Exhaust Pipe vs' Smoking: Which Causes More Harm

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Exhaust Pipe vs. Smoking Which Causes More Harm?
Torontos medical officer released a report
stating a 30 reduction in vehicle emissions
could save 200 lives, one billion dollars a year
in health care costs and 68,000 asthma attacks
for children a year in Toronto alone.  OMA
estimates for annual premature deaths (2130
people) due to smog in Toronto alone were almost
three times the number of deaths (831people)
Health Canada attributes to secondhand smoke
exposure for the whole of Canada. One must wonder
why there is such apathy towards these numbers
when pollution is something we can clearly
defeat.
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• Canadians for Action on Climate Change
• Governments key role is to serve as the trustee
  of the commonwealth and the common health for
  this and future generations.  Yet
• Canada now stands out as one of the last major
  industrialized countries opposed to targets for
  deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and
  one of the biggest blockers of climate change
  negotiations.
• Canadians for Action on Climate Change is a
  developing non-profit NGO of activists, academia,
  physicians and citizens focusing on climate
  change, true cost economy and relocalization. Our
  organization seeks to provide news, reports and
  analysis to inform, educate and develop
  environmental policies for all levels of
  government in Canada.  We are committed to being
  part of an international movement against
  destruction of our shared environment.  Our
  current economy is unsustainable and an unethical
  catalyst to ever increasing global warming. This
  model assumes endless growth and limitless
  potential wealth that completely disregards the
  fact that the earths life support capacity is
  finite.  We respect the integrity, resilience,
  and beauty of the common wealth of all life as
  the foundation for a new sustainable economic
  model for our finite planet that will benefit
  generations to come.
• You can contact us at canadianclimateaction_at_gmail
  .com
• http//canadianclimateaction.wordpress.com/

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• Our shared environment is neither a left nor a
  right issue.  It is not a partisan issue.
• We all breathe the same air.
• We all share one finite planet.

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• We are now at a crossroads.  Some citizens have
  such a deep sense of entitlement that they
  actually fight for their right to harm our
  shared environment.  Such individuals are so
  disconnected from nature that they do not
  understand that their perceived right to
  pollute and degrade our shared environment is at
  the expense of not only their own health, but the
  health and welfare of their own children and the
  people they love.  Such perceived rights and
  senses of entitlement are the root cause of
  climate change which now kills 300,000 people per
  year. 

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• Canada and the US together represent less than 5
  percent of humanity yet consume over one-quarter
  of the worlds oil, and contribute to more than
  one-quarter of the worlds greenhouse gas
  emissions. Carbon is the most significant
  greenhouse gas, and Canadas per capita carbon
  footprint is more than twice that of the average
  European, roughly five times the world average,
  and more than 20 times that of many developing
  countries.
• Canadians must urgently face up to our grossly
  outsized and destructive carbon footprint, and
  changes need to start somewhere.Idling and
  drive-thrus are simply luxury items we can live
  without. The low hanging fruits so to speak.
• Whether in blissful ignorance or conscious
  disregard, to continue to act like we are simply
  entitled to more and more urban sprawl, more
  cars, more oil, and more greenhouse emissions
  constitutes a planetary arrogance of frightening
  proportions. Idling bylaws and moratoriums on new
  drive-thrus would represent an important first
  step towards a new vision of denser, less
  resource intensive cities, and one which is
  ultimately more in step with our responsibilities
  as global citizens.

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We are in a world wide public health crisis
epidemic as a direct result of air pollution.
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• A new advocacy and public health movement is
  needed urgently to bring together governments,
  international agencies, non-governmental
  organizations (NGOs), com-munities, and academics
  from all disciplines to adapt to the effects of
  climate change on health. Any adaptation should
  sit alongside the need for primary mitigation
  reduction in greenhouse gas emissions - Lancet
  and University College London Institute for
  Global Health Commission

