As we gear up for an intense month of global warming action in Washington, we pause to honor Earth Day with this special video message, featuring several of our online activists wearing their favorite "Cap Carbon" hats.
Happy Earth Day, everyone!
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The earth one day is going to be on fire, and blow up. And a new Earth will be created with no more sin. We can't stop it. Who Cares!!
Everyday I see your global messages,….. Happy Earth Day
America MUST continue to modernize its energy systems if we are to keep up
with other nations who are moving forward with new technology in this field.
C'mon Congress–pass legislation that will keep America at the forefront of the
modern world. Capping CO2 is the right thing for the environment AND for America
in the 21st century.
Good. I watched Frontline last night which was all about the incredible water polution in our nation from factory farms and corporations not taking responsible action to curb their polutants as well as cars and polution. Congress must pass legislation to cap CO2.
Hold your breath, less you pollute.
The only people who don't want to do anything about global climate change are those who own or work for oil and coal companies. But the problem is that this small number of people have millions of dollars to lobby Congress to do nothing, or worse, something that doesn't matter.
Please everyone call or email your representatives in Congress, House and Senate, to pass historic carbon cap legislation. Thank you and Happy Earth Day.
I am absolutely amazed at the greed and indifference to what polluters are doing to our water/soil/air/.Internal pollution is our bodies trying to deal with all of the external pollution…This must stop and we must all stand up for the children and the innocent. Thanks for your work.
Blessed, Happy Earth day!
(We just planted in our garden) and fed the birds…..
Some some thoughts on earth 3 poems
Poem #1
Nature is unforgiving
If you do not respect the law of nature
Nature will destroy you
Dr Wangari Maathai
Peace Nobel Laureate
WWWamazon.earth
Reverend Eucalyptus Brasilia was beheaded some years ago by loggers. But He survived by its deep and countless roots. On Earth day 2009 from the Amazon forest a message is addressed to the mankind.
I breathe
So I exist
You breathe
So you exist
And together we exist
You live under all-Might’s protection
I live guarded by dryads’ no longer in charge
You die
By the will of God
I perish
Felled by the last strike of the axe
My fellow humans
All those who continue to live after us
Have mercy on us
And God also will have mercy on you
Look at us logs and beams
Tied up in bundles with heavy chains
Reduced to ashes in crematorium like stoves
Carried away on trailers
Thrown away on Dockers
Down to the holds of cruising ships
On the way to all continents
To be cut carved and crushed.
Fellow humans
Axe men and poachers
Respecting neither law nor religion
Watch out
Hell will break loose
Asphyxiated and incapacitated
Torn in shreds by cancer
The skin crying out against viruses
Scorched in the nearby forest
Poor creatures
So robust you seem to be
All mighty you believe you are
Shaken
By a slight puff of the wind
Chased away from your shelter
By a few loose water molecules
Drown
By irate and tiny springs
Consumed
By particles and poor little insects hardly visible
Left to your own fate in a world with no loop- hole for escape
Fellow humans
All those of you who will survive this deluge
Think of those little things yet you can revive.
Thank to a spark of your brain
A flame of your heart
Think of these little nothings
You can still create
To save the planet
To save mankind
To save your soul
Poem #2
BIRD DREAM
I am watching you pass by little bird
Watching you fly about
From flower to flower
Mad with freedom
I am watching you climb high
Far away in the sky
Woven your nest on a small vessel
Lost in the tiny ozone layers
Over running dry rivers
With a few twigs of remnant dilapidated forests
You designed and built your castle
And with the lullaby of the running spring
You shaped a landscape from your imagination
And in your short journeys
In search of happiness
Shuttling between two worlds of dream and reality
You reappear and disappear
You disappear and reappear
Just as you could wish
You are in luck’s way
Poem #3
La terre est bleue comme une orange
Paul Eluard
CITES VERTES
O Terre, bleue comme une orange
Bleu aux yeux de l’astronaute voisin du paradis
Ciel bleu
Bleu du ciel
Qui disparaît et réapparaît
Qui réapparaît et disparaît
Sous les nuages de fumée acide
Mer bleue
Bleu de la mer
Etouffé par le brut vomi des pétroliers à la dérive
Casques bleus
Bleu des gardiens de la paix
Trop souvent en déroute
Bleu des plastiques
Perdu dans les tas multicolores des bidonvilles
Terre bleue
Bleu du sang des innocents
Victimes de la violence
Flamme bleue
Bleu de la flamme source de vie qui donne la vie
O Terre bleue de la création
Terre de nos rêves bouffante de chlorophylle
II y va d’un petit effort de chacun de nous
Pour vous redonner la couleur de I’espoir
La couleur de I’espérance
Happy Earth Day!
I am a PBS supporter and I never miss NOVA or Frontline when they come on. I was not surprised when last night's Frontline showed the incredible arrogance by the big company when it comes to clean their own mess. I am a vegetarian but if I wasn’t I would stop eating chicken immediately. What frontline showed was what happens to the waste (manure) created by the millions of chickens in their farms. UNBELIEVABLE!
Bush said that companies don’t need to be told by their government how to clean after themselves “….NO REGULATIONS is needed. They can do a better job without the government on their backs” And yet time after time they have shown to us that they don’t care about people’s health, animal’s health and the Environment’s health.
The time is now congress PASS legislation to cap CO2
It's time for my husband and I to change cars. So today, Earth Day 2009, we become the proud owners of a new Honda Civic Hybrid. Yippee! This little car will not be as comfortable as our Chrysler van is, but it will use much less gas and not send nearly as much pollutants into the atmosphere as the van. We are happy.
Please make your continuing ads reflect the truth that incurable damage has been occuring for decades. I don't think the majority of people believe this now. I don't mean "Panic" ads, but truthful, stronger ones so people will know we can only stop further degradation, pollution, & death now only if we really work very hard!
Thank you for all your work so far.
Sue Lampson, Aptos, CA
I feel so sorry for you poor people who have been douped into believing all this tree hugging, the world coming to an end crap! Global warming, global cooling, global this and that, this planet goes thru cycles and it's been doing this for billions of years. Big deal, if it happens it happens and there is nothing anyone can do about it. What all this is going to show us is we built our cities too close to the banks of the rivers, lakes and oceans. It's going to show us that we over populated the earth and over built on fertal farm land that supplied food for the population. We have over fished our waters, dumped raw sewege in our lakes, rivers and water supplies, poisoned our soil with fertilizers/chimicals. The population of earth is the problem, too many people not enough food. Maybe you should concentrate of feeding the world instead of cutting the carbon foot print!
Greg,
Greenland's melting man. Some islands in the South Pacific are well on their way being drowned by the ocean. Yes there are too many people but to ignore this problem is like being told a truck is going to run you down if you drive in the middle of the road but someone who will profit from your death tells you just keep doing what your doing, it's about choice or some other BS
hi.happy earth day to all.we can save the earht with protection of environment like recycling ….
SAM&co happy eart day dont forget the urgent need of making our planet eart condussive for every one to stay
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Sorry Greg, but I don't understand how you can be so selfish when the environment is concerned. I agree with Clint… guess I'm another "tree hugger". Yea, world hunger is a major problem, but so is global warming. You can't just ignore it as if it didn't exist. Do you work at a coal company or another one that needs to pollute the earth to keep on working? That would explain your attitude and hostility in saving OUR environment.
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