Page - July 13, 2009
Wednesday was a day to remember at Mount Rushmore. On the
morning of July 8th, 11 Greenpeace climbers hung a massive banner
measuring sixty-five feet high by thirty-five feet wide challenging
President Obama to be a leader on global warming. The banner read:
"America Honors Leaders, Not Politicians. Stop Global Warming."
The action coincided with the G8 conference in L'Aquila, Italy,
where President Obama is meeting with other world leaders to
discuss the global warming crisis in the lead-up to UN climate
treaty negotiations in Copenhagen this December. Preceding the
action, Greenpeace activists shut down five coal-fired
power plants in Italy calling attention to the collective
failure of leadership on global warming at the G8.
If President Obama wants to get his face on Mt Rushmore, he
needs to stop playing politics and live up to his campaign promise
of implementing science-based solutions to global warming.
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