With three days to go, the crucial Copenhagen summit is failing. Tomorrow, the world's leaders arrive for an unprecedented 60 hours of direct negotiations. Experts agree that without a tidal wave of public pressure for a deal, the summit will not stop catastrophic global warming of 2 degrees.
Click the link to sign the petition for a real deal in Copenhagen -- the campaign already has a staggering 11 million supporters.
Petition to world leaders:
We call on our leaders to go to Copenhagen and sign a global climate treaty that is:
AMBITIOUS: enough to leave a planet safe for us all.
FAIR: for the poorest countries that did not cause climate change but are suffering most from it.
BINDING: with real targets that can be legally monitored and enforced.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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11 million signatures, not bad, but there are 6,692,030,277 people in this world. Besides making me feel better, what good will signing this petition do? Will it have a fraction of the effect that lobbyists from ExxonMobil will have on these talks? I just did something better - I turned down the central heat, put on another woollie, and I won't drive into Poole today.
Signing petitions is a symbolic gesture. If you think there is a problem, take direct personal action that helps solve it. Cut down your energy use by 10%. Travel less. Recycle. Get your family to follow suit. Then your employer. Far better than signing petitions. If you sign it without cutting your energy use, isn't that hypocritical?
Anyway, our leaders will bow to economic interests before this problem gets the attention it needs. And if the science is right. I have seen enough to know that petitions are palliatives. Actions are not.
CAUTION:
Avaaz.org was co-founded by Res Publica, a global civic advocacy group, and Moveon.org.
MoveOn.org is an American non-profit progressive, liberal public policy advocacy group and political action committee which has raised millions of dollars for candidates of the Democratic Party in the United States. Formed in response to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, it has been cited in some accounts as a factor which helped propel the Democratic Party to power in the 2006 midterm elections.
MoveOn.org is a political action committee, and not a environmental one.
If you sign this petition your name will be added to their database.
Just so you know. If you are so inclined to care about this subject, why not back Friends of the Earth instead? They actually DO things for the environment!
Another con to extort tax money. Its failing because its a farce!
I was so annoyed to read the half page recycling advert in the Advertiser from PDC today. So you can again put out an extra bag at Christmas. So how does that help recycling? And with every second home and rental flat occupied, if they can do that at Christmas why not all year?
Also driving past the Conservative Club last week watching all the wheelie bins full of empty bottles being tipped into the back of the dust cart for delivery to land fill makes me wonder why we bother.
As far as I am concerned, when the millionaires stupid enough to by a gin pad on Sandbanks find Poole Bay entering their music studies, I will be laffing up me sleeve.......
Also driving past the Conservative Club last week watching all the wheelie bins full of empty bottles being tipped into the back of the dust cart for delivery to land fill makes me wonder why we bother.
If the con club are doing that they are breaking the law, all bussines must recycle.
So mr poster you have two options report them or go and ask if those bottles are going for recycling ( as with many pubs etc the bottles are tipped into a dustcart then taken for recycling)
Im sure they will except your apology tho.
Re 11.09
Regretably the Con club or other businesses cannot take their bottles or any other waste they generate to a household recycling centre - that is against the law (although who would stop them I am not sure). I am not aware of anyone who comes to Swanage to collect empty bottles from pubs etc., so the bottles go to landfill. There may be someone who collects cardboard. Most commercial waste therefore goes into one general bin and is collected by their commercial waste contractor and goes to landfill.I suspect that recycling stuff also goes to landfill on occasions.
If I buy a bottle of pop a pub, who does the bottle belong to? Surely I can elect to have the landlord take my empty bottle to the recycling for me? It seems the Con Club have all the separate bins to be recycled, but it all goes in the cart together.
In some states in America, each glass or plastic bottle, or drink can, has a 5 cent deposit placed on them at point of sale. When emptied, customers return them to the grocery store where there is a machine - similar to a vending machine in reverse, that crushed or smashes the bottles and issues a redemption slip which you can exchange for cash. Simple and efficient.
It works! Everybody saves cans and bottles. Some make it a business. In my village a retired gent lets you leave bottles in containers on his front yard, and he recycles them and splits the proceeds with a local animal charity. Kids pounce on any cans or bottles littering the roads or beaches for the nickel redemption. 99% of the population of these states would not change this system for the world.
You notice the increased litter in nearby states which do not do this.
Why couldn't it work here?
An excellent suggestion. Bottles used to have a deposit here until they went over to a cheaper way of making them and decided it was not worth the cost of returning them to the bottling plant. Reuse in the old way would seem preferable to melting the glass down.
It would help if we were all to drink the stuff that comes out of the tap rather than water trucked from the other end of the country as well, but that is too much to ask for.
I am not aware of anyone who comes to Swanage to collect empty bottles from pubs etc., so the bottles go to landfill.
With all due respect be quiet unless you know the truth. There is SITA for one WS recycling also offer/ed a servive so do BIFFA I beleive.
Early this year a Wareham company were touting for busines to remove bottle they are tipped then sorted.
Please get your facts right before posting oipinions are fine factual inacaracies are not.
As is your bad spelling.
Suddenly I support better schools for Swanage!
Who gives a toss about my spelling Im 100% right so and he/she is wrong. All bottles are recycled. dont be so S0D44ing arogant.
If the con club are doing that they are breaking the law, all bussines must recycle.
So mr poster you have two options report them or go and ask if those bottles are going for recycling ( as with many pubs etc the bottles are tipped into a dustcart then taken for recycling)
Im sure they will except your apology tho.
Although I beleive in recycling.amap, cant always blame the businesses. Ive been told they have been forced to show how they recycle but have to pay business rates to recycle, whereas the rest of us just toss ours into the provided skips free of charge. Businesses should be encouraged and supported to recylcle not penalised financially.
Ive been told they have been forced to show how they recycle but have to pay business rates to recycle,
Bussines rates are nothing to do with it!
You pay extra to have rubbish removed, ie a large red/green 1100 ltr skip.
THEN more on top for the recycling bins ie approx £15 per month per bin.
it can cost over £4000 pa to remove rubbish from a bussines premises thats ON top of the rates and its compulsory.
Thats why Im bloody irritated by the moron who keeps saying that the con club bottles go in landfill.
They dont know what they are on about!
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