COAL KILLS

Coal Kills -- Time for People Power to Protect the Climate

By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark project
http://www.climateark.org/
March 1, 2009

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW:
CLICK ON THE RED PRINT TITLE COAL KILLS ABOVE

The use of coal must end if we are to maintain an
operable atmosphere, human civilization and all the
Earth's complex life

BRIEF BACKGROUND:
The growing and powerful climate movement has, based upon
climate science, already shown conclusively that climate
change is real and deadly. Now we must urge politicians,
industry and individuals to immediately act and transform
themselves if we are to survive. Finally, a mass protest
against coal -- whose plants are "factories of death" --
is to occur in America, reflecting the urgency and depth
of the one most important, sufficient climate response
through non-violent civil disobedience.

Coal generates the highest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
per unit of energy obtained, and large reserves remain
that must not be burned if we are to survive. Continued
reliance upon coal, without immediate phasing-out of
plants that emit into the atmosphere, is incompatible
with any scenario to reduce atmospheric GHGs to a safe
level in time to avert irreversible and catastrophic
climate change.

Ecological Internet wholeheartedly endorses the Capitol
Climate Action -- the largest mass civil disobedience for
the climate in U.S. history. On March 2, you are urged to
join thousands of people in protesting at the Capitol
Power Plant in Washington DC, a plant that powers the
U.S. Congress with dirty energy. We encourage you to
consider marching and getting arrested to make the point
that the age of coal is over, and/or to show your support
for the brave protestors and the end of coal by sending
the message below.

TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=coal_kills