We all know that Australia is in a drought.We have to do something to stop these major banks and corporations coming to our country and plundering all our natural resources.
Please read this and l hope that you will do this...
For your children and your childrens children.
Remember we do not own this land we are caretakers for our grandchildren.
Make Citi Call You!
Dear Friend,
Citi and Bank of America certainly heard from RAN last week.
Thousands of activists took to the streets during RAN's National Day of Action Against Coal Finance. We held hundreds of actions, rallies and protests from one coast to the other -- and in plenty of places in between. Every action had one clear message for both banks: stop funding coal, start funding renewable energy!
But I have a question for you: What would you say about coal if Citi called you?
Would you ask them why they are the biggest backer of coal, the single biggest cause of global warming?
http://ran.org/get_involved/
2007-11-20 06:21:02 · 5 answers · asked by greeneyedaussie22 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
I fail to see the relationship between global warming and the use of coal. The biggest influence on global warming is a nuclear fusion engine some 100 million-plus kilometers out in space called the Sun. NASA even reports melting of the polar ice cap on Mars. A planet which has not one single fossil-fueled power plant.
Any listener to short wave radio over the past two decades knows quite well that the frequency and intensity of solar activity has increased. I can also recall Radio Australia putting the lie to the nonsense of my wife's hair spray and my home's air conditioning causing erosion of the ozone layer over the Ross Sea. Two scientists at the University of Perth showed that the CFCs which do attack the ozone are lofted that far into the atmosphere by volcanic activity. That makes sense because CFCs are heavier than air and need that sort of propulsion to defy gravity.
I also cannot exhibit the colossal arrogance that say humans can "save the planet" When it comes to Mother Earth, we humans are the fleas on the back of the dog.
2007-11-20 13:19:47 · answer #1 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree it is not good, but, although ignorant of Australian policy & politics, here in the States, the government can deny access to those nature refuges. I assume your government is allowing the companies to come in and do that.
From the corporate point of view, coal reserves are much needed in this time of high oil prices. There is an all out war-bid for it all around the globe. I'm sure this is why your government complies.
I think the real source of activism should be renewable energy; or more straight to the point, propagating nuclear. Tell your friends, community, and city/State to stop driving and to protest for nuclear energy; only then, when the demand goes down for oil, the demand will go down for coal.
Coal pollutes the air something nasty too! Whew!
Good luck!
2007-11-20 07:53:40 · answer #2 · answered by jennifer_weisz 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Coal is the biggest cause of global warming? Where did you get THAT information? Don't you know that global warming is cyclical and is not being caused by man? Some of our ski resorts are reporting the most snow fall since 1956. Where is the warming there? There is certainly nothing wrong with being environmentally aware, everyone should be. But extreme environmentalists are totally off their rocker.
2007-11-20 06:32:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That rant might be the biggest cause of global warming.
2007-11-20 06:24:47 · answer #4 · answered by One eyed pirate 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ciao
2007-11-20 06:23:37 · answer #5 · answered by petermitic10 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