Sign On to stop climate change
Home » Blog » Sophie Barclay » Sign On to stop climate changeTake a stand and Sign On because, as Lucy Lawless puts it, “There is no planet B.”
It’s taken far too long for people to acknowledge the validity of climate science.
It’s taken far too long for the issue to permeate the mainstream media, particularly when groups like Exxon Mobil continue to fund climate change deniers to confuse the public.
It’s taken far too long for people, politicians especially, to take this issue seriously.
Greenpeace has decided that enough is enough! It recently launched the Sign On campaign, to help New Zealanders send a clear message to Prime Minister John Key and the government that we are all sick and tired of waiting for action.
The Sign On campaign calls for a 40 percent cut in our greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, and asks that our political leaders do not let us down once again at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this year. We need them to know that there is no compromise, that if we don’t take action today we’re really going to regret it.
Bunny McDiarmid, the execute director of Greenpeace, has underlined the importance of the December Copenhgaen conference, and of showing support for a climate treaty that will drastically reduce greenhouse gases. “In the 25 years that I’ve worked in the environmental movement there has never been an issue that has demanded such an urgent response from all of humanity,” she says.
So join a host of celebrities—including actors Lucy Lawless, Keisha Castle-Hughes and Emily Barclay, world-renouned chef Peter Gordon, Huffer founders Dan Buckley and Steve Dunstan, The Warehouse owner Steven Tindall and climate scientist Jim Salinger—and over 47,000 Kiwis who have had enough!