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The Role of Cities

• The battle against climate change will be won or
  lost in cities. The role of provincial and
  federal governments is, of course, widely
  debated, analyzed and understood. Yet the
  challenge is so huge that cross-cutting action at
  all levels will be needed. The central role of
  city leaders in our rapidly urbanizing world will
  be key to reducing the worlds greenhouse gas
  emissions. The leaders of large cities have a
  particular responsibility to act, and governments
  must empower and enable city governments to take
  on this role.
• If global efforts to address climate change are
  to be successful, they will need to integrate
  city requirements and environmental management
  capacities. Only with a coordinated approach and
  actions at the global, regional, national and
  local levels can success be achieved. Many cities
  are now taking the initiative to reduce their
  impact on the global climate.
• By 2030, two-thirds of humanity will live in
  cities or urban areas. Half already do. Even now,
  cities consume 75 per cent of the worlds energy
  and are responsible for 80 per cent of carbon
  dioxide emissions. Moreover, all cities are
  highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate
  change, and none more so than fast growing cities
  in developing countries. About 20 of the 30
  largest cities of the world are situated on low
  lying coasts. Rising sea levels of a few metres
  would have catastrophic implications. So theres
  an extraordinary responsibility and motivation
  for cities to act. It is at city level that
  innovation and progress on climate change action
  is most likely to be achieved.

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• Joseph Stalin's disturbing words
• "One death is a tragedy a million is a
  statistic.
• It's a horrible quote, but when it comes to
  statistics - this seems increasingly the case.
  Are forgetting that every one of those numbers
  has real life attached to it? There are emotions
  and feelings. Life is complex. Data represents
  life, and therein lies the purpose and meaning of
  these numbers and information. The following
  number represent men, women and children.

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• The Numbers

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• The research on the human costs of pollution and
  pollution-related diseases estimated that around
  21,000 people in Canada will die from breathing
  in toxic substances drifting in the air this year
  with 3,000 of those deaths due to short-term
  exposure to smog.

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• In Ontario, the number of "smog days" nearly
  quadrupled from 15 in 1995 to 53 in 2005.

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• By 2031, short term exposure to air pollution
  will claim close to 90,000 lives in Canada, while
  long-term exposure will kill more than 700,000
  citizens.

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• Ontario and Quebec residents are the worst hit
  Canadians, with 70 percent of the premature
  deaths occurring in Central Canada.

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• In the past 15 years alone, there has been a
  fourfold increase in asthma in children under 15
  in Canada.

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• If nothing is done to clean the air, medical
  experts estimate that by 2026 the number of
  smog-related premature deaths in Ontario alone
  will hit 10,000 annually.

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• OMA estimates for annual premature deaths (2130
  people) due to smog in Toronto alone were almost
  three times the number of deaths (831people)
  Health Canada attributes to secondhand smoke
  exposure for the whole of Canada.

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• In 2008, 80 per cent of those who die due to air
  pollution will be over 65.

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• 25 Canadians under 19 will die from short-term
  acute pollution exposure this year.

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• A childs breathing zone is lower than adults so
  they are more exposed to vehicle exhausts and
  heavier pollutants that concentrate at lower
  levels in the air.

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• Children are the most vulnerable breathing 50
  more air per pound than adults.

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• Toronto's medical officer has released a report
  stating a 30 reduction in vehicle emissions
  could save 68,000 asthma attacks for children a
  year. 

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• The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated
  that the number of children dying from asthma
  each year could increase by 20 per cent by 2016
  if urgent action was not taken to reduce
  emissions from vehicles and factories.

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• In 2008 there will more than 9,000 hospital
  visits and 30,000 emergency room visits, and
  620,000 doctor's office visits, stemming from air
  pollution.

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• Eight thousand people a day die from air
  pollution. There are 3 million annual deaths,
  worldwide.

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• Emissions from an individual idling a car in an
  average size municipality will emit nearly the
  same amount of emissions volume as the total
  annual emissions from an individual in
  Bangladesh. 

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• More than 20 million people have been displaced
  by climate-related sudden-onset natural disasters
  in 2008 alone, according to a new study by OCHA
  and the Norwegian Refugee Councils (NRC)
  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

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• The total number of people affected by natural
  disasters due to accelerating climate change has
  risen sharply over the past 10 years, with an
  average of 211 million people directly affected
  each year, nearly five times the number impacted
  by conflict in the same period.

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• April 2009 CO2 hits 800,000-year high at Mauna
  Loa Observatory Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii
  (USA) Atmospheric CO2 reached 389.47 parts per
  million (ppm).

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• June 10th, 2009 co2 went up again.
•   It is now at 390.18

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• The human respiratory system can only handle an
  upper level of 426 ppmv before the blood begins
  to become acidic after long-term exposure. 
• Climate change is the biggest global health
  threat of the 21st century

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• The Costs

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• The national economy air pollution will top
  eight billion dollars in 2008, and by 2031 it
  will go over 250 billion. 

