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Dottie Hodges, 26, USA
Please be bold in your decision to take strong, immediate action to stop global warming.

Pamela Franklin, 28, USA
Dear World Leaders,
Now's your chance to take strong action to save our planet from global warming. Use it.

Rob Fort, 27, USA
Don't you see? The effects of what we are doing to our planet are already showing, right here, in 1997.

Each and every one of us is responsible for to making sure we leave a living planet for our children. Please do your best at making this possible.

Simon Wan, 36, Thailand
Dear Madames and Sirs,
Warm congratulations on the convening of the Kyoto Summit. It is our responsibilities to make our only mother earth a better place to live in. And meanwhile, we should reach a sustainable balance between the economic development and the environment. And best wishes to each member of our WWF community.

Chris Jacobs, 53, USA
Your "job" is SO important. Without our planet, we have nothing. Please demand a reduction of greenhouse gasses. Please save our planet.

Annelisa Johnson, Australia
Australia's position on greenhouse gas emmissions is the view of Prime Minister John Howard and the coal industry, not of Australians. Australian's want greenhouse gas emmissions cut!

Timothy Lam, 15, Hong Kong
Our planet is suffering! Please take immediate actions not just statements before it's too late.

Graeme Park, 41, BRITAIN
Quick fix politics has no place here look to the future.

Conny Jensen, 40, USA
To President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore,
As I drafted a Nevada PTA resolution in 1993 to make ecology a mandatory subject in schools, I stated that the U.S. is the country that other nations look up to. If it takes a positive lead regarding the environment, so will nations!

How disappointing therefore that big (polluting) companies have the power (bought with money through lobbying) to make decisions rather than the American people themselves whom you both represent! It's a disgrace to not do what's right! Things will only get worse if action is delayed!

Please reconsider and join the world in its endeavors to improve the earth for all!!!

Michael Baird, 26, USA
What's this stuff, "Save the Planet" all about? The planet will contiue to survive. It's more than a billion years old! A billion years!! It's more like,"save the human race." Mother Earth can knock us off like a flea on dogs back. I hope everyone of these greedy leaders are still around when all hell breaks loose. To see the monster they were poking sticks at...No, I don't want to see jobs lost...I want to see new jobs created to help clean up this mess. I want to see new energy efficient technologies. It can be done, and must be done. We need support from everyone.

Meghan & AnnMarie Cremen & Hamilton, 14, U.S.A.
Save our planet. Do not let green house gases happen.

Brenda Bradley, 26, Canada
One of the main reasons given by governments for their inaction on climate change is that there are 'more immediate' concerns to deal with. Well, dealing only with those 'immediate' concerns is why there IS climate change. Think ahead. Think creatively. Take action against global warming now.

Patti Boye , 21, USA
Protect our children, our future. A greenhouse is no place to raise them. Significant reductions in greenhouse gases below 1990 levels is what is needed.

Jorge Bacelar , 38, Portugal
Leaders of the nations: your children will live in the same world as mine. They will remember your actions and decisions. Think of them and have the courage to act. Now. Not in ten years (or twenty) from today. In behalf of my children (and yours), I thank you.

Marvin George , USA
There must be something done to decrease the amount of CO2 being released inot the atmosphere. We need to get an agreement which everyone can live with.

Matthew Shepherdson, 19 , England
Will the Ministers at Kyoto please stop thinking about money for themselves, and start thinking about a basic standard of living for their grand-children. They have the power, now let us see them use it for everyone's benefit, and not just for the benefit of the corporate fat-cats. This could be our last chance. Don't squander it. Please!

Michael Baird, USA
President Clinton,
You are, as they say, "the man." You alone can make or break this conference; you alone can make or break the future of our planet, the human race. Think about it. Every president wants to go down in history for his achivements. Every president wants to set his landmark. Well, if you turn the tables at this conference, and influence other countries to clean up their polution, you may have a National Park established in your honor, like Roosevelt did. MAKE IT HAPPEN, PRESIDENT CLINTON!!!

