the world to attend, to set aside your national interests, to safeguard our future, and to do what you were elected to do: lead.

My request is simple: promise now to personally attend.

Post script: In context to the last blog, Mr. Ramesh have taken some stern steps with regards to illegal miners in Karnataka and he personally visited Corbett park, that definitely is a great start. This blogger is also enthused by his statement on need for "tiger ecosystem".