Top Environmentalists Call on Foundations to Turn the Tide on Global Warming

| September 18, 2014 | Leave a Comment

Date of Publication: September 16, 2014

Year of Publication: 2014

Publisher: TriplePundit

Author(s): Sherrell Dorsey

A group of award-winning environmental laureates, issued the Declaration on Climate Change:

“Aghast that the Earth is heading for 4 to 6 degrees celsius of global warming, given current policies on the burning of coal, oil and gas

“Terrified that we will lose our ability to feed ourselves, run out of potable water, increase the scope for war, and cause the very fabric of civilization to crash as a consequence of the climate change that global overheating will bring about

“Devastated that our governments have not succeeded yet in slowing, much less stopping, the flow of greenhouse gases into our thin tmosphere, in the full knowledge of these risks, despite a quarter century of trying…

“We, 160 winners of the world’s environmental prizes call on foundations and philanthropists everywhere to deploy their endowments immediately in the effort to save civilization”

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