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ALERT! Tell World Leaders Urgent Climate Change Action Cannot Wait for a Return to Hyper-Economic Growth

Posted on October 05, 2008

Climate change and the bad economy are both symptoms of the same growth-based ecological bubble . Tell governments to urgently address climate change despite the economic downturn, as both Wall Street and Main Street must realize that without ecosystems there can be no economyTAKE ACTION! Wall Street's sickness of growth at any cost, and its damage to both the world economy and global ecosystems, is bad news for already faltering efforts to craft a new international climate change treaty [search]. Tighter budgets and worries about jobs will surely be used at upcoming UN talks as excuses by g...

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