50 activists, Greenpeace USA chief, arrested in global warming protest

Washington, DC, United States — 50 activists, including Greenpeace USA Executive Director John Passacantando, were arrested in front of the US State Department building in Washington DC for participating in a global warming protest.

They were out in full force calling upon the US to sign the Kyoto protocol, and to protest President Bush’s diversion of effort: a polluter’s summit he called for representatives of the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, India, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Australia, Indonesia and South Africa.

What’s the goal of this meeting? To persuade other countries to undermine the United Nations negotiations and substitute real, binding measures with voluntary pledges.

Join Kyoto

If George Bush was serious about solving global warming, he would join with 175 other countries, and sign the Kyoto Protocol.

The countries meeting in Washington account for over 90% of emissions worldwide. Real action by those gathered in Washington could deliver massive cuts in emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. But this would require binding, mandatory targets for industrialized countries, which the US rejects.

The Big Emitters meeting is a distraction from the valuable and constructive work within the United Nations leading up to the climate talks in Bali, Indonesia. What the world needs is a strengthened Kyoto Protocol and a “little less conversation, and a little more action.”

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Joe,

I’m shocked that the boys at Greenpeace don’t know that the US signed Kyoto way back in 1998, under Clinton/Gore. The Senate hasn’t ratified it; but Bush CAN’T sign it - it’s already been signed.

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Words of the Wise

“We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.” - Paul Watson, Co-Founder of Greenpeace, current Sierra Club board member

“Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planet…Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along. -David Graber, biologist, National Park Service

“If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” -Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

“To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem.”
-Lamont Cole, ecologist, Cornell University

“Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.” -Lyall Watson, biologist, author

“We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels.” -Carl Amery, co-founder German green movement

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring about?” - Maurice Strong, senior UN advisor, director of the Temple of Understanding

“I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.” - Maurice Strong

Hey, you’re not one of those oil lobbyists trying to censor & re-write the science, are you?

Here, let Jim Hansen set you straight.

http://biopact.com

for awhiile and you’ll see what I mean.

Of course, there are also brain-devouring ameoba which prefer warmer climates…

You know, I don’t like Glenn Beck much either, but there’s no need to be gratuitously insulting.