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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  • Saad Rashid
    signed 2016-12-25 11:21:08 -0800
  • Michael Maidment
    signed 2016-12-24 13:36:07 -0800
    okay so we wait until it all goose out of our control ,then we wait and see what happens,well that’s not an option l feel happy with why are the powers that be not doing anything to stop it,or are they safe in the knowledge of another option for them and not the hard working men and woman in the world.
  • Sarah Burke
    signed 2016-12-23 07:16:17 -0800
  • Leona Thomson
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-12-22 13:58:52 -0800
    Please sign the petition: Declare a Global State of Emergency!
  • Gaylene Wilkerson
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-12-21 20:39:36 -0800
    Please sign the petition: Declare a Global State of Emergency!
  • Gaylene Wilkerson
    @GaylenesWorld tweeted link to this page. 2016-12-21 20:39:32 -0800
  • Gaylene Wilkerson
    signed 2016-12-21 20:36:12 -0800
  • Keith Hepner
    signed 2016-12-20 15:22:02 -0800
  • Vicky Osterberg
    signed 2016-12-20 14:22:56 -0800
  • Doroteja Kay
    signed 2016-12-18 13:38:12 -0800
  • Amanda Sigsworth
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-12-18 05:27:39 -0800
    Please sign the petition: Declare a Global State of Emergency!
  • Amanda Sigsworth
    signed via 2016-12-18 05:27:03 -0800
  • Phil Manchester
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-12-18 04:40:36 -0800
    Please sign the petition: Declare a Global State of Emergency!
  • Phil Manchester
    signed 2016-12-18 04:39:30 -0800
  • David Prendergast
    signed 2016-12-18 04:19:55 -0800
    This is more like it. Current efforts to limit dangerous climate destabilization are not enough. This is now an imminent threat to us. I dont expect we’ll last long now regardless but dramatic action may at least slow this down. Please sign and share friends in every country. The science is clear, we are facing rapid destruction of global food and water supplies, expanding deserts, plastic oceans, unlivable temperature extremes in some places, mass migration that dwarves anything happening today and a threat even to the very air we breathe. Just because there is food in the shop and football on the TV now does not mean everything is ok. We’re like people on a first class flight with a sleeping pilot unaware there are a wall of mountains about 50 km directly ahead. We can’t rely on voluntary actions by a small percentage of people. We need immediate dramatic government action globally to make sustainable living easier rather than presenting us with options incentivised for us to pollute. That and about a thousand other dramatic sudden changes for us to have any chance of a continued existence beyond the near future..
  • holly oladujoye
    signed 2016-12-17 10:53:37 -0800
    any voluteer work i am happy to help
  • Steve Jones
    signed 2016-12-17 05:20:35 -0800
  • Angelica Afanador
    signed 2016-12-16 08:10:24 -0800
  • Joshua Valdez
    signed 2016-12-15 19:25:47 -0800
  • Ryan Barnard
    signed 2016-12-13 06:05:53 -0800
  • sarvesh pandiyan
    signed 2016-12-13 04:44:26 -0800
  • Mo Sow
    signed 2016-12-11 05:42:24 -0800
  • Janice Palmrose
    signed 2016-12-10 17:04:23 -0800
    In the face of rampant pollution, historic storms and excessive tornadoes as well as China’s loss of clean air happening in industrial areas denying global warming effects is suicidal.
  • Linda Bannon
    signed 2016-12-10 11:38:42 -0800
    Rapid, significant, global change calls for intense, focused (eat, sleep, drink, live the cause) action and we, the peacemakers, the naturalists, the honest, hard-working people will prevail.
  • Daniel Solomon
    signed 2016-12-09 02:58:06 -0800
    Everybody from every corner of the globe should have to act now against global warming. Let us call a spade a spade!
  • Louis Rifat
    signed 2016-12-08 09:03:02 -0800
    Words can’t describe how great an issue Global Warming is to every form of life on this planet; it’s a universal problem that governments of every nation should all be seeking to address immediately. Not in five, ten, twenty years – NOW.
  • raja kumar
    signed 2016-12-07 09:54:56 -0800
  • Rebecca Iverson
    signed 2016-12-06 19:07:41 -0800
  • Butrint Syla
    signed 2016-12-06 04:50:09 -0800
  • Kim Nghiem
    signed 2016-12-06 04:24:52 -0800