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• The Ontario Medical Association estimated that
  health care costs caused by poor air quality in
  2000 would amount to nearly 630 million, not to
  mention the 566 million in costs due to workers
  taking sick days.

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• In Ontario alone, lost productivity will cost
  Canada 349,400 this year. By 2031 that will
  total over 9 million in damage.

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• Healthcare costs in the province will be
  221,800 this year, up to almost 6.5 million
  total by 2031.

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• Economic damage to quality of life will hit
  194,100 in Ontario in 2008, up to 265,000 in
  2031 and totalling almost 5.5 million by that
  time.

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• Economic damage due to loss of life will cost
  3,644,100 in 2008, rising to 6,367,200 in 2031,
  and totalling 115,674,500 by 2031.

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• Air Releases of Carcinogens by Province
• Rank Provinces Air Releases of Toxicsof
  Carcinogens (kg) Percentage

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• Prince Edward Island . 26
• Northwest Territories .41
• Newfoundland .91

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• Nova Scotia 1.36
• Saskatchewan 1.62
• Manitoba 5.16
• New Brunswick 5.47

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• British Columbia 11. 13
• Quebec 17.61
• Alberta 17. 91
• Ontario 38. 18
• Air Releases of Toxicsof Carcinogens

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• Ontario's smog causes 9,500 deaths per year,
  medical association says.  Of these 1,000
  occurred  immediately after times of intense
  pollution.

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Drive-thrus Sixty percent of the 129 billion
dollar per year industry takes place at the
drive-thru window. Welcome to the Denialism
Industry

• This strategy of manufacturing scientific
  uncertainty comes directly from the industrys
  denialism playbook. The industry invests big
  money for public relations campaign to raise
  doubts about the increasingly definitive
  scientific evidence. They realize that if you
  could argue about the science, then you can stop
  municipalities from trying to address the
  problem.  If the new science which is bought
  and paid by industry doesnt work, they fall back
  on the argument of choice whatever the risk
  to society, it the citizens right to do so. This
  is just another example of industrys scientific
  consultants who specialize in product defense.
  Not unlike tobacco, oil and climate change. 
  Corporate spin experts have recognized that
  manufacturing doubt works and if they do it well
  they can stop government legislation, or at least
  slow them down for years.  This is a growing
  trend that disingenuously demands proof over
  precaution in the realm of public health.
• Drive Thru Resources
• http//drivethrulies.wordpress.com/the-need-to-st
  art-somewhere/

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• Drive-thrus - Think the impact is insignificant?
  Think again.
• idling-report-markham1
• We have used the calculations provided to us in
  this study (idling times are completely in line
  with Tim Hortons own study (3-4.5 minutes)
  with the national average of 3.84 seconds) to
  produce a very conservative number for the total
  number of emissions, etc. produced in London
  drive-thrus.
• London has 156 drive-thrus so we have based
  our amounts on (29 x 5) 145 as opposed to 156 to
  keep our results conservative.
• Here are the results (City of London only)
• Idling time 108, 795, 760 minutes.
• Fuel Wasted 2, 175, 925 litres of fuel wasted.
• Emissions 590 tons of carbon dioxide other
  pollutants.
• To offset this amount of pollutants in one year
  we would need to plant 29,220 trees.
• Fuel wasted enough for an average car to
  circle the globe 425 times.
• And this is ONLY London based on only 145
  drive-thrus. Imagine the result from all cities
  in Ontario, in Canada, in North America, in the
  world.
• For more info. on this study (data) please
  contact us at councilofcanadians.london_at_sympatico.
  ca

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Industry Greenwash poster from London, Ontario
duplicated in British Columbia. Note statement
Fact ZERO Environmental Benefit.
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• Climate policy and environmental policy is
  characterized by the habituation of low
  expectations and a culture of failure. There is
  an urgent need to understand global warming and
  the tipping points for dangerous impacts that we
  have already crossed as a sustainability
  emergency that takes us beyond the politics of
  failure-inducing compromise.  

