07 Dec Mon 2009
On Copenhagen Climate Summit-The biggest world gathering starts TODAY.What needs to be DONE LOCALLY to SAVE THE EARTH from GLOBAL WARMING
Today the biggest gathering of world leaders and representatives of 192 countries - to adress the CLIMATIC CHANGE EFFECTS ON EARTH -takes place in COPENHAGEN/DENMARK.
President Obama is expected to join world leaders by the end of the summit where an agreement is expected to be signed to counter GLOBAL WARMING BY TAKING EFFECTIVE ACTION .Read more @:
http://www.time.com/health/article/0,8599,1945939,00.html
As we farmers come to gather here at home ,celebrating the HOLLIDAYS , here are some thoughts to share about the occasion:
1-Christmass trees can be saved just like the Turkey.Why not issue a decree at the White House to do so each year on Christmass as is the habit to do like wise and save a turkey from being slaughtered on Thanksgiving!
The trees help produce oxygen and counter the warming by absorbing carbon dioxide.Hence saving on cutting Christmass trees might send a GREEN message, like the Organic Garden at the White House to help out the environment.
Read more on the costs and damage to the environment and others ,by checking out the below Mother Jones link on the subject:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/10/o-tannenbomb-merry-dangerous-christmass
2-On the Health Reform we have a new law that is being debated at the floor of the Senate which is going to be monumental when passed with the POPULAR OPTION which will protect and preserve HEALTH of the UN-INSURED .Also ,there is HR-2749 which is ONLY helpful to small farmers with an AMMENDMENT ADDED to PRESERVE and PROTECT their RIGHTS and CURRENT PRACTICES.The farmers are the KEEPERS OF THE EARTH.THEY are the ones who plant trees and seeds that produce food and OXYGEN for the LIVING EARTH and its INHABITANTS.Organic small farmers are the ones who PRACTICE SUSTAINABILITY and help the ENVIRONMENT by refraining from using CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS and PESTICIDES.Small farmers need stimulus as much as the car dealers with the CAR CLUNKERS program and now the underway stimulus for "used appliances clunker program" to come soon.Where is the stimulus to bail out the keepers of the earth who help out in countering GLOBAL WARMING by there mereacts of farming and WORKING THE LAND!?
3-Today 56 WORLD NEWSPAPERS are publishing a UNIFORM FRONT PAGE ARTICLE in 20 languages to RAISE the AWARENESS for ACTIONS and AGREEMENTS to SAVE THE EARTH.Climate Change dangers are real.If you did not watch the movie: 2012,now playing at a theatre near you,at least try to read the writings on the wall and this article !
4-We small farmers act locally to save the environment and reduce global warming by what we do for a living.Is there anyone there in Copenhagen Summit who can appreciate what we do?If yes, then may be there is hope for REAL help to the LIVING EARTH KEEPERS /small organic farmers(NOT to THE DEAD FARMERS- as previously happened!!)