Please Sign the Climate Change Emergency Petition

Please sign electronically at the bottom of this page. You will receive an immediate email copy and acknowledgment. Over 100,000 individuals have signed this petition and similar petitions worldwide! 

Climate Change Emergency Petition 

We, the citizens of our nation and of the Earth, are endowed with certain rights, powers, and obligations, which demand we act to preserve and protect the future of humanity and Earth's other biological life.

Our petition has four demands.

Based on abundant scientific evidence or our own climate change experiences, we recognize that:

a. The global climate is rapidly warming. 

b. Despite 60 years of credible scientific warnings, climate change and global warming are still rising and have reached dangerous levels, causing widespread deterioration across our climate and environment.

c. The global climate is becoming increasingly unstable due to atmospheric greenhouse gas pollution (carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide), which is dominantly coming from the burning of human-caused fossil fuels. This is an urgent crisis that demands immediate action.

We are now facing a rapidly worsening climate change scenario.

This climate change-driven environmental deterioration and escalating extinction threat can only be fixed by our politicians immediately enacting the scientifically correct 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets.

Getting close to the 2025 global targets will dramatically reduce the damaging atmospheric carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide and prevent the worst consequences of climate change.

It will also help prevent the loss of at least 10 million lives a year worldwide from just the painful and debilitating health-related effects of the toxic air pollution caused by fossil fuel burning. 

If we do not get close to the 2025 fossil fuel reduction targets, the frequency, severity, and size of global climate change consequences will rise dramatically from 2025-2031 and beyond and far beyond what we can quickly adapt to.

Many of these climate change consequences will be catastrophic and last for hundreds to thousands of years.

 

 

Therefore, I hereby demand that our politicians and government leaders meet to enact these four demands:

1. Declare a national and international Climate Change Emergency. (We will never be able to manage worsening climate change unless we call the climate change emergency that it really is.)

2. Immediately pass enforceable and verifiable national and international laws that will get us close to the required 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets. (These climate change-related laws and actions are described here.)

3. Order an immediate government mass mobilization of ALL necessary resources and personnel to execute ALL required governmental actions to come as close as possible to the correct 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets. And finally,

4. Start the necessary climate change disaster preparation, adaptation, and resilience-building needed for soon-arriving, severe climate change consequences that our nation can no longer avoid or prevent. (About one-half of humanity could die off by 2050-2070 if our politicians fail us once again.)

By electronically signing this petition below, I am officially petitioning and demanding that my national politicians execute the four above actions to protect and preserve humanity and all biological life on Earth. 

Furthermore, realizing that the climate change consequences that are already occurring will take centuries to thousands of years to repair (creating an unbearable nightmare for surviving generations), I further pledge to continue to help resolve our intensifying climate change emergency until it is fixed!

Sign at the Bottom of this Page Now!

 

Additional Petition Information, If Needed:

1. See key information about how this petition will be used here.

2. When you sign the petition, you give us permission to email you your petition signature acknowledgment copy and occasional climate change emergency progress updates about once a month.

 

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  • Venture Studio
    signed 2019-07-01 12:58:14 -0700
  • Marissa Winant
    signed 2019-06-30 11:08:19 -0700
  • Bill Butterworth
    signed 2019-06-30 08:39:18 -0700
    Bill Butterworth
  • Debra Blaquiere
    signed 2019-06-30 06:25:52 -0700
  • Dawn Clay
    @dawnmc53 tweeted link to this page. 2019-06-29 00:59:46 -0700
  • Dawn Clay
    signed 2019-06-29 00:59:09 -0700
  • Evan Motley
    signed 2019-06-28 20:31:36 -0700
  • Amanda Lee
    signed 2019-06-27 21:22:08 -0700
  • Leviq Gilmore
    signed 2019-06-27 19:59:31 -0700
    Let’s work together an slow down this serious problem
  • Miha Zupanič
    signed 2019-06-27 11:04:32 -0700
  • Jack Portugal
    signed 2019-06-27 08:57:06 -0700
    Deah is upon us if we dont do it
  • Brenda Reasoner
    signed 2019-06-27 07:34:47 -0700
  • Baylee Dill
    signed 2019-06-27 07:05:26 -0700
  • Joel Fulkerth
    signed 2019-06-26 21:27:54 -0700
    Joel Robert Fulkerth
  • Kate Farrington
    signed 2019-06-26 15:33:19 -0700
  • Loyda Rodas
    signed 2019-06-25 19:15:06 -0700
    Signed
  • Ashley Garcia-Frias
    signed 2019-06-25 05:33:51 -0700
  • Laura Guerrero
    signed 2019-06-25 00:11:07 -0700
  • Heather Sullivan
    signed 2019-06-24 20:16:31 -0700
    Heather Sullivan
  • Zachary Harrigan
    signed 2019-06-24 10:49:45 -0700
  • Floyd Mitchell
    signed 2019-06-23 22:23:33 -0700
    I am a retired Sanitary Engineer. I have voiced concerns ever since I read Limits to Growth in the 70’s. I would love any opportunity to assist your efforts. I have a PhD education, UC Berkeley and 45 years experience in many countries practicing W/WW planning, design, and implementation. I am also a pretty good technical editor in my field. I would not need a salary, but would need travel and accommodation covered for assignments away from home.


    In my view we need an immediate international tax equivalent to $5 to $10 per gallon of fuel on all carbon fuels. The money would go toward green energy projects. This tax would also greatly reduce the use of carbon fuels immediately. We probably also need a policy of one child per woman, with mandatory sterilisation thereafter. Women could be allowed to sell their right to the one child. Meat should also be taxed highly, and deforestation stopped in its tracks. Pesticides use must also be dramatically curtailed to prevent the mass extermination of insects needed for agriculture and nature in general. Nuclear power should be expanded preferentially as it seems to be the least environmentally damaging.

    Respectfully, Floyd Mitchell
  • Soniya Hadkar
    signed 2019-06-23 10:34:52 -0700
    Soniya Hadkar
  • Louise Polo
    signed 2019-06-22 01:31:05 -0700
  • Kelly Stout
    signed 2019-06-21 17:54:45 -0700
  • Zoe Brady
    signed 2019-06-20 20:06:42 -0700
  • Katlin Rolling
    signed 2019-06-20 14:25:00 -0700
  • Bryan Flete
    signed 2019-06-19 20:06:10 -0700
    2050 is our estimated year of doom., And yet older generations ask how we are so depressed.
  • grace cuthbert
    signed 2019-06-19 12:46:26 -0700
  • oliver gilkes
    signed 2019-06-19 12:21:49 -0700
  • Aniya Jackson
    signed 2019-06-18 19:59:36 -0700
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