Greenpeace calls for action on global climate change
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The State News has a great tradition of reporting on news that directly affects the student population. In that spirit, I want to bring attention to the local problem of global climate change. With ice caps melting and glaciers receding, hurricanes threatening our southern cities and historic wildfires ravaging the West Coast, climate change poses great challenges to our security and the very stability of our nation.
Climate change affects not only our fellow citizens, but also the students of MSU. In a state that has suffered greatly from the recession, MSU students cannot afford to allow legislators to ruin the clean Michigan air we breathe or the beautiful lakes we all love.
At MSU, we have made great strides in sustainability, from the construction of the new recycling facility to the energy-efficient Chemistry Building. Yet there remains so much to do. We still have a coal-fired power plant dumping tons of carbon into our air, and there are many other ways you and I can make MSU greener and more sustainable.
That is why I am asking you to join us and work to make sure Michigan legislators in Lansing, President Lou Anna K. Simon here on campus and President Barack Obama in Washington D.C. are fighting for the causes we believe in. We need to ensure our voices are heard, that the threat of climate change does not go unopposed, and that the people we elect are held accountable. Let’s make sure the promises Obama and our local legislators made during their campaigns are brought to fruition while they are in office.
In the next few weeks, MSU Greenpeace is going to be putting on numerous events throughout campus, from airing a movie, “The Age of Stupid,” at 8 p.m. Oct. 14 in B108 Wells Hall, to a demonstration just 10 days later on Oct. 24. We will be everywhere, raising awareness about climate change and what we can do in East Lansing to make the world more sustainable.
Please check us out on Facebook at MSU Greenpeace, or at msugreenpeace@gmail.com to find out how you can help.
Jacob Radecki
international relations and comparative cultures and politics sophomore and MSU Greenpeace campus coordinator
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Nope
(09/30/09 4:06pm)Report
Greenpeace has some good ideas, however, they are way too expensive. I know, we can raise tuition to pay for them.
MaximumBob
(10/01/09 11:33am)Report
LOL.
“The Age of Stupid”.
Hollywood and Eurotrash idiots make a movie about the effects of flying, but FLY to the New York premier (yes). They’re quoted as saying, “Some people need to fly.” (Gillian Anderson) and, in typical fashion, blame emerging nations and non-celebrities for the problem.
Environmental activists want to live like “The Jetsons”, while the rest of us live like “The Flintstones”.
MaximumBob
(10/01/09 1:06pm)Report
See it here, folks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-cvK9vxA6M
MSUAlum2001
(10/01/09 4:41pm)Report
Wow, what a joke of a letter. Half of his problems related to climate change are so full of crap it’s ridiculous.
mvt
(10/02/09 3:37pm)Report
Jacob, Your Human-caused Global Climate Change balloon springs more holes each week. Americans put it at the bottom when scoring issues that we care about.
You may want to start looking for another bandwagon since the full and final dismantling this week of the “Hockey Stick” effect. Seems the purveyor (Dr Briffa) had been claiming that the dog ate his data, but he was recently forced to provide it. Surprise! He had carefully chosen tree ring data points to get his graph to go up in the last century. When all of the data points were used the graph turned downward.
Lots of back and forth on this at icecap.us.