Dec 12 - save the date, save the planet

by Avaaz on Monday, November 30, 2009 at 10:26am ·

Dear friends,

In just weeks our leaders will meet in Copenhagen to negotiate a global climate agreement -- without doubt the most important international treaty of our time.

But, even now, governments are backsliding on fair, ambitious and binding action that could stop climate catastrophe.

In September we sounded the alarm together across the world with our spectacular Global Wake Up Call and showed the strength of the public demand for climate action. Now it's time to double our efforts. That's why on December 12 we're holding the largest ever global day of climate action, with vigils in every corner of the earth.

Holding a vigil is fun, effective and easy. Simply click below to register a local event and check out our simple 5-step organising guide. Avaaz members nearby will be invited to attend.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/real_deal_hosts/50.php

Thousands of vigils across the world drawing attention to those already suffering climate disaster, right in the middle of the Copenhagen negotiations, will send a powerful political message that communities the world over won't accept greenwash -- we want a real climate deal.

Holding a vigil is very simple and the more of us that sign up to hold local actions, the more the media will see our global force and the more we will be heard at this crucial meeting -- a video of our vigils will be shown to negotiators at the meeting center in Copenhagen.

Simply click below to register an event:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/real_deal_hosts/50.php

Thanks for being part of this,

Ricken, Ben, Taren, Iain, Sam, Alice, Milena, Paul, Luis, Julius, Lisa and the whole Avaaz team.

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  • Good Vibrations, Teresa Chai, Pável Escareño Torres and 149 others like this.
    • Adam Siddhartha
      Baloney! The planet doesn't need saving!
      We do!
      I have a question for you....

      Who will be the recipients and managers of a global carbon tax? The biggest 'out there theory' that I can see and have seen since the onset of this carbon taxi...ng madness is THE THEORY THAT WE SHOULD AND CAN TRUST THE GOVERNMENTS AND THE CONTROLLING BANKERS AND INDUSTRIALISTS TO DO WHAT THEY COULD ALREADY BE DOING, WITH SUCH A CARBON TAX?
      HAVE THEY NOT PROVEN TO US, AGAIN, AND AGAIN AND AGAIN....YES, YOU GUESSED IT...AND AGAIN....THAT THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO DO THE RIGHT THING....AND, THEY ALREADY HAVE ALL OF OUR MONEY. THEY NEED MONEY THE LEAST OF ANY OF US.
      THEY HAVE ALL THE MONEY THEY NEED TO INVEST IN AND IMPLEMENT CLEANER ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES WORLDWIDE IF THEY WANT TO. SHELL OIL ALREADY IS A MASSIVE HOLDER OF SOLAR INVESTMENTS. ... See More
      WE DON'T NEED TO BECOME SLAVES AND SERFS WITH A GLOBAL CARBON TAX THAT WILL STARVE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF THE POOREST PEOPLE, FOR THE faint HOPE THAT OUR CARBON TAX DOLLARS WILL ENABLE THE "ENRON' ESQUE, GORE AND BUSHITE OLLIGARCHS" TO DO WHAT THEY COULD HAVE DONE ANYTIME IN THE LAST 50 YEARS OR SO!!!
      They have pulled the wool over our eyes. The "solution" to the threat is far worse than the threat....Just like H1NI, just like terrorism, etc, etc. It's all packaged the same!
      How can you trust these people. Really?
      We think that we are going to control the climate by paying taxes to the control freak elites on everything we do, eat, make, travel to..etc, etc.

      Of course the climate is changing....it's us that needs to change with it, not pretend that we have the power to reverse the effects of natural warming and cooling cycles, solar effects, el nino, el nina, and our impacts as well.etc.

      Yes, we are causing some changes, very minor changes in the grand scale. We won't change it by enslaving ourselves with yet another tax. A tax that will govern the very basis of life on earth! We are giving away our power of adaptation to greedy control freaks who have proven that they do not act with love or consciousness in their 'business ventures'.

