This week i’m writing a letter that i don’t get to write very often – a thank you letter. As you may well be aware, on February 16, 2005 the Kyoto Protocol took effect in the 114 countries that ratified it. The US, as is well known, is not one of those countries. Many folks here in the US were pissed. After all, we have only 5% of the world’s population and yet we produce more than 25% of the world’s greenhouse gases.
One of the more notably pissed off citizens was Seattle’s Mayor Nickels. But rather than just hold a press conference to express his rage, he decided to organize. On March 30, 2005 Nickels and nine other mayors across the US, representing more than 3 million people, sent a letter to more than 400 US mayors asking them to take action to stop global climate change. On June 13, 2005 the Mayors Climate Protection Act was passed unanimously by the US Conference of Mayors. As of today, 279 mayors, representing 48.5 million people, have signed on to the agreement, including my own mayor, Mark Kruzan.
So today i’m taking the time to write a letter to the mayor thanking him for taking action to protect the planet that gives us life. If you would like to know if your mayor has signed the agreement, just enter your zipcode on stopglobalwarming.org. If your mayor has not signed the agreement, there is a button you can push that will send a pre-written email to them urging them to sign.
If you would like more information about global climate change, you can get started at OneWorld.net’s Climate Change 101. By the way, the most effective ways for you to take persynal action to stop global climate change are to drive less and bike more, eat locally grown foods, and go vegan. Stopglobalwarming.org has lots of other ways to help out (most are much easier, but not as effective). And if you want a very informative look at how your living choices effect the ecosystem, check out the Earth Day Footprint Quiz.
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By the way, the most effective ways for you to take persynal action to stop global climate change…
“Stop global climate change”? Good luck with that one. I’m reminded of the activists in Heathers. “Maybe we should do something about the ozone layer.” “Yeah, we totally need to get rid of that thing!”
Well it’s certainly true that Mayor Nickels has certainly received a great deal of favorable publicity outside Seattle for his actions outside Seattle.
The united states is responsible for the most “more humans” propaganda, they are not smokestacks, for smokestacks sake; but smokestacks providing crappy products for replacement population (uneducated immigrants who are a net drain on “evil racist” white funded social services) with a generous cut to kosheranity. Jesus orders each western nation to follow the United States’ example. Bush talks with Jesus: It’s a direct order.
The two things keeping the united states together is the “terrerist” scaremongering and promised pensions of the baby boomers; that’s it. This nation is going down and it will personally be refreshing to awake in a multipolar world (That “one nation above all” : Israel lying in ruins) with a balkanized American hemisphere, the ultimate result is less cars on the road, less people, more trees, more land, fresher air, abundant wildlife.
robert – let me rephrase that: “…to slow down global climate change…” you just can’t let one slide by can you?
seattle male – don’t get me wrong, i don’t make any claims that Mayor Nickels is the most wonderful mayor. i’m well aware of his many flaws (at least some of them). i just like to point out when people are doing something positive, instead of being the constant downer.
Vegankid,
I don’t know if you are in Seattle or not, though I gather you have some familiarity with our city. The Mayor is not a bad man — let me be clear about that. But I believe that he has poor judgment. On the one hand he claims to be worried about global warming. Yet he takes the lead in killing a public transit project which had already been authorized/funded by the voters when it came upon the inevitable problems faced by any major public work. Then at the same time he urges a 1 mile Tunnel for cars and trucks which Seattle can only afford if we divert all our discretionary spending for decades to this vehicle-only project.
No, I think it’s fair to look at the Mayor’s work as a whole and not cherry-pick the issues one likes.
These tactics are not endemic to this situation. I am a Jewish landlord in Bloomington, Indiana, and have fallen prey to an anti-semitic city government, run by an ex-con mayor, Mark Kruzan. Over the past two years, Kruzan and his cohorts in the Legal Department and the Housing Department, Kevin Robling and Lisa Abbott, have systematically fined me for a multitude of ordinance violations ranging from my grass being a few inches too long to allegations of “alarming” occupancy density, such as situations in which four individuals legally occupy a 4-bedroom home.
Here are links to a few blogs about these experiences:
http://patriciamulvihill.blogspot.com
http://cityofbloomington.blogspot.com