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• CAPE Canadian Association of Physicians for
  the Environment represents 4,000 physicians
  across Canada.  They urge municipalities across
  Canada to pass the strongest anti-idling bylaws
  possible. The Toronto medical health officer
  recently asked the City of Toronto to amend the
  citys existing bylaw to 10 seconds.
• http//www.cape.ca/

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• Finally, while we grasp with how we can cut back
  our emissions lets look at annual tons of CO2
  per person and reflect Annual tons of CO2 per
  person

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• Ethiopia .01
• India 1.1
• China 3.2
• Sweden 5.6

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• France 6.2
• UK 9.4
• Japan 9.7
• Germany 9.8

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• CANADA 17.9
• USA 19.8
• Its us, the one billion affluent people of the
  world whose footprints are crushing the planet. 
  Surely we can all agree this is grossly
  unethical.  Climate change today accounts for
  over 300,000 deaths throughout the world each
  year.

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• Children are the most vulnerable in our
  society. It is the responsibility of every adult
  citizen on our global planet to take every
  precaution to protect our children and mitigate
  against climate change.  Just as all children
  must have the right to clean drinking water, all
  children must have the right to breathe clean
  air.

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• Idling is systemic of a much bigger problem.
• That of a car culture phenomenon, a culture of
  self entitlement and our choice to destroy our
  shared environment. Our shared natural
  environment has become a toxic dumping ground.
• We are paying the highest price
• Today we are living in what scientists call the
  sixth extinction.  The fastest die off of
  species the Earth has ever seen. The biodiversity
  crisis is due to the destruction of ecosystems,
  the overexploitation of species and natural
  resources, overpopulation, the spread of
  agriculture and livestock, and pollution - all
  contributing to ever accelerating global warming
  caused by humans.
• We are conducting a vast toxicological
  experiment in which our children and our
  children's children are the experimental
  subjects

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CBC Video Now Online The Disappearing Male -
Doc Zone CBC-TV

• http//www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disap
  pearingmale/
• The Disappearing Male is about one of the most
  important, and least publicized, issues facing
  the human species the toxic threat to the male
  reproductive system.
• The last few decades have seen steady and
  dramatic increases in the incidence of boys and
  young men suffering from genital deformities, low
  sperm count, sperm abnormalities and testicular
  cancer. Some researchers say that declining male
  fertility rates could be the first sign of
  extinction.
• Health
• http//www.environmentaldefence.ca/
• http//www.cape.ca/
• http//www.ewg.org/

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Ecology and economy are interdependent.  Both
words have a common root the Greek word "oikos"
which means home. A whole earth economy is an
economy based on the happiness, the health and
essential needs of the people and its inhabitants
an intensification and a flourishing of of all
the service and trading activites that create and
support the integrity, resiliance and beauty of
lifes commonwealth.  It recognizes the earth has
ecological limits and that if these limits are
not respected there will be a negative effect on
the social systems and ecosystems that make up
the commonwealth of life on which we depend.  We
have wildly surpassed these limits in an
unprecedented way.  We must stop counting the
consumption of natural capital as income. Bold
new visions of interrelated environmental,
economic and social challenges, including
economic reform and ethical governance is only
possible with bold, visionary leaders.  There is
no reason in the world we cannot build a green,
healthy economies where all life flourishes. 
   LISTEN Download "The New Ecology" podcast
and get the extended "What if ecology mattered?"
conversation with William Rees.
http//www.alternativesjournal.ca/podcasts/the-n
ew-ecology-issue-354 William Rees, co-author of
Our Ecological Footprint, is a human ecologist
and ecological economist at the University of
British Columbias School of Community and
Regional Planning. If you want to know who is
going to change this country, take a look in the
mirror. Maude Barlow

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• A Transition to A Whole Earth, Steady State
  Economy is Essential
• Everything began with the industrial revolution
  in 1750, which gave birth to the capitalist
  system. In two and a half centuries, the so
  called developed countries have consumed a
  large part of the fossil fuels created over five
  million centuries.Competition and the thirst for
  profit without limits of the capitalist system
  are destroying the planet. Under Capitalism we
  are not human beings but consumers. Under
  Capitalism mother earth does not exist, instead
  there are raw materials. Capitalism is the source
  of the asymmetries and imbalances in the world.
  It generates luxury, ostentation and waste for a
  few, while millions in the world die from hunger
  in the world. In the hands of Capitalism
  everything becomes a commodity the water, the
  soil, the human genome, the ancestral cultures,
  justice, ethics, death and life itself.
  Everything, absolutely everything, can be bought
  and sold and under Capitalism. And even climate
  change itself has become a business. Climate
  change has placed all humankind before great
  choice to continue in the ways of capitalism and
  death, or to start down the path of harmony with
  nature and respect for life.
• Redesigning the Way We Think Live
• http//www.happyplanetindex.org/engage/charter.ht
  ml
• http//www.neweconomics.org/gen/

