Please take the time to read this message I was sent, and decide if you want to count too and show we care:

Hello Chris,

We have to talk some climate sense into the leaders of the world’s richest countries. Before it’s too late.

All that’s needed from you is to join one quick, cost effective petition. It’s simple, but rarely does a petition matter more.

Now is the time, because the leaders of the world’s richest countries, a group known as the G8 and which includes the UK, is about to meet between June 6-8th. They’ll be at the rather pleasant seaside resort of Heiligendamm on the north German coast. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is hosting the meetings, and will decide the agenda.

We know already that the G8 leaders will talk about climate change, and they will talk about its impact on development and the world’s poorest people.

Merkel, and Blair, want to do the right thing. We have to show we care, so they have the courage and momentum to persuade the leaders at the G8 to act.

The world can’t wait, because the poorest countries are already being hit hardest by climate chaos. In parts of Africa millions of people are already feeling the devastating effects of freak weather that is quickly becoming more frequent. Too much rain, or not enough, is a matter of life or death. And predictions are that increases in temperature in Africa will be double the global average ~ the deadly extremes will get worse.

Yet the typical person living in somewhere like Mozambique will use less energy (and create less pollution) in a year than we will use in 3.5 days. They have the least to do with climate change, and the most to lose.

So join that simple, cost effective petition now. Let’s not wait about, we don’t have time.

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Biofuels. Its a nice concept, and most people would immediately equate the phrase with it being a 'green, ecological' answer and solution to the never ending issues of pollution and carbon emissions.

In theory, it is. Or rather it could be.

In practice however, the solutions being touted at the moment are very reactionary and actually potentially MORE harmful to the situation.

If the current ideas are put in place, there will actually be MORE carbon displaced as a result of MORE rainforests being decimated to make way for its production. This will by far outweigh the benefits, which are not in question, that the biofuel would bring in terms of reduced use of petrol and diesels.

So lets think a bit more, and a bit more outside of the box before we allow the governments and businesses to rush into something that has not been properly thought out or had its longer term impacts assessed. We need to ensure that the RIGHT policy is taken, and that the RIGHT standards and rules are put in place to ensure we improve rather than make things worse.

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Read the Friends of The Earth article here.

If having read about the topic you feel you want to, then let your voice be heard here and email Stephen Ladyman, Minister of State for Transport. Tell him choose the right biofuel, or the orang-utan gets it.