Deal Is No Deal: Leaders 'Save Face' While Biosphere Burns
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/18-11
Civil Society Comes Together for 'Vigil of Survival'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/12/18-2
Obama's Speech Disappoints and Fuels Frustration at Copenhagen
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/18-0
Obama's Climate Sham[e]: Empty Rhetoric in Copenhagen Speech
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/18-5
Reaction to Obama Copenhagen Speech
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/18-5
Real People Will Pay Price of a Copenhagen Stalemate
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/18-3
Friends of the Earth - International: Copenhagen: A Disaster for World's Poorest
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/18-15
Report: Biodiversity Loss Puts Essentials of Life Under Threat
http://act.commondreams.org/go/549?akid=53.124981.qhE2Fd&t=4
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Fury and denunciation greet insubstantial climate accord in Copenhagen
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9230/
Democracy later, because climate change is too serious and humans too dumb?
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9497/
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More Old Forests, Less Industrial Agriculture, Key to Climate, Food and Water
ACTION ALERT
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!
By ClimateArk Climate Change Portal http://www.climateark.org/ - a project of Ecological Internet December 16, 2009
Securing world food security while maintaining operable forests, global climate, water, ocean and terrestrial ecosystems – and human rights, justice and equity – is the biggest challenge facing humanity. Water and food are the next bubbles to burst -- expect severe shortages of both in the 2010s. It is long past time to get back to the land through protecting and restoring old forests and organic permaculture farming. Our survival depends upon being with land, collecting water, letting forests age and growing food.
TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=protect_old_forests
Today industrial-style agriculture uses huge amounts of water, energy, and chemicals – replacing natural terrestrial ecosystems with toxic monocultures; while poisoning and displacing local peoples. Farms are large, highly specialized, and run like factories with large inputs of fossil fuels from pesticides, other synthetic chemicals and transportation fuels. Land degradation — the decline in the quality of soil, water and vegetation — is of profound importance for any serious negotiations upon climate change. A new study finds that 24% of the Earth‘s land is degrading, some of it formerly quite productive. Large scale biofuel/biomass production – particularly promoting monoculture tree plantations within the context of Copenhagen “solutions” – runs counter to urgently addressing climate change and threatens to cause more deforestation, human rights abuses, and degradation of soil, water and biodiversity. All biofuels based upon industrial agricultural practices worsen climate change and ecologically diminish soils and ecosystems, drive food prices up, and force more people worldwide into hunger and malnutrition. It is time to transform agriculture into an ecologically sustainable enterprise, based on systems which can be employed for centuries. To reduce the pressures upon the land and allow forests to undergo succession, we must promote organic, permaculture, low impact agriculture, agro-forest and other agro-ecological systems to meet human food needs, including major reduction in meat consumption. And protecting and restoring old forests where they historically occurred is vital as well.
MORE INFORMATION AND TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=protect_old_forests
DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Copenhagen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=old+forest
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Monbiot
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Suzanne+Goldenberg
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Allegra+Stratton
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jamie+Henn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Lovelock
Civil Society Comes Together for 'Vigil of Survival'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/12/18-2
Obama's Speech Disappoints and Fuels Frustration at Copenhagen
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/18-0
Obama's Climate Sham[e]: Empty Rhetoric in Copenhagen Speech
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/18-5
Reaction to Obama Copenhagen Speech
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/18-5
Real People Will Pay Price of a Copenhagen Stalemate
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/18-3
Friends of the Earth - International: Copenhagen: A Disaster for World's Poorest
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/18-15
Report: Biodiversity Loss Puts Essentials of Life Under Threat
http://act.commondreams.org/go/549?akid=53.124981.qhE2Fd&t=4
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Fury and denunciation greet insubstantial climate accord in Copenhagen
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9230/
Democracy later, because climate change is too serious and humans too dumb?
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9497/
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More Old Forests, Less Industrial Agriculture, Key to Climate, Food and Water
ACTION ALERT
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!
By ClimateArk Climate Change Portal http://www.climateark.org/ - a project of Ecological Internet December 16, 2009
Securing world food security while maintaining operable forests, global climate, water, ocean and terrestrial ecosystems – and human rights, justice and equity – is the biggest challenge facing humanity. Water and food are the next bubbles to burst -- expect severe shortages of both in the 2010s. It is long past time to get back to the land through protecting and restoring old forests and organic permaculture farming. Our survival depends upon being with land, collecting water, letting forests age and growing food.
TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=protect_old_forests
Today industrial-style agriculture uses huge amounts of water, energy, and chemicals – replacing natural terrestrial ecosystems with toxic monocultures; while poisoning and displacing local peoples. Farms are large, highly specialized, and run like factories with large inputs of fossil fuels from pesticides, other synthetic chemicals and transportation fuels. Land degradation — the decline in the quality of soil, water and vegetation — is of profound importance for any serious negotiations upon climate change. A new study finds that 24% of the Earth‘s land is degrading, some of it formerly quite productive. Large scale biofuel/biomass production – particularly promoting monoculture tree plantations within the context of Copenhagen “solutions” – runs counter to urgently addressing climate change and threatens to cause more deforestation, human rights abuses, and degradation of soil, water and biodiversity. All biofuels based upon industrial agricultural practices worsen climate change and ecologically diminish soils and ecosystems, drive food prices up, and force more people worldwide into hunger and malnutrition. It is time to transform agriculture into an ecologically sustainable enterprise, based on systems which can be employed for centuries. To reduce the pressures upon the land and allow forests to undergo succession, we must promote organic, permaculture, low impact agriculture, agro-forest and other agro-ecological systems to meet human food needs, including major reduction in meat consumption. And protecting and restoring old forests where they historically occurred is vital as well.
MORE INFORMATION AND TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=protect_old_forests
DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Copenhagen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=old+forest
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Monbiot
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Suzanne+Goldenberg
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Allegra+Stratton
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jamie+Henn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Lovelock
rudkla - 16. Dez, 12:58