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Evo Morales Save the Planet from Capitalism

• Today, our Mother Earth is ill. From the
  beginning of the 21st century we have lived the
  hottest years of the last thousand years. Global
  warming is generating abrupt changes in the
  weather the retreat of glaciers and the decrease
  of the polar ice caps the increase of the sea
  level and the flooding of coastal areas, where
  approximately 60 of the world population live
  the increase in the processes of desertification
  and the decrease of fresh water sources a higher
  frequency in natural disasters that the
  communities of the earth suffer1 the
  extinction of animal and vegetal species and the
  spread of diseases in areas that before were free
  from those diseases.One of the most tragic
  consequences of the climate change is that some
  nations and territories are the condemned to
  disappear by the increase of the sea level.
• Read Full Opinion Piece Here
  http//councilofcanadianslondon.wordpress.com/2008
  /12/19/climate-change-save-the-planet-from-capital
  ism-evo-morales/

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Achievements You Will Not Read About in the MSM
(Main Stream Media)

• Ecuador first to legislate rights for nature 10
  December 2008
• Ecuador Approves New Constitution Voters
  Approve Rights of NatureEcuador First Country
  in the World to Shift to Rights-Based
  Environmental Protection, Working With Legal
  Defense Fund
• By an overwhelming margin, the people of Ecuador
  today voted for a new constitution that is the
  first in the world to recognize legally
  enforceable Rights of Nature, or ecosystem
  rights. The Community Environmental Legal Defense
  Fund is pioneering this work in the U.S., where
  it has assisted more than a dozen local
  municipalities with drafting and adopting local
  laws recognizing Rights of Nature. Ecuador is now
  the first country in the world to codify a new
  system of environmental protection based on
  rights. With this vote, the people of Ecuador are
  leading the way for countries around the world to
  fundamentally change how we protect nature.
  Article 1 of the new "Rights for Nature" chapter
  of the Ecuador constitution reads "Nature or
  Pachamama, where life is reproduced and exists,
  has the right to exist, persist, maintain and
  regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions
  and its processes in evolution. Every person,
  people, community or nationality, will be able to
  demand the recognitions of rights for nature
  before the public bodies."

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• Could We Pass Such a Law in North American?
  Probably Not. Why?
• 1- Apathy caused by a complete disconnect from
  our shared natural environment
• 2- Entitlement which has been cultivated in the
  very essence of our being in North America
• 3- Corporations are now more powerful than our
  governments
• 4- The average citizen is being kept in the dark
  on the severity of climate change and the
  implications
• Solutions
• 1- Seek out Independent Media
• 2- Reconnect Children with Nature
• 3- Mandatory ecoliteracy courses including
  precautionary principle in work places and all
  levels of government
• 4- Utilize waiting times in the health sector
  with education. Replace television shows in
  waiting rooms with documentaries. Replace
  irrelevant reading material / magazines with
  those which focus on climate change and health.

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• Teach Ecoliteracy in all Levels of Government
• For those in leadership roles and decision making
  capacity - knowledge of climate change,
  sustainability and environmental degradation
  should not be optional
• The City of Albuquerque began delivering
  Sustainability Awareness Training in fall of
  2007. Training sessions were available daily from
  October 8-12 and November 13-17, during which
  time 3,800 employees were trained.
• http//www.cabq.gov/albuquerquegreen/see-it-green-
  reporting

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• Direct Action
• I believe weve reached the stage where it is
  time for civil disobedience. Al Gore, Clinton
  Global Initiative, Sept. 25, 2008

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• The Reverse Graffiti Project Art less
  pollution
• This is what you may call reverse graffiti.
  Brazilian streetartist
• Alexandre Orion removes soot to draw skulls and
  create Art less pollution.
• At dawn on July 13, 2006, Brazilian streetartist
  Alexandre Orion started working on a intervention
  in the Max Feffer tunnel Sao Paulo and created
  Art less pollution. The intervention was
  through a process of subtraction, scraping off
  layers of soot from vehicle exhaust built up on
  tunnel walls to produce images of human skulls.
• Read more about the intervention and see
  pictures at Alexandre Orions website.
• VIDEO
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vJwsBBIIXT0Eeurlh
  ttp//www.facebook.com/home.php
• Capitalism strikes again Note that since this
  time GreenWorks Clorox Corporation has
  purchased this video for an advertising campaign.
  

