Planet Earth: Too Big To Fail

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We are all doing our part to stop global warming. But world leaders are not. Greenpeace took bold action to push world leaders towards bold action to prevent run away climate change .

As representatives from the world’s 17 biggest global warming polluters met at the State Department in Washington, D.C. this morning, Greenpeace activists climbed a crane across the street to hang a banner with a picture of Earth and the message “Too Big to Fail.” The banner hang lasted over 3 hours and when they came down, 7 activists we're arrested including Greenpeace USA’s new executive director, Phil Radford, who officially starts the job on Monday. Don't worry though, all activists have been released!



The representatives are meeting for the Major Economies Forum (MEF), a meeting of the largest greenhouse gas emitters on the planet. That's why Greenpeace used this banner hang to demand global action that will ensure a peak in emissions by 2015 followed by a rapid decline to as close to zero emissions as possible by 2050, which climate scientists say are crucial targets if we are to avert the worst affects of global warming. World leaders at the MEF must take responsibility for the planet and commit themselves to building a strong, legally binding agreement at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen being held this December.

We need you to take action as well. For the world to come together to solve global warming, America needs to take bold action itself.

TAKE ACTION: Demand Congress help kickstart the Energy [R]evolution!

Also you can learn more about the banner hang and the Major Economies Forum at greenpeace.org. And check out this video of the action:





For the Planet!
Chris
Greenpeace USA

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End Whaling Forever

Hello Friends,

They want to kill more whales - a lot more - but we're not going to let them. Japanese whalers have already killed 680 whales in the last few months, all under the ridiculous sham of conducting "research." In less than a month, Japan will come face to face with Greenpeace at the 2009 International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Portugal. This is the real battleground to save the whales - where their future ultimately hangs in the balance. But we cannot win a future for the whales without YOU!



Greenpeace urgently need $50,000 to send our top activists and campaigners to Portugal next month to demand an end to Japan's lethal whaling program. With just a $5 or $10 donation YOU can join Greenpeace in ending whaling forever.

TAKE ACTION: Please donate today!

Greenpeace launched the world's first anti-whaling campaign in 1975 and, after over a decade of campaigning, Greenpeace convinced the IWC to effectively ban commercial whaling in 1986. But Japan has been abusing a loophole in the ban that allows its whalers to kill hundreds of these amazing defenseless creatures every year for so-called "scientific research." Greenpeace has exposed this as a fraud and we must not allow the slaughter to continue.



This past year, in one of the most significant developments since we won the ban on commercial whaling, Greenpeace disclosed evidence that reveals Japan's research program for what it really is: a large-scale whale meat scam. Even the IWC's Scientific Committee found that Japan has failed to reach a single one of its scientific objectives and has repeatedly asked Japan to end its hunt.

We need your support to save the whales, end the slaughter and defend our oceans - please click now and make as generous a gift as you can.

For the whales,



John Hocevar
Oceans Campaign Director


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