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Yikes!, a free paperless journal, invites our international collaborators to join in sharing background information, challenges and thinkpieces which offer different perspective on the "pattern break" approach to laying the base for more sustainable transportation systems, including "car free" and "less car" projects and approaches of a huge range of types and variations.
Today, 28 April 2001.
The Commons, Paris. |
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Tell the Bush Administration to Stop Global Warming Now!
The International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) , a non-profit, bi-partisan organization committed to providing the public with full assessments and analyses of technological impacts on society, invites you to join their campaign to put pressure on the US government to do its part to stop global warming. Click here for details. (The text of the proposed letter which you can edit before sending to main US decision makers on this follows.)
A full ECFD Profile for the International Center for Technology Assessment and its continuing Campaign on Auto Pollution is available here.
Proposed text:
I am writing to express my strong support for action to halt the critical problem of global warming. Consensus among the scientific community is that global warming pollutants are contributing to a rapid increase in the earth's average temperature. This change in our climate poses direct and severe threats to human health by increasing the occurrence of infectious diseases, heat stress, extreme weather events, and dangerous levels of localized air pollution.
Given the impacts associated with global warming, it is crucial that EPA address automobiles' contribution to this problem. Cars and trucks account for the release of nearly 20% of all U.S. global warming pollutants, and these emissions have increased by over 14% since 1990. Therefore, I urge the EPA to determine that CO2 and other greenhouse gases are pollutants under the Clean Air Act; and that the agency use its legal authority to regulate these emissions from new motor vehicles.
I encourage you to address the problem of global warming before it is too late. By taking these steps you will protect the health and welfare of millions of Americans and ensure the well being of our future generations.
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Not everybody likes car free days. Not everybody equally loves public interest or ecology action groups. And not everybody likes it when anybody or anything tries to get between them and their cars. Like it or not, we have to be prepared to listen to these views as well. They after all have to become part of the solution, not of the problem.
The Other Side is our open tribunal for those who wish to make their points of view heard too. Have anything good that you can share with us that expresses these concerns and positions? This is the place to share it with us.
Have you comments, corrections or suggestions on any of the Today pieces given here. Suggestions for additional topics? An idea for a joint article or one that you would like to prepare yourself? Other media ideas? A cartoon? A song? A play? An web opera? This is the place to let us know. Diversity rules!
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