Reply #7: Letter to my town: one way to help spread the word

[RestoreGore]

This will be printed in my town paper this week and will reach over sixty thousand people. That is the impact ONE letter can have. You too can do this and reach thousands. You don't need to learn the slideshow to do it either. Just do it from your heart.
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We Have a Moral Obligation to Address the Climate Crisis

As of December 28, 2006, 353 mayors representing over 54 million Americans have accepted the challenge of The Mayor’s Initiative on Climate Change, with XXXX being one of those cities. However, I am not aware of what is being done in order for XXXX to comply with this initiative. Is there a department in the municipal government dealing with getting out information to the residents of this city regarding the affects of the climate crisis we are now seeing throughout this world? If not, there should be.

I also donated a copy of the important film, An Inconvenient Truth which brings out the truth of these affects and what we can do as citizens to address them to the Science Dept at XXXX High School last month. However, I have no idea if it will even be shown to the students as a whole by the XXXX Board of Education, and it should be. As a matter of fact, it is a moral imperative that this film be shown to the entire XXXX community free of charge in order to make them aware of exactly what our behavior is doing to alter our relationship with our planet, and how that will affect our future and especially the future of our children. I would be more than happy to provide my copy for that purpose.

There is no longer a debate that humans are causing climate change. It is a known scientific fact that the spewing of CO2 into our atmosphere (now at the rate of 70 million tons a day) and other gases such as methane is causing the rapid acceleration of glacier melt that we are seeing from the United States, to South America, to the Himalayas, to Africa, to New Zealand, to the Arctic and Greenland. Not only will this drastically change temperature, but also weather patterns, rainfall patterns, and global warming will increase because less ice at the top of the world soaks in more sun rather than reflecting the proper amount of infrared rays back to space to stabilize our climate. This will have catastrophic affects on our future if we do not work to reign in our rapacious use of fossil fuels.

The climate crisis is now also causing our oceans to become more acidic, which is bleaching our coral and killing necessary organisms that provide balance to that ecosystem, as well as plunging almost 35% of this world into more severe and sustained drought, which is leading to life threatening water and food shortages which are only predicted to intensify by 2025 if this is left unchecked. Locachara Island in India is the first casualty of rising seas and the Ayles ice shelf in the Arctic broke off 16 months ago and was the length of 11,000 football fields! Global warming is cited by scientists as the cause, and it is real. NASA, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the National Science Academy, the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, as well as other scientific organizations have all corroborated this and have been warning us about what we are doing to our planet by our own hand, as former Vice President Al Gore has also been doing for almost thirty years, which is related in his prescient movie An Inconvenient Truth.

We are now seeing those warnings that have not been heeded for the last thirty years coming full circle, and we cannot ignore them any longer. Therefore, I then call upon Mayor XXXXXXXX to publicly address this crucial issue and to provide the means of getting out information to the residents of XXXX regarding this crisis and what we can do in our own daily lives now to lesson our carbon impact on the world. It is the duty of our representatives to inform the people and provide a means for addressing problems. I hope to see that in the near future. Anyone reading this who would like more information on this can also go to: http://www.climatecrisis.net.

Thank you,
XXX XXXXX