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CLIMATE EMERGENCY!!! And the U.S. Is doing what? President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo started formal process to withdraw from Paris Climate Agreement. On Nov 4, 2019, the United States submitted formal notification of its withdrawal to the United Nations. The withdrawal will take effect one year from delivery of the notification.
Why? “Because of the unfair economic burden imposed on American workers, businesses, and taxpayers by U.S. pledges made under the Agreement” says Pompeo.
PLEASE PANIC! CLIMATE CHANGE WILL KILL US ALL!!!
Over 1 million species are threatened by extinction according to the 2019 UN Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (link needed). Everyone is stressed and competing for resources.
NOW...we're dealing with COVID-19 pandemic! I ask we all take recommended precautions for the SAFETY of ALL...no matter what our personal thoughts and beliefs are about it!
Be aware that more than 11,000 scientists in 153 nations have endorsed a newly published statement on climate change in Bioscience— and it’s extremely gloomy.
The statement published 05 November 2019 in the journal BioScience, includes decades worth of hard data and scientific analysis on climate trends to support the authors’ claims. It also includes a slew of concrete actions humanity could take to address climate change, from replacing fossil fuels with renewables to reducing meat consumption.
CLIMATE ACTION NOW!!! EVERY ACTION COUNTS! “The climate crisis has arrived and is accelerating faster than most scientists expected,” the authors wrote. “It is more severe than anticipated, threatening natural ecosystems and the fate of humanity.”
Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the graphical indicators presented below, we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.
40 years ago, scientists from 50 nations met at the First World Climate Conference (in Geneva 1979) and agreed that alarming trends for climate change made it urgently necessary to act. Since then, similar alarms have been made through the 1992 Rio Summit, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and the 2015 Paris Agreement, as well as scores of other global assemblies and scientists’ explicit warnings of insufficient progress (Ripple et al., BioScience 67: 1026-1028 2017). Yet greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are still rapidly rising, with increasingly damaging effects on the Earth's climate. An immense increase of scale in endeavors to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis (IPCC 2018: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2018. Global Warming of 1.5 deg C. An IPCC Special Report).
Global Climate week of Sept 20-17, 2019, marked a week of “climate action” bringing us together to act on behalf of our World. Many of us realized the peril and the challenges back in the 1970’s and before. The Industrial Age has NOT been kind to our Planet, nor to many of Its People. Too few of us have and are walking this Earth in a sacred manner of harmlessness and kindness.
Over the years, most of the environmental and ecology presentations and discussions were and still mostly continue to be about science, technologies, politics and economics. In 2013, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth was published with the understanding there is a spiritual dimension to our climate crisis.
AND in the Spring of 2015, Pope Francis called the Catholic Community to action by publishing his compelling and remarkable document Laudato Si; ON Care for Our Common Home in which he calls for us all to see that the “unprecedented destruction of ecosystems” is rooted in urgent spiritual and moral questions, and requires a spiritual and moral response.
Our Mother Earth cries out for Us because of the harm inflicted upon her. This is a cry we can and now must hear, and respond to. The suffering of our Earth is also the suffering of the poor who bear most of the burden. Pope Francis asks us to “…hear both the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor…” The Climate Scientists and Climate Activists and Earth Stewards ask for ACTION NOW!!!
Pope Francis’s patron saint St. Francis of Assissi loved and protected creation and his life is an example of Lover for ALL of God’s creations.
Mitigating and adapting to climate change while honoring the diversity of humans AND ALL Life entails major transformations in the ways our global society functions and interacts with natural ecosystems.
THANK YOU for YOUR Efforts and Actions in the Name of Good for Life and Planet!
REFERENCES
The United Nations World Charter for Nature adopted in 1983 proclaims five "Principles of conservation by which all human conduct affecting nature is to be guided and judged"
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
“Addressing climate change is no longer about ensuring a better future for coming generations. It is about the survival of humanity. It is imperative that everyone takes immediate action to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in all ways possible. And when reducing is not possible for any reason, we must at least commit to compensate emissions with credible carbon credits to encourage further emission reductions,” said Niclas Svenningsen, Manager of Global Climate Action, UN Climate Change secretariat.
Why? “Because of the unfair economic burden imposed on American workers, businesses, and taxpayers by U.S. pledges made under the Agreement” says Pompeo.
PLEASE PANIC! CLIMATE CHANGE WILL KILL US ALL!!!