      We should be talking about protecting bio-diversity, human dignity, the oceans and rivers and farmlands, not this myopic illusion that reducing CO2 to the exclusion of most other considerations is the panacea of hope for humanity. CO2 follows temp rises, not the other way around. Al Gore and his hired scientists have been caught cooking the climate books many times in recent history and this is yet another reason we can't trust them! Doesn't that make sense?

      Of course we are experiencing a slight change in climate, that is not the question. The question is, do we commit planetary suicide in fear of it?

      Back when the vikings were sailing from Europe to Iceland and Greenland and the Arctic & Americas during the Medievel period when it was warmer than it is now...a lot warmer or they would not have been able to do that dressed in metal hats and sheepskins in little open boats....do you think they were all concerned about global warming?

      Changes present both challenges and opportunities! Let's not give away our opportunity to solve our own problems to the population reduction and eugenics nazis who run the world.

      Their days are coming to an end, they know it, they are scared, this is their last attempt to prevent humanity from washing over them and ushering in the new era of peace on earth that is coming....soon! check out what the mayan leader has to say about this www.shiftoftheages.com

      I have awakened to this truth, as I see it, and I gotta share
      it. I have great respect for the work that people like you do. The work that so many do is with the best of intentions, but, as Alan Greenspan admitted, "We thought we were doing the right thing with our fiscal polices, but WE WERE WRONG"! I firmly believe that the millions of people around the world working to 'solve the climate crisis' are good and intelligent people, but we have collectively lost sight of the fact that this tax is about world control of everything, not the preservation of human life, dignity and bio-diversity, as we may think it is.

      The problem is who you are aligned with. They are criminals!

      Let's not put our future in the hands of people like this anymore?
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      November 30, 2009 at 10:44am
    • Dan Corns
      ‎"Thousands of vigils across the world drawing attention to those already suffering climate disaster, right in the middle of the Copenhagen negotiations, will send a powerful political message that communities the world over won't accept gr...eenwash"

      No they really won't. Come on Avaaz, hard work is needed in writing to your democratically elected representatives and lobbying them in their place of work.

      A vigil is really just a lame and naive 'studenty' idea. Please direct your resources and members to more concrete actions.

      Is holding a Vigil really as a result of acting on the best research and advice you have in affecting change? I hope not.
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      November 30, 2009 at 10:45am
    • Tucapel Pablo Carvajal Woodruffe I think avaaz needs to get it's thinkers back into the think tank and take a look at things like, The Zeitgeist Projects or venus projects...so on, only when we realise that it's not governments but technology that will save us that we stand a chance of surviving...but as many of these wise men said...the change must first begin in us!!!!!
      November 30, 2009 at 10:59am
    • Ph Ars
      I agree that change first begins with Yourself. I agree that government cannot be trusted. This is why I enjoy Avaaz so much: it encourages Everyone's participation, it is a forum for Argumentation. This Crisis - named such without exaggera...tion - is an opportunity to truly claim our inheritance of Democracy, speak our minds to the degree that we know and understand them, learn from the mistakes made individually and collectively, and participate in the growth of Our Culture. By remaining separate, our fears will consume the very things which sustain us.See More
      November 30, 2009 at 11:13am
    • Dave O'Donnell
      Well said Adam. 33k scientist now say this is not man made, but that still does not stop the cooperate, taxing money making machine from full speed forward.
      Due to the earth cooling since 2002, the arctic ice growing and the US Senate Minor...ity Report on climate change featured 650 scientists challenging the alleged ‘consensus’ that global warming has been caused by human-generated carbon emissions, Bill Clinton now has said that...wait for it....'it cools before it gets hotter again'. Where is the science for this!!
      What was the cause of the medival warm period where wine was grown in the UK. What abt the rise in temperature n melt of pole caps on VENUS, MARS, SATURN, ETC that can in no way be put down to carbon emisons.
      This industry has become to big. Multi million dollar. To many jobs now have been created n hang on this theory bar independant (non gov funded) science.
      I support Avaaz on most of their causes but when will this crazyness stop.
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      November 30, 2009 at 11:19am
    • Luca Mota il 12 /12 , sono nato !!??
      November 30, 2009 at 11:21am
    • Anthony Field
      Capatilism and rampant consumerism is where we have now :(
      It needs a few tweaks... putting a price on carbon and anything that "costs" the environment is a simple and good start... it will level the playing field.
      Agreeing to ALL reduce ...our emissions is also a very good thing to do.
      It might not be a perfect solution, but we need to act NOW and do something.... lets call for strong action from our governments, while we think about further improvements...
      If we do nothing Coperations and capatilsm with just give us more of what we have now.... :((
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      November 30, 2009 at 11:26am
    • ELiahi Priest Agreed. Meanwwhile we had cars that could hover above the ground in the 50's - ZeroPoint Energy - They know it... and yet still want to keep us all in the stoneage...
      Copenhagen is a lark, so are most of the World Leaders..
      November 30, 2009 at 11:47am
    • David Grace
      perhaps the NWO is actually conspiring to have people not believe what is actually happening. After all the corps are the villains in global warming, and the ones that have profited most from poisoning our world for private profit. They are... the ones who would most profit in the short term if nothing is done

