Meeting the climate challenge
People in the world’s poorest countries don’t need any new challenges, but they’re facing a major one that threatens all the progress they are making against poverty and disease. That challenge is climate change and in places such as Malawi, Kenya and Ethiopia, it threatens already vulnerable people with increased droughts, floods and storms, eroded coastlines, falling crop yields, and the spread of waterborne and insect-driven diseases.
We have the power to help prevent the worst of this devastation, because right now, the senate is writing a landmark climate change bill. It’s up to us to convince our senators that any legislation must help the world’s poorest people meet this climate challenge.
Take action now to ask your senators to commit 5% of any revenue generated by the climate bill to helping the world’s most vulnerable people overcome the threats posed by climate change:
http://www.one.org/us/climatefive
-Aaron Banks
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I don’t agree with this article. True is Congress and Obama can come up with much better legislation to eradicate climate change than this. Asking Congress to set aside 5% is just approving their poorly thought out plan. We need to ask Congress to scrap this bill and come up with a plan that has good science to make real change. That will impact the poorest countries of the world more positively. Don’t settle for add-on philosophy!