Help Al Gore Send Your Message For Our Planet To Congress

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From our Patriots for Al Gore website:


The people now have an outspoken advocate in Al Gore. He is now a free man. He is one of us. He is now not enslaved to a beltway mentality that only thinks in their own small boxes. He is now a representative for our planet that has the means and ability to let our voices be heard on the most crucial crisis mankind has ever faced: Our hand in destroying our planet.

As Mr. Gore rightly states, the climate crisis is not a political issue but a moral issue. However, in order for this country to come into the 21st Century and live up to its moral responsibility for the damage it has caused and is causing to our environment on a global scale, we need legislation now to hold corporations accountable for the fossil fuels they burn that contribute to anthropogenic climate change, and the pollution they cause.

We also need sound legislation that strengthens our bond to our only home by aggressively seeking alternate energy goals that will lead to a more peaceful and sustainable world for our children. However, this cannot and will not be done only in the confines of the halls of a beltway bought and sold by special interests. It will be done by a nationwide grassroots movement calling on the Congress and also state legislatures to do their jobs regarding this issue which they have been remiss about for the last three decades.

Al Gore tried for thirty years to impart this warning to a political sphere that did not to want to listen and now the world is beginning to reap the whirlwind for our inactions and our ignorance. As one of them, he could not convey the importance and urgency that he can now as a citizen leader of a nationwide grassroots effort to bring about the sea change necessary to work for viable solutions that bring about economic prosperity and sustainability. And that sea change begins with the true deciders of the fate of this nation: The people.

Therefore, not only do we need legislation to seek to change our ways to bring sustainability to our planet for the common good, we also need as part of that legislation a renewed Democratic dialogue in our country that seeks to inform and educate rather than hide the truth in dark shadows. This however, will not be an easy or quick process. It will require a daily and yearly committal to a cause that far surpasses the benign cheerleading of those who do not see this crisis as urgent and real, but only as an excuse to use it as a political wedge.

The people will then need a sincere advocate who can devote all of their time to seeking this renewed dialogue and inspiring and involving people to take action for the good of their country and their world regarding this "planetary emergency." No "politician" in a bought and sold system where corporate money rules, and where unelected presidents have veto power and allowed to maintain that power can now achieve this, and time is of the essence for our planet.

That is why Patriots for Al Gore call upon Al Gore to be that citizen advocate and we support all of his endeavors as such in seeking that renewal of Democratic dialogue and efforts to bring about real changes from bottom to top to bring us into a sustainable future. That will require more than cheerleading, polls, and sound bites from those who failed to support this man's endeavors in the past on this issue. It will take looking beyond the man and seeing the reality of what we face if we continue to play games with this crisis and only attaching importance to it on a partisan political level.

Those obsessed with thinking only one man in America has any power regarding the solutions do not truly understand the power committed people have in changing history. They are stuck in their ruts of the past and personal motivations, and cannot see beyond the rhetoric to new horizons and new ways of thinking and acting. I believe Mr. Gore does see this and has experienced the transcendence necessary to look beyond the selfish pandering to the real progress that can be achieved by people truly committed to doing good without needing a conferred title.

And that is why I also support his effort to bring signatures to Congress to call on them to see that this is indeed a moral issue that requires them as well to look into their souls, and also call on people to contact their state legislatures as well to ask that state by state we begin this process. Mr. Gore in his movie and book, An Inconvenient Truth, also calls on US to do our part in helping to do all we can to now lessen our impact on a world we are stripping bare.

Therefore, PFG pledges it's help in this effort and urges people to sign.

Sign for your children.

Sign for your loved ones.

Sign for those species that cannot speak for themselves.

Sign for our forests.

Sign for our oceans.

Sign for our rainforests.

Sign for our future as a civilization.

Sign for those yet to be born.

Sign for your planet.

Sign here:

Al Gore's Website

Thank you, Mr. Gore for being a sincere advocate for our planet and bringing the truth of this to the world, and not giving in to the hype. This, saving the sustainability of our planet, is the greatest accomplishment you have and will ever achieve, and proves that you are the man the world needs to be our citizen advocate who can speak for and with us, and devote all of your time to the most crucial yet hopeful crisis we have ever faced unencumbered by the stifled political system you can now face as a free man to truly hold accountable to do their jobs for the people.

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1. My Letter to Congress To Help Al Gore

This is what I sent to Congress from his site after I signed the card to my representatives:

An Inconvenient Truth not only discusses what we are doing to our atmosphere regarding the burning of fossil fuels. Related to that is also the looming water crisis we now face that is predicted to lead us into wars for this precious resource should current trends continue, and as human activity continues to contribute to the conditions causing severe drought in our world through melting permafrost and glaciers.