      There is no doubt that there are major changes to our environment, and the cooling can only be seen, if you start at the warmest year on record (1998), and then look out from that. If you look at the longer record, there is no doubt there is a warming trend, and it started at the industrial revolution. The real world is following the trends predicted by the scientists who support climate change. The sceptics don't have real world phenomena to point to to support their case - and when they do try to find some, its easily debunked.
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      November 30, 2009 at 12:02pm
    • Jean Kilroy Every day is earth day----And whether we are here or there--each & every one of us makes a difference in what we do---we ultimately make the choices of whether to be on a constant vigil or not... with every move, action, choice... where less is more.
      November 30, 2009 at 1:12pm
    • Josh Wilson Seriously, you guys need to stop focussing on your politically correct issue of 'stopping climate change' (which is the greatest scientific scandal of the 21st century) and start focussing on real issues. It's climategate.
      November 30, 2009 at 1:25pm
    • Colin Ward
      No, Joshua are wrong on this. If you want to hear good, honest scientists discussing their research try this link. http://www.realclimate.org/

      You know what the police say when they are investigating a crime? Follow the money. Research gra...nts are worth a bit, I accept that, but the real money is in oil and coal. There is a real threat to the planet and the people who make money from burning fossil fuels are spending millions to try and make people think it's all ok. And they are doing that because actually they don't care if things get tough. They believe they will have enough cash to live where they want and protect themselves from any fall out. Are you one of those people? Do you have the money to protect yourself? If you don't then these people are taking you for one big ride.See More
      November 30, 2009 at 1:32pm
    • Rohnda Maree And Joshua - what do you think are the 'real' issues? very curious and interested!
      November 30, 2009 at 1:38pm
    • Ralph Westera
      Joshua should read more carefully, learn to think, and distinguish between global warming and climate change. This confusion of terms has been a very successful disinformation strategy for over 35 years. There is little time left for such s...tupidity.
      Global warming and cooling has always been 'climate change's idiot brother. If you want to speculate about less ambiguous constraints, I would suggest an intelligent examination of ocean acidity and the increase in atmospheric moisture. These two features alone suggest that Copenhagen will accomplish nothing in time to prevent catastrophic outcomes over the very near future. The 2005 resource collapse that the western economies have yet to acknowledge is the one hopeful sign that human activity will precipitously decline over the coming few years. Perhaps a few real human beings will actually survive after all.
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      November 30, 2009 at 2:47pm
    • Ian Gilfillan
      Don't worry guys, keep on treating the atmosphere like a sewer, it really has no effect. It's sad that well-meaning people buy into fraudulent internet petitions and the like, and actually don't look into the data. To any real scientists th...ey look like complete idiots, but the general public has fallen for the oil and coal propaganda.

      All of these "arguments" are completely debunked in scientific literature, but people keep on parroting them.