Over 1 million species are threatened by extinction according to the 2019 UN Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (link needed). Everyone is stressed and competing for resources.
NOW...we're dealing with COVID-19 pandemic! I ask we all take recommended precautions for the SAFETY of ALL...no matter what our personal thoughts and beliefs are about it!
Be aware that more than 11,000 scientists in 153 nations have endorsed a newly published statement on climate change in Bioscience— and it’s extremely gloomy.
The statement published 05 November 2019 in the journal BioScience, includes decades worth of hard data and scientific analysis on climate trends to support the authors’ claims. It also includes a slew of concrete actions humanity could take to address climate change, from replacing fossil fuels with renewables to reducing meat consumption.
CLIMATE ACTION NOW!!! EVERY ACTION COUNTS! “The climate crisis has arrived and is accelerating faster than most scientists expected,” the authors wrote. “It is more severe than anticipated, threatening natural ecosystems and the fate of humanity.”
Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the graphical indicators presented below, we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.
40 years ago, scientists from 50 nations met at the First World Climate Conference (in Geneva 1979) and agreed that alarming trends for climate change made it urgently necessary to act. Since then, similar alarms have been made through the 1992 Rio Summit, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and the 2015 Paris Agreement, as well as scores of other global assemblies and scientists’ explicit warnings of insufficient progress (Ripple et al., BioScience 67: 1026-1028 2017). Yet greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are still rapidly rising, with increasingly damaging effects on the Earth's climate. An immense increase of scale in endeavors to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis (IPCC 2018: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2018. Global Warming of 1.5 deg C. An IPCC Special Report).
Global Climate week of Sept 20-17, 2019, marked a week of “climate action” bringing us together to act on behalf of our World. Many of us realized the peril and the challenges back in the 1970’s and before. The Industrial Age has NOT been kind to our Planet, nor to many of Its People. Too few of us have and are walking this Earth in a sacred manner of harmlessness and kindness.
Over the years, most of the environmental and ecology presentations and discussions were and still mostly continue to be about science, technologies, politics and economics. In 2013, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth was published with the understanding there is a spiritual dimension to our climate crisis.
AND in the Spring of 2015, Pope Francis called the Catholic Community to action by publishing his compelling and remarkable document Laudato Si; ON Care for Our Common Home in which he calls for us all to see that the “unprecedented destruction of ecosystems” is rooted in urgent spiritual and moral questions, and requires a spiritual and moral response.
Our Mother Earth cries out for Us because of the harm inflicted upon her. This is a cry we can and now must hear, and respond to. The suffering of our Earth is also the suffering of the poor who bear most of the burden. Pope Francis asks us to “…hear both the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor…” The Climate Scientists and Climate Activists and Earth Stewards ask for ACTION NOW!!!
Pope Francis’s patron saint St. Francis of Assissi loved and protected creation and his life is an example of Lover for ALL of God’s creations.
Mitigating and adapting to climate change while honoring the diversity of humans AND ALL Life entails major transformations in the ways our global society functions and interacts with natural ecosystems.
THANK YOU for YOUR Efforts and Actions in the Name of Good for Life and Planet!
REFERENCES
The United Nations World Charter for Nature adopted in 1983 proclaims five "Principles of conservation by which all human conduct affecting nature is to be guided and judged"
- Nature shall be respected and its essential processes shall not be impaired.
- The genetic viability on the earth shall not be compromised; the population levels of all life forms, wild and domesticated, must be at least sufficient for their survival, and to this end necessary habitats shall be safeguarded.
- All areas of the earth, both land and sea, shall be subject to the principles of conservation; special protection shall be given to unique areas, to representative samples of all the different types of ecosystems and to the habitats of rare or endangered species.
- Ecosystems and organisms, as well as the land, marine, and atmospheric resources that are utilized by man, shall be managed to achieve and maintain optimum sustainable productivity, but not in such a way as to endanger the integrity of those other ecosystems or species with which they coexist.
- Nature shall be secured against degradation caused by warfare or other hostile activities.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
“Addressing climate change is no longer about ensuring a better future for coming generations. It is about the survival of humanity. It is imperative that everyone takes immediate action to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in all ways possible. And when reducing is not possible for any reason, we must at least commit to compensate emissions with credible carbon credits to encourage further emission reductions,” said Niclas Svenningsen, Manager of Global Climate Action, UN Climate Change secretariat.