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Show Your Support for the Philippines and Climate Change Action While the UN is in Warsaw |
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The U.N. Climate Change Conference is meeting in Warsaw now until November 22, 2013. Here's a petition and a message from long time DFNYC member Christina Newhard:
Dear friends,
There are many ways to help Typhoon Haiyan victims. But I'm asking for just one.
Please, support Yeb Saño. He is the Philippines' lead representative at the UN Climate Change summit. The talks are happening now and for the next 2 weeks in Poland.
Sign the petition: http://act.350.org/sign/haiyan/ A year ago, he spoke on the "hundreds of thousands of people who have been rendered homeless" by a record-breaking storm in the Philippines, Typhoon Bopha. It hit a region (Mindanao) that doesn't typically experience typhoons, and killed almost 2,000 people. He broke down in tears.
That was 2012. It's now dwarfed by Typhoon Haiyan, another record-breaking storm. Bopha and Haiyan are considered abnormal, in a country where natural disasters are expected. I shudder to think what Haiyan would have done to Manila (where I was born, and where millions live), or Cebu City. The Pacific is simply warmer than it was 100 years ago, and getting warmer.
Climate change is the elephant in the room.
Please add your name. And think how else you can pressure your government to act.
In solidarity, Christina |
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Democracy for NYC (DFNYC) is committed to the ideals espoused by Democracy for America, the organization founded by Howard Dean, and the national network of local coalition groups dedicated to the same.