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| We advocate reflecting the sun back into the atmosphere because it will keep the planet cooler and it can be easily achieved by painting all roofs or any horizontal outdoor structures, vehicles, etc...white, as well as making the "white choice" when purchasing items for outdoors, and the positive outcome will be a stabilized earth albedo giving us a little extra time while we implement the changes required to stop anthropogenic global warming. | |||||||||
| If we cannot save the polar bear...what makes us believe that we will be able to save the polar ice fields and ice shelves? (There are already 2 degrees Celsius built in world global temperature increase and more to come...) | |||||||||
| If we cannot save the polar ice fields and ice shelves...what makes us think that we are going to save all the smaller glaciers in the world, the Himalayan ice fields, Antarctica ice shelves and Greenland ice sheet? | |||||||||
| If we cannot save all the smaller glaciers in the world, the Himalayan ice fields, Antarctica ice shelves and Greenland ice sheet...how are we going to save Antarctica ice sheet? | |||||||||
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Antarctica ice sheet...how on earth are we going to save civilization? (Read "The Race To Save Civilization" article by Lester Brown) |
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| Key fact: When you look at the leading scientists who have made any sort of statement about anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change, you find 97 percent of those Stanford team determined top 100 surveyed scientists explicitly agreeing with or endorsing the IPCC's assessment and that result has been borne out by several other published studies that used different methodology. | |||||||||
| Origin of the name White Earth: The Inuit (indigenous people inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada, Alaska and Greenland) name for Greenland is Kalallit Nunaat which translates to white earth. | |||||||||
| "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." - Haida outlook on life and Earth | |||||||||
| "People who are of ruling quality but are not able to respectfully preserve the forests, rivers and marshes are not fit to become rulers." Chinese saying Eastern Zhou period – 700-256 B.C. | |||||||||
| WhiteEarth: we do what we do for the children of the earth: The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes - Video | |||||||||
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Nominations are now officially
open for the 2011 Champions of the Earth - the United Nations' flagship
environmental award. If you think WhiteEarth.org should be nominated, let
them know:
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=647&ArticleID=6736&l=en |
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