      Take Dave's comment. He can't make up his mind whether it's cooling or warming, but he's convinced it all a scam :)

      Or Adam shouting in caps about tax. There are better and worse solutions, but the oil and coal industry and their lackeys in the US right and the must be loving their success and people's gullibility.
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      November 30, 2009 at 4:41pm
    • M. Renee Fulsom
      How about stopping greed - corruption and all the pollution. That might be more doable - but I am not holding my breath on that any time soon.

      THOSE are some of real issues at hand and could solve a lot of the problems of world hunger and... homelessness. But that also requires the self reflection of those that don't want to give up all their power/control. And every ego indulgence that comes along.

      All the non-sense - science of 'global warming' is just the feel good distraction to the real goal here. 'feel good' in that hey this something I can do to effect change. Get the people involved - so that they will give up their money - their freedoms. No war needed to do that!

      It also shows the power of marketing - the power of distractions - don't look here, while I steal your wallet. Look here at this this is so much more important! The sky is falling! Only YOU can fix it!

      Some people should go back to school - study ice ages for example. Water frozen, oceans go down - ice melts, oceans go up. People moved around....not too complicated a science here.

      Climate change IS a natural part of this planets geological cycle - mankind does not have the power to stop that - not unless they blow the whole thing up. Which is another possibility of course.

      Considering the sociopaths in power more likely than not that is the next plan anyway. They always kill what they don't understand and can't control.
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      November 30, 2009 at 5:05pm
    • Ralph Westera Plant trees, plant a lot of trees, and plant trees as though your lives depended on it. Waiting for governments and bankers and consumers to come to their senses is a waste of time and piece of mind. The Dollar is dead if you want it.
      November 30, 2009 at 6:36pm
    • Namrata Sharma
      Politicians need to do their bit and particulary stop the greed of consuming resources... both natural and human made...and gain power over land, water and air. The environmental degradation is also very related to patriacrchic fashion of c...ontrolling power. Copenhagen will be successful if woprld leaders look into how the world is being destroyed by the greed of power and control. On thge other hand each human on earth should decrease their own person greed for materialistic satisfactionSee More
      November 30, 2009 at 8:08pm
    • Sara Gardner Folk of the land must let the politicians know their thoughts and choices because the petrochemical industries are certainly getting their choices heard. Doing nothing is still an active choice but when considering the consequences of inaction is that what we would really choose?
      November 30, 2009 at 11:29pm
    • Vaughan Montgomery
      just a shame the governments don't really listen to the ordinary working class people unless it's in their best interest to, we all know Free Energy is possible, straight out the environment, free & reusable energy. hell Tesla proved it in ...the 1890's let alone now we in the 21st century. Electricity from Water??? easy GCSE grade chemistry, electrolysis of water, seperates the atoms into Hydrogen & Oxygen, and the only biproduct of it being Water again.. or what about edwin grays theories & Lindemann's research.. it is possible, but why doesn't the government throw money into it? well that answer is simple.

      PROFIT!!! the energy companies ain't gonna let anyone build something on a large scale that could solve all the worlds energy needs if they can't make profit from it!!! it's simple as..

      the world is being held back because of corporations & industry extortion & controlling in order to make them huge profits.

