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Here's an open letter to world leaders with a naked truth about climate change: their efforts so far have barely made a difference.
Dear Obama, Merkel, Jintao, Lula, Sarkozy, Zapatero, Tusk etc.
As you will
have no doubt witnessed this year - tens of thousands of people are willing to
go to some extraordinary lengths for climate action. Many are even willing to take
their clothes off!
700 people have
stripped naked in a vineyard to warn the world of the effects climate
change will have on French wine. And a while ago, hundreds of others
were prepared to pose nude on a glacier in Switzerland.
Around
the world, people have made time to march, dance, create artwork, chain
themselves overnight to coal installations in Svalbard, lock on to
equipment in Canada's tar sands, get arrested for suspending a message
to the G20 from a bridge in Pittsburgh, spend four months at sea away
from their families to show again that the Arctic is melting, document
glacial melt at the top of the Himalayas and carved a hundred ice
statues in Beijing to show the threat to Asia's water supply.
Given
the lengths to which we're all willing to go to call for action on
this issue, do you think you could make some time in your busy calendar
this December to show up in Copenhagen?
To date, only Gordon Brown (UK), Donald Tusk (Poland) and Jan Peter Balkenende (the Netherlands) have said they will attend.
We're
not asking you to take your clothes off in Copenhagen - but we do
expect you to be there - to sign a fair, ambitious and binding deal to
save the future of our planet. A half-decent climate treaty simply wont do.
Thank you,
Greenpeace
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