Watch Al Gore's film An Inconvienent Truth.


The climate crisis is, indeed, extremely dangerous. In fact it is a true planetary emergency.

The voluminous evidence now strongly suggests that unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes, including more and stronger storms like Hurricane Katrina, in both the Atlantic and the Pacific.

We are melting the North Polar ice cap and virtually all of the mountain glaciers in the world. We are destabilizing the massive mound of ice on Greenland and the equally enormous mass of ice propped up on top of islands in West Antarctica, threatening a worldwide increase in sea levels of as much as twenty feet.

We are dumping so much carbon dioxide into the Earth's environment that we have literally changed the relationship between the Earth and the Sun.

Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc; it is us.

But along with the danger we face from global warming, this crisis also brings unprecedented opportunities.

They include not just new jobs and new profits, though there will be plenty of both, we can build clean engines, we can harness the Sun and the wind; we can stop wasting energy; we can use our planet's plentiful coal resources without heating the planet.

The climate crisis also offers us the chance to experience what very few generations in history have had the privilege of knowing: the thrill of being forced by circumstances to put aside the pettiness and conflict that so often stifle the restless human need for transcendence; the opportunity to rise.

Those who are now suffering from a loss of meaning in their lives will find hope.




_{Reprinted from An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore. Copyright (c) 2006 by Al Gore.}

Come on

Use Energy Efficient Lightbulbs
Plant a Tree
Fill the Dishwasher only with a full load.
Use Recycled Paper _{printers included}
Take Shorter Showers
Buy Products Locally
Buy Minimally Packaged Goods
Carpool When You Can
Reduce Garbage, Recycle instead
Unplug Un-Used Electronics
Put on a Sweater _{instead of turning up the heating.}
Air Dry Your Clothes
Buy Organic Food
Cut Back On Meat
Reuse your Plastic Bottles & Bags
Turn off Your Computer when not in use.


_{Simple Ways You Can Help}

If not for your future, for our childrens future.