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Under the Radar Le Clan du Néon

• Lights Out Activists on Anti-Neon Crusade in
  France. By Adam Sage, Times (UK), November 8,
  2008. "Meet Le Clan du Néon, an increasingly
  popular environmental movement that wants to make
  the City of Lights a little darker. One tactic is
  to turn off neon shop signs at night by reaching
  the external fire switches that control them,
  usually found two or three metres up the
  façade... Le Clan was set up in Paris, but its
  light-hearted and low-tech activist approach to
  ecology has been a hit across the country with
  students, many of whom see the antineon activity
  as a nocturnal lark. Groups have sprung up in
  Normandy, Bordeaux, the Alps and Dordogne.
  Members from the latter have posted an internet
  video that says that in a region bereft of night
  life, turning out the high street lighting is as
  good a way of passing the time as any... The
  thousands of shop signs left on at night in
  Europe consume tens of gigawatt hours of
  electricity a year. In France, where the nuclear
  industry supplies 80 per cent of electricity, the
  result is more radioactive waste. Elsewhere, it
  is hundreds of tonnes of CO2 emissions. 'If all
  the neon signs in the world were turned off, the
  impact on global warming would be very
  significant,' said Nicolas, 28, another Le Clan
  member. 'There ought to be a law against it, but
  since there isn't, we have to go around doing it
  ourselves.
• Full Article http//www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne
  ws/world/europe/article5110640.ece
• Video http//www.youtube.com/watch?viq6j3O6wAdE
  

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• Today's protesters, tomorrow's saviours.
• It is pertinent to ask what view our
  great-grandchildren will take when they look back
  in 100 years. The slow cooking of the planet is
  quite distinct from other disputes today. With
  climate change, the ultimate question is whether
  humans can continue to live on this planet at
  all.
• Plane Stupid Direct Action Group. They were
  disruptive and controversial to say the least.
  Spied upon, locked up and lambasted by the
  establishment of their time. The state considered
  them to be dangerous terrorists and, as Tony Benn
  put it, "Newsnight would have treated the
  suffragettes as trouble-makers." But those women
  who battled for gender equality were later
  vindicated by history. I suppose it's a testament
  to their success that the Climate Change
  Secretary, Ed Miliband, was citing them as an
  example of the sort of movement we need on global
  warming, adding, "Maybe it's an odd thing for
  someone in government to say." Certainly an odd
  thing for someone in government. Put against a
  context of the average Brit emitting 11 tonnes of
  CO2 a year, today's activity didn't just get the
  nation talking, it had a real impact. Like the
  Kingsnorth 6, who shut down one of the dirtiest
  coal plants in Britain and were later acquitted
  by a jury of 12 ordinary people, Plane Stupid
  just made history. Seriously what people will
  think about this protest in 100 years from now?
  Will that generations' politicians be lauding
  today's action as a model for defeating their
  eras' defining challenge?

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• Direct Action Becomes Cool
• Interesting enough Lush produces a product
  called the charity pot where all the proceeds are
  donated to worthy causes. One of the groups to
  benefit is Plane Stupid. Others range from
  Butterfly Conservation to Reprieve, the human
  rights charity.
• Lush states they believe that there is a long
  tradition of using non-violent protest to create
  change where other means have failed.
  Highlighting the constant growth of habits we
  know we can't sustain, as Plane Stupid has, they
  see as laudatory.
• http//www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/
  12/theairlineindustry-climatechange

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• Drive Thru Resources
• http//drivethrulies.wordpress.com/the-need-to-st
  art-somewhere/
• World News on Pollution Climate Change
• http//www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-cha
  nge
• http//www.guardian.co.uk/environment/pollution
• Health
• http//www.environmentaldefence.ca/
• http//www.cape.ca/
• http//www.ewg.org/
• Redesigning the Way We Think Live
• http//www.happyplanetindex.org/engage/charter.ht
  ml
• http//www.neweconomics.org/gen/
• Example of leading Idling Initiatives and Bylaw
  in Canada (Burlington)
• http//canadianclimateaction.files.wordpress.com/
  2009/07/idling-burlington-initiatives-fleur.pdf
• Lastly - for Inspiration
• Essential Reading Paul Hawken You are
  Brilliant the Earth is Hiring
• http//www.up.edu/commencement/default.aspx?cid9
  456pid3144