[sustran] Re: CLIMATE-ONLINE: Climate Online: URGENT ACTION!! Email Exxon Now!!

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Nick Rau wrote:
> 
> Dear Climate Online Campaigner
> 
> **Urgent Action**Urgent Action**Urgent Action**
> 
> Today marks the beginning of the most important climate negotiations
> since the '92 Rio Summit.  Without a commitment to urgent action, many
> hundreds of thousands of people will suffer the impacts of dangerous
> climate change.  Progress is being blocked by the lobbying efforts of
> fossil fuel industries bent on protecting their vested interests.
> 
> Of the world's oil companies EXXON - ESSO has proved itself the most
> determined to wreck international efforts to combat the problem of
> climate change, and curb C02 pollution from fossil fuels.  For more
> information on Exxon, see the foot of this letter.
> 
> Tell them what you think about their climate position.  PLEASE SEND AN
> EMAIL to Lee R. Raymond, Chairman and Chief Executive of Exxon, via:
> Ian.W.Upson at Exxon.sprint.com
> 
> Please send your message TODAY.  Hundreds of other people around the
> world will be doing the same.  You are part of a huge global network of
> concerned citizens dedicated to taking action to stop dangerous climate
> change and protect the planet for future generations.
> 
> **What you have to do:**
> 
> To save time we have put together a message for you to forward to
> Lee R. Raymond (see below).  All you need to do is follow these
> simple steps:
> 
> 1)  Press your forward button
> 2)  Put in the Exxon email address
> 3)  cc your message to us at: notify at foe.co.uk
> 4)  Create your own subject line (eg Act Now to Stop Climate Change)
> 5)  Before sending your message, delete everything outside the
> asterisks, ie these instructions, leaving just the message to Exxon.
> 6)  Write your name at the bottom of the letter.
> 7)  Press your send button
> 
> Friends of the Earth is providing daily updates from the climate
> negotiations in Kyoto.  Visit the Friends of the Earth Climate Web Site
> on  http://www.foe.co.uk/climatechange/index.html
> 
> MESSAGE TO EXXON FOLLOWS:
> ************************************************************************
> email address: Ian.W.Upson at Exxon.sprint.com
> 
> Dear Lee R. Raymond
> 
> At the UN climate negotiations now taking place in Kyoto, Japan, world
> leaders will be considering proposals for the reduction of greenhouse
> gas emissions.  There is substantial scientific consensus that increased
> emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels is making a
> significant contribution to climate change, and that the economic
> impacts of inaction outweigh those of implementing preventative
> measures.
> 
> The Global Climate Coalition is attempting to influence the outcome of
> negotiations to prevent industrialised nations setting targets and
> timetables to prevent dangerous climate change.
> 
> Action by industrialised nations, as those responsible for the current
> burden of anthropogenic carbon dioxide, is a necessary first step in
> averting the climate change threat, and setting an example of good
> practice for newly industrialising nations.
> 
> I urge you to terminate your company's membership of the GCC, and to
> instead support calls for a 20% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions
> from Annex 1 nations by 2005, as a first step in combatting what could
> be global catastrophe.
> 
> Yours sincerely
> 
> (your name)
> 
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> Read on for more information on Exxon's activities.
> > On October 13th this year the Chairman of EXXON, Lee Raymond, stood up
> > before an large international industry gathering in China and urged
> > developing countries not to agree to limits on burning fossil fuels.
> > Raymond insisted that 'the case for so called global warming is far
> > from air tight'. Such statements of course contradict the world's top
> > climate scientists {on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
> > (IPCC)} who stated in 1995 that 'there is now a discernible human
> > impact on the world's climate'.
> >
> > Unfortunately for everyone who needs a stable climate Raymond also
> > went on to urge developing countries (notably China) to address their
> > environmental problems by 'increasing, not curtailing, the use of
> > fossil fuels'. Perhaps a reference to EXXON - ESSO's designs on the
> > emerging petrol markets of Asia.
> >
> > EXXON - ESSO have also been a major sponsor of the GCC. Dr Brian
> > Flannery, former Chairman of the GCC, is directly employed by EXXON.
> >
> > The GCC, a fossil fuel industry lobby group, are at the forefront of a
> > massive advertising (US$13M) and disinformation campaign in the US,
> > attempting to derail climate negotiations with scare mongering about a
> > mythical economic collapse from efforts to reduce consumption of
> > fossil fuels such as oil.
> >
> > EXXON have also been involved in a gross duplicity in their
> > destructive efforts. In his speech Raymond urges developing countries
> > to increase, not curtail their C02 emissions. At the same time back
> > home in the US EXXON have led the charge in demanding that
> > these exact same developing countries should not be left out of any
> > global agreements to reduce emissions, as this might unfairly impact
> > on US industry.
> >
> > EXXON are one of the oldest and largest oil companies in the
> > world, their petroleum sales amount to approximately 9% of total world
> > sales. They generate around US$130billion per year, with Europe
> > accounting for approximately US$40billion in sales. Their position on
> > climate change is the most self-serving of any of the oil companies,
> > and their wrecking efforts are extremely harmful to any possible
> > international political solution to the climate change problem.