Hans Hafner, 25, Germany
Dear Conference,
You know the facts (you really do, I believe!). If you're not going to act, who will? The media.... the businesses.....? ACT!

Pascale Morand Francis, 38, Switzerland
Hello everyone at COP3! I hope you realise that we are watching you closely. You have to come back home with a strong CO2 emissions reduction programme. You have emitted so much CO2 flying to Kyoto !

JOHN KSOULOGIS, 14, Greece
I think you must decrease the CO that's on the air by listening to all enviromental organizations

Watapanaschool Special educationschool, 8-15, Bonaire neth ant
Dear Mr Clinton,
The pupils and teachers of watapanaschool in bonaire want to request you to help convince the world to safeguard nature in all aspect. Thank you truly yours,

Payton Chung, 17, USA
Anyone who's experienced this decade's strange weather knows that global climate change isn't fiction; it's here. At current rates of greenhouse gas emission, humans will soon dig themselves into a hole we won't easily find our way out of. Industrialized nations must make real and immediate reductions in carbon emissions to make amends for our bloated, wasteful lifestyles.

Seppo Keronen, Australia
My children are too young to send this message, but you are making decisions for them!

Rodger Silvers, USA
It's time to retool industry, stop our dependency on oil, and restore the environment. Global leaders wakeup and reduce emissions 20% from 1990 levels by 2010.

Mark Pulver, 35, Australia
Australians can and do want to do their part. Don't beleive our goverments jobs lost figures, they were generated by mining/power industries. Our current engery use is so inefficient, that it is easly to reduce.

Giles Puckett, 43, Australia
Our PM John Howard is trying to protect narrow vested interests at the expense of the environment. Keep those targets binding!

Ruth Brock, 74, USA
Why don/t ALL the media draw MAJOR attention NOW to the urgent necessity for reducing global warming? I'm expecting twin grandaughters this month, and I want them--and all other children--to have a healthy world in which to grow up. WHY DOESN'T CLINTON USE HIS BULLY PULPIT??!!

Ali Dymond, 28, Australia
I wish John Howard wasn't such a "little" fool - all countries need to rethink their ideas on green house emissions NOW - I only hope that these changes are implemented and not just written about - as is the habit with ALL politicians.

Graham Miller, 37, Australia
In the words of Chief Seattle "We do not weave the web of life. We are but a strand in the web of life. What we do to the web we do to ourselves." Please think long and hard Gentlemen/Ladies.
Thankyou

Sophie Zuang, Germany
Are politicians using the Kyoto conference as a PR show for their next Election campaign?

Or assuring future financial support from the industry lobby?

When it comes to decision taking and assuming consequences even a person like vice president Al Gore is loosing his creditbility.

Only a neutral worldwide organism including represant with environmental expertise and decision takers having the objective of a long term commitment to environmental preservation is able to take valid decisions for the planets future.

Best regards
Sophie Zuang

Tim Hill, 28, Australia
Why must we continue to use greenhouse gas emitting resources when more sustainable, cheaper and efficient resources exist? When will politicians hear the cries of future generations?

Bysaeth Yolanda, 30, Switzerland
Please take a strong decision to stop global warming. Save our planet now!

Linda Bradburn, 44, Australia
It is not up to the world's children to solve environment problems. It is up to us adults to take on the legitimate responsibility of protecting their future. So many environment improvements would be easily and painlessly achieved if only we had the collective will to do it. As a health care practitioner I am aware of the need for structural/government direction for public health programs and I consider reducing global warming to be such a program.It is time we strategised on solving the issue of environmental degradation rather than argruing about it. Mobilising the boardrooms of multinationals could begin with a simple requirement for environmental impact statements to become a mandatory part of annual reports in compamies. Then we woul;d all be in a better position to make informed choices and take action.

Polly Walker, 56, USA
President Clinton -
We are counting on you to do what's right, not only for our sevles, but for generations of citizens of the world. The USA consumes far more than its fair share of the earth's resources. It is time we faced the consequences of profligate consumption. The time to face this reality is NOW, before it is too late. Please help negotiate a strong treaty on global warming and curbs on CO2 emissions in Kyoto.

