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Fwd: Saving the Artic - please forward to friends
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Outcalt)
Wed Jul 11 10:24:29 2001
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From: Jan Outcalt <jano@MIT.EDU>
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> The Arctic Refuge represents everything spectacular and everything
>endangered about America's natural heritage: a million years of ecological
>serenity . . . vast expanses of untouched wilderness . an irreplaceable
>sanctuary for polar bears, white wolves and 130,000 caribou that return
>here
>each year to give birth and rear their young.
>
> For 20,000 years -- literally hundreds of generations, the native Gwich'in
>people have inhabited this sacred place,following the caribou herd and
>leaving the awe-inspiring landscape just as they found it. Our own
>presidents
>going back to Eisenhower have kept a bipartisan promise to safeguard this
>world-class natural treasure. But not THIS president. It is a sad day
>indeed
>when our president and congressional leaders would sacrifice America's
>largest wildlife refuge for the sake of a possible six-month supply of
>national energy. A six-month supply! We
> could save that little oil by improving the fuel efficiency of cars and
>light trucks by a mere one mile per gallon.
>
> Only one group of Americans will benefit from the destruction of the Arctic
>Wildlife Refuge: the oil giants. Everyone else loses. Arctic wildlife
>populations will decline, the Gwich'in people will see their land marred by
>pipelines and poisoned by oil spills, you and I will become even more
>dependent on oil, and the planet will suffer catastrophic global warming
>from
>the burning of even more fossil fuel.
>
> Unless we get millions of Americans to lodge a protest right now, this
>nightmarish scenario may well come to pass in the next two months. The
>Republican energy bill, which would fulfill the president's promise to
>drill
>the Arctic Refuge, is moving through Congress today. House and Senate
>leaders
>may also try to sneak through the Arctic drilling provision by attaching it
>to a "must-pass" appropriations bill. These votes will be decided by the
>moderates in both parties. We must reach those moderates and hold them
>accountable. Here's what you can do: go to
>
> http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic
>
> The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has set up this new website to
> make it extremely easy for you to send messages of protest to your senators
>and representatives. It will take you only a minute.
>
> I've been on NRDC's board for 25 years, so I know how effective they are at
>waging and winning environmental campaigns. Last year, NRDC used web
>activism
>to help generate a million messages of protest to Mitsubishi and
> stopped the company from destroying the last unspoiled birthing ground of
>the Pacific gray whale. We'll win this time too if each of us does our part
>for the Arctic Refuge. Please visit
>
> http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic
>
> right now. And forward my message to your family, friends and colleagues.
>Congress cannot ignore millions of us. If we let them plunder our greatest
>wildlife refuge for the sake of oil company profits, then no piece of our
>natural heritage is safe from destruction. Please go to
> http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic and help keep the Arctic wild and free.
>
Jan Outcalt
Administrative Assistant (temp to perm)
Center for Advanced Nuclear Studies
MIT
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