In Al Gore's prescient movie, An Inconvenient Truth, he presents to us a scenario of a planet that is now evolving and will continue to evolve from our current rapacious use of fossil fuels because of our continued denial about the consequences of our actions in denying our role in it's making, and reneging on our moral responsibility to our planet to stem the tide of those effects.

It is a movie that I believe must be seen by all, as it truly depicts the world we are creating for our children and the hope and will we need to solve this crisis, which I too believe can be done. And inextricably linked to the climate crisis we now face is also a looming global water crisis.

I cannot stress enough how absolutely crucial an issue this is to our world and our lives. As populations increase globally and water use per person rises, the demand for freshwater is increasing. This is becoming the most crucial environmental issue of our future. The supply of freshwater on Earth is finite and the majority of it globally is threatened by pollution. Pollution we are making. This presents many countries with difficult choices between demand and the increasing percentages of polluted water that leave whole populations without anything else to use for sanitation, drinking, and everyday living. Populations continue to grow rapidly and there is no more water on Earth now than there was 2,000 years ago when the population was less than 3% of its current size.

Farming, domestic (municipal) consumption, and privatization that does not take these issues into account are causing wars over allocation of scarce water resources and pollution issues regarding freshwater available. Today, 31 countries counting for under 8% of the world population, face chronic freshwater shortages. By the year 2025, however, 48 countries are expected to face shortages affecting more than 2.8 billion people, -35% of the world's projected population.

Among countries likely to run short of water in the next 25 years are Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, and Peru. Other large countries such as China, already faces chronic water problems due to economic expansion with poor policies in place regarding water safety and scarcity, and severe drought due to excessive heat brought on in part by climate change. And in much of the world polluted water, improper waste disposal, and poor water management cause deadly public health problems.

Water-related diseases such as malaria, cholera, typhoid, and schistosomiasis harm or kill millions of people every year. Overuse and pollution of water supplies also are taking a heavy toll on the natural environment and pose increasing risks for many species of life.

Water-borne diseases caused by the lack of adequate sanitary waste disposal clean water for drinking, cooking, and washing is to blame for over 12 million deaths a year... twelve million preventable deaths a year. This figure does not even take into account those who die due to droughts that also affect food supplies. Countries such as Niger and Kenya have been experiencing droughts beyond the crisis stage for many years, yet there seems to be no viable solutions being brought forward aggressively to alleviate the suffering of these people even as scientists corroborate the human activity that is contributing to the drought conditions over 30% of this world now faces.

More than one billion people worldwide have no access to safe drinking water (that's four times the U.S. population).

More than 2.5 billion people worldwide have no access to adequate sanitation facilities.

More than 8,000 children die every day (nearly one child every 10 seconds) from illness linked to inadequate and unsafe water supplies and waste disposal in poor countries. Nearly all of this illness is preventable.

Improvements in water supply and sanitation reduce infant mortality by an average of 55%.

The twenty-first century is here and still one of every six persons on Earth faces a daily life threatening struggle... the struggle just to get water to drink. Now with climate change becoming part of this equation, there is an added factor to consider. Appropriate policies and strategies must be formulated and acted on soon by the world community. Whatever the reason for water's use be it for farming, municipal use, or industry, there is much more room for conservation and more effective management to eliminate waste, emphasize conservation, and stress sustainability.

To avoid a global catastrophe over the long term, it also is important to act now to slow the growth in demand for freshwater by slowing population growth and bringing the inconvenient truth to people that we simply must stop the rapacious emitting of greenhouse gases that are contributing to the effects we are seeing in much of the world.

And now as recently as today, scientists have reported that due to melting permafrost, more CO2 and methane is being released into our atmosphere at a rate six times faster than was anticipated, and human activity is also exacerbating this viscous cycle which once again does and will also have an effect on global water supplies in relation to drought, dams, diversion, and lack of water due to waste and privatization.

We need to see major legislation on the part of this nation's Congress addressing the climate crisis that is affecting our world also in regards to water scarcity and other effects that are changing our planet.

Without planning now for the repercussions of over population, pollution, economic unrest, and our own contributions to the climate crisis we now face (which all contribute to these preventable deaths in the millions due to diseases borne of our own greed and indifference to our world and fellow citizens,) we surely may see the closing of that ten year window Dr. James Hansen of NASA warned us about. And for our future sustainability, that is simply not an option.

As Al Gore stated in An Inconvenient Truth, we are reaching a period of consequences, but we do have all we need to mitigate this crisis. What we lack is the will and the hope. It's time to stop using our resources for war and death which take away that will and hope, and start using them for the work they were meant to do: Giving life. This is then most definitely the moral issue of our time. And it is time for Congress to do it's job. Our children should not have to face this crisis on their own.
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I do hope they FINALLY get the message.