      we tell 3rd world countries they can't build fossil fuel power stations, yet we can't even afford not to have fossil fuel power stations in the rich developed worlds, so how on earth do we expect 3rd world countries to invest in the more expensive power stations and get out of their developing status?? in all honesty, they can't, so they will always be a developing country.. and that's what the world government wants, if those countries become developed the developed countries will inevitably lose some profits & business!!! & power & control..
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      December 1, 2009 at 3:37am
    • Elsa Lee Fair comment re the water into free energy argument although it is always worth bearing in mind that there would result a crisis of employment.... not necessarily accounted for by not having to pay energy bills!
      December 1, 2009 at 3:49am
    • Zafer Ozsoy
      Discussing real-life opportunities can only help us overcome the current hell of a situation we have in the world with destructive methods we use obtaining energy for daily use. Free energy is a misuse of the term, we demand CLEAN energy, t...his will create more jobs and a healthier environment. We have to stop burning coal for electricity and bring our people to the surface of the earth where they can manufacture the necessary equipment and operate these systems. The answer is right there in front of us if we just keep an open mind and open eye for it.See More
      December 1, 2009 at 5:04am
    • Tucapel Pablo Carvajal Woodruffe
      I'm sure like myself you've all heard of, read about, or seen the footage from ZEITGEIST but if you haven't and you really feel like making a change then take a look, just google it, We live in a monetary system and therefor we really canno...t trust or put faith in the fear mongering news reports!! or our governments!! they are all controlled/financed by the same corporations.
      If we stop using their banks and businesses to lean on then they will hold no monopoly over anyone or anything,...and due to this we will eventually become equal..sharing instead of barttering, giving instead of taking.
      let the scientists and technicians show us the world we could have if these corporate industries and corrupt governments are stopped forcing our hand to things that are bad for us, we have so much clean energy we could power the world forever without damaging our climate or natural resources...politicians are not taught how to do this nor are they likely to change as they get put into power through their campaigns..paid for by the corporations and are "gently nudged" to pass laws that just happen to benefit these organisations but seem to hold a monopoly over the rest of the population...these are not my ideas but after seeing zeitgeist for the first time i was angry and felt like i'd been asleep for so long but our entire upbringing is designed to keep us in a monetary system, and as long as this is the case things will never change because it forces us into debt making us slaves to it's system, we don't benefit from money at all.....Zeitgeist...look it up
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      December 1, 2009 at 7:12am
    • Silvia Narvaez Al respecto recomiendo ver la película que hizo Walt Disney y la National Geographic que se llama "TIERRA".
      Es un documental que dura 150 minutos y se puede ver gratuitamente en www.peliculasid.com
      Es imposible mantenerse ageno al problema que nos convoca, ya que son realidades tomadas directamente del planeta cuya realización tomó dos años.
      December 3, 2009 at 9:21am
    • David Spurgeon
      Global warming revealed to be the hoax we always knew it was
      It would appear that environmentalists' chickens are coming home to roost. Thanks to an intrepid computer-hacker, we now know that "global warming" or the new "climate change" has... been revealed to be the hoax we always knew it was. The intercepted e-mails reveal that the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University, the repository for UN climate data, has done everything it could to cover up the fact that the earth has been cooling since 1998 and that early data, since destroyed, was largely made up. This has all been done in an effort to raise taxes on a dumbed-down populace as well as to eventually impose world governance on us all. Hopefully, this will show the lie that is "green energy," which will never replace that which we have in abundance, i.e, oil, coal and natural gas. I have always felt that it takes a special kind of stupidity not to use the natural resources God has provided for us. Hundreds of vehicles are still on our roads that run on gasoline, and it will always be so, until something better is invented. Natural gas and coal are relatively inexpensive fuel sources as well. With more coverage, people will begin to realize the fraud that has been perpetrated on us by such "experts" as Al Gore, who should cleanse his soul by returning his Nobel Peace Prize. Don't hold your breath.

      Another lie that should be universally challenged is the one written about by Rachel Carson in her book "Silent Spring." She claimed that DDT was dangerous to humans and should not be used for pest eradication. Since DDT was banned more than 30 years ago, millions have died from the bites of malaria-infected mosquitoes. DDT was always the most effective pesticide ever invented and worked well until it was banned by the influence of her writings. Perhaps if the light of truth is shown on this and other liberal lies, things may gradually get back to a time of simpler, honest living.

      RICHARD METZ
      Sumter
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      December 3, 2009 at 4:03pm
    • Felicity Fane Nothing like being a vigil Auntie instead of a vigilante! LOL
      December 4, 2009 at 1:41am
    • Jean-Pierre Couavoux la TERRE ,notre seule Maison !
      Nous en sommes tous résponsable.....!!!!!
      Alors "Allumons Nos Bougies" (le 12/12/2009)
      PAIX ,HARMONIE,AMOUR........
      December 5, 2009 at 9:26am