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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  • Quiana Jeremiah
    signed 2017-07-13 07:24:27 -0700
    Quiana Jeremiah
  • tyler duffett
    signed 2017-07-13 05:16:58 -0700
  • Angela Banafo Darko
    signed 2017-07-12 03:52:44 -0700
  • kyla reyes
    signed 2017-07-12 03:17:39 -0700
  • Laura Beckman
    signed 2017-07-12 00:19:47 -0700
    Laura Beckman
  • Christopher Lowe
    signed 2017-07-11 11:08:08 -0700
  • Elyssa Glenn
    signed 2017-07-11 10:56:55 -0700
  • Catherine Gavin
    signed 2017-07-11 10:36:48 -0700
  • Emilie Axters
    signed 2017-07-11 04:05:27 -0700
  • Celeste Martin
    signed 2017-07-10 10:22:57 -0700
  • Hayley Gibson
    signed 2017-07-08 11:16:36 -0700
    Sign quickly!
  • jessenia mcdonald
    signed 2017-07-07 10:40:37 -0700
  • Lilith Rogers
    posted about this on Facebook 2017-07-06 22:19:14 -0700
    Please sign the petition: Declare a Global State of Emergency!
  • Lilith Rogers
    signed 2017-07-06 22:18:55 -0700
    Gotta stop and reverse.
  • Anthoni Caron
    signed 2017-07-05 12:56:03 -0700
    Listen to qualified scientist about the issue of global warming and climate change, do not ignore them, and their warnings.
  • stephen mason
    signed 2017-07-05 02:31:39 -0700
    one world, one unique living environment, our home, the most complex living organism known to man, whats not to cherish and fight for!!!!!
  • Annelie McLaughlin
    signed 2017-07-04 05:27:42 -0700
    Annelie McLaughlin
  • Dorothea Chism
    signed 2017-07-03 19:36:15 -0700
  • Susan Dauphin
    signed 2017-07-03 06:34:49 -0700
  • Massimo Stigliano
    signed 2017-06-30 14:13:09 -0700
  • Kristina Napp
    signed 2017-06-30 00:20:12 -0700
  • Tambaoga Manjengwa
    signed 2017-06-29 12:47:01 -0700
  • Karl Gary
    posted about this on Facebook 2017-06-28 18:24:58 -0700
    Please sign the petition: Declare a Global State of Emergency!
  • Karl Gary
    @compassionsays tweeted link to this page. 2017-06-28 18:24:50 -0700
  • Karl Gary
    signed 2017-06-28 18:18:34 -0700
    https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/


    As those who signed the petition know, it’s this simple. We are producing too much CO2 that our plant life cannot convert back into oxygen.


    Per Stephen Hawking: “A more immediate danger is runaway climate change. A rise in ocean temperature would melt the ice-caps, and cause a release of large amounts of carbon dioxide from the ocean floor. Both effects could make our climate like that of Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees.”
  • Alina Broome
    signed 2017-06-28 15:14:14 -0700
  • Emily Clancy
    signed 2017-06-28 12:52:14 -0700
  • BobJr JrJr
    signed 2017-06-25 16:27:12 -0700
    hi im bob jr jr jr and i like so i say end global warming i kno ho to end global weaming all u have tew dew is end global weaming and this very inspirationalll because the number one thing that u should be afraid of is the ocean the is filled with giant piranas and poop and sharks infectes with pistol shrimp and the pistol is infected with diabetes. good day government and death to all stormcloaks.
  • Will Loosley
    signed 2017-06-25 12:55:02 -0700
  • Heather Patterson
    signed 2017-06-24 07:39:30 -0700
    Heather Patterson