#Environment
Target:
Governor Charlie Crist
Region:
United States of America

A crisis that threatens the integrity of our planet and the future of our children is at stake. Climate change will have a devastating impact on the world if we do not take action to curb Green House Gases and Carbon Emissions.

The massive ice sheets in the Arctic are melting at alarming rates. This is causing the oceans to rise. Most of the world’s population lives on or near the coasts. Rising ocean levels, an estimated six feet over the next 100 years or sooner, will cause massive devastation and economic catastrophe to population centers worldwide. Diseases like malaria, dengue fever and encephalitis will infect millions of people as a direct result of climate change.

As temperatures rise, disease-carrying mosquitoes and rodents spread, infecting people in their wake. Doctors at the Harvard Medical School have linked recent U.S. outbreaks of dengue fever, malaria, hantavirus and other diseases directly to climate change. Super powerful hurricanes, fueled by warmer ocean temperatures are the “smoking gun” of global warming. Since 1970, the number of category 4 and 5 events has jumped sharply. Human activities are adding an alarming amount of pollution to the earth’s atmosphere causing catastrophic shifts in weather patterns. These shifts are causing severe heat, floods and worse.

We the undersigned request Governor Charlie Crist to bring about legislation in the great state of Florida that would require public schools to teach classes to educate the youth about the effects of global climate change and how to protect and save our planet from the disasters that lay ahead of us.

The children of today have the ability to educate their parents about the catastrophes that lay ahead of the entire human race and how they can make a difference today in curbing Green House Gases. Knowledge is the first step to making individual changes that collectively can make a tremendous difference.

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The Support Global Warming Educational Classes in Florida petition to Governor Charlie Crist was written by Bryan and is in the category Environment at GoPetition.