Reduce Your Use
From the Green Sanctuary Committee
At the Green Sanctuary we are concerned with keeping our lives
in alignment with the knowledge that we have "Respect for the
interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part."
This insight guides us to make personal and political choices to
sustain the web of life for all beings on an ongoing basis. As we
have been learning more about global warming as something to be
concerned about, we need to consider what the experts say about
the possibility of the potential impact of increased production
of oil from Tar Sands in Canada.
According to top NASA climatologist James Hansen, if President
Obama approves the building of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada
to Texas, the level of 350 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere will be
passed. This level is considered to be the mark past which the impact
of global warming will be tremendous and most likely not reversible.
All major environmental agencies agree on this.
To raise awareness about this project, a large civil disobedience
protest recently took place in Washington DC. 1,243 people were
arrested (including our own Susan Krcmar had the privilege to be
one of them) to bring attention to this monumental issue, asking
President Obama not to allow this project. Nine Nobel Peace Laureates,
including the Dalai Lama and Bishop Tutu, sent a signed letter to
President Obama asking him to stop the proposed pipeline construction.
It is the President's decision; he is under extreme pressure from
the huge oil industry but he needs to hear from all of us! He alone
decides if this dangerous pipeline will be built or not. Congress
is not involved.
Please do your part! Visit: www.dirtyoilsands.org for information
about this issue. Please click on Take Action; it will enable you
to send a letter to President Obama and please share this information
with your family and friends! Visit youtube.com
for a video which is done very well visually. As you watch it, remember
that this oil extraction means ethnocide for native people who live
on the land; their water is poisoned, their lifestyle is completely
changed and they are dying of unusual cancers in great numbers!
We are concerned for them and for everyone on earth who will suffer
more severe climate change if this oil is allowed to be extracted
from the earth and used.
Do this for your sake, for the sake of the future and the next
generations, and for our great Mother Earth!
Silke Springorum
The Green Sanctuary Committee
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