Thousands of delegates have gathered in Montreal for the UN Conference on Climate Change, the largest climate change conference in history and the first meeting of the parties of the Kyoto Protocol. But the United States, which is responsible for about a quarter of the world's total emissions of greenhouse gases, has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol or take any meaningful action to stop global climate change.
The threats posed to our planet by global warming are terrifying. Over the next few decades, we can expect rising global temperatures, intensified hurricanes, an increase in floods, droughts, and wildfires, heat waves, the spread of infectious diseases, and species extinction. Plants will have to shift hundreds of miles away from the equator to adapt to rising temperatures. This will wreak havoc on rainforest ecosystems, which are already under pressure from increasing wildfires and severe weather.
The time to act is now! Please fax President Bush (below) and urge the US government -- for the good of our country, the planet, and succeeding generations -- to join the rest of the world in ratifying the Kyoto Protocol as a first step toward a commitment to change.
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Additional Ways to Take Action:
Call Your Representative and Senators and urge them to push for US ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121.
Click here to sign the People's Ratification of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty
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