In this new year let’s get serious, I mean really serious, about the global climate emergency. This is truly an EMERGENCY – our planetary life support system is more than threatened – it is already in severe decline. The levels of CO2 and other global warming gases in the atmosphere are already too high, and we continue adding more. We can’t afford to add any more than is absolutely necessary, as many of the consequences are impossible to predict.

The amount of CO2 in our atmosphere will continue to increase, even if we are successful in slowing the rate of increase. As the frozen tundra melts, it is now releasing huge amounts of methane gas, one of the worst global warming gases, and increasing the rate of global warming. How much change in weather patterns can our farmland and food supply withstand?

To slow global warming, we need to immediately launch an all out national campaign to drastically reduce our use of carbon-based energy. We must act NOW with powerful energy conservation methods we already have at hand! We can create convenient, accessible mass transit systems with incentives for their use, extra incentives for weatherizing homes and installing the most efficient heating systems. We must not keep acting like lemmings ignoring the fatal path we are on.

Let’s tell Senators Wyden and Smith, and our Congressional Representatives to act responsibly right now – our children’s future is at stake. Let’s get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and declare war on global warming!