Sincerely yours,
Polly Walker, MD

Carrie Mire, 22, USA
The USA is supposed to be a global leader, but we have scored LAST on the WWF scorecard. Our decision-makers must not pass up the chance to change that and take a positive leadership role in the Climate Change effort.

Donald L. Anderson, 61, USA
Make the US do the right thing. Cut emissions by 10% below 1990 by 2010. Global warming effects are threatening to life as we know it.

Mitzi Klein, 26, Australia
I would like to register my disgust at the Australian governments stance on global warming. It makes me ashamed to be Australian.

Nick Wilson, 36, Australia
Another Australian apologising for our Government! John Howard doesn't understand that being a small country (population wise), does not necessarily mean being a small-minded country.

D.C. Smith, USA
To:WWF folks
Yes, oppose net "reduction" proposals. Expanding forests is no excuse for continuing to pollute. However, we need incentives to plant more forests to reduce existing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. And your position statements, NPR soundbites, etc. on this sound like they cannot be done simultaneously. Be creative. Show some leadership. Pull this together.

KaKi Leung, 11, Canada
Make Laws for not cutting TREES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kim Carstensen, 40, Denmark
Show us some real leadership. We want to see binding commitments without loopholes.

Jonathan Bliss, 11, England
Please think of the next generation and look at the children's feelings, because it will be these people who will have to deal with the situation.

Arjaan Peree, 26, Netherlands
No time to compromise. May wisdom be your companion...

Alex Bliss, 8, England
Please look after the World. We don't want any pollution in the air. You are the adults. Do something!

Catherine Bliss, 5, England
I think you should come to where I live (Woolacombe, England) and see what the beautiful World looks like.

Andy Schalkoord, 68, USA
I was reading the paper and it said fuel rods was a great poss.Cheaper- less consumption- refinery's no layoffs etc. Why not speed this up and is good for the whole world.

Janick Grond, 38, Holland
Stop CO2, before it stops us. We've got the power to change. Wind and solar power.

Ian Dixon, Australia
our current government doesn't represent australia even as well as humans are representing life on Earth. Would all delegates please take a long view ( 100 years, say ! ) and vote "not to be hated by their children and their children" ie, to play safe with the planet. What effects are people seeing of doubling CO2 ?

Jacquelyn Wesolosky, 53, USA
Mr. Gore,
Our country has so much,we all know this. Isnt it time to give back to the world by drastically revising our thinking on our 'needs'. Lets be a leader in supporting a drastic cut in emissions which are contributing to global warming. Then lets be a leader in saving the forests.

Gary Pattenden, 23, Australia
John Howard please rethink your policies on this issue. We all know that these targets will be costly to meet, but surely it will be cheaper to prevent global warming than to reverse it. I'm sure all Australians are willing to put up with a little hardship to ensure that the future of our planet is safe. Think of your children and all of the little Australians. Don't let them be ashamed because of the decisions you make.

Farhana Sheikh, 23, Pakistan
dear leaders,
You people have the responsiblity to save this world we live in. We all, can understand that these factories are necessary for our better living. But these industries should be there for our better life, then to make our living more difficult. So please do something to save our future, to save this our mother Earth for our next generations. Our best gift to our children is, pure & clean, air to breath in, water for drinking and land to live on. Please do not let us down, we hope a lot from our leaders.

Thankyou

Mary Reside, 36, Australia
Our Prime Minister, John Howard, does not speak for all Australians. WE want a reduction in green house gas emissions. WE want to help save this planet, not destroy it. The earth must be protected from further destruction that will be detrimental not only to humans,but to all life on this planet.

Peter Vries de, 32, Netherlands
Why save our world?
Because it's the only one... Please act as if we're thinkin' about our and other lives!!!

Aad borsboom, 41, Netherlands
For my work I have to drive about 30.000 km per year. What is my alternative? If I don't, I have no work and income. If I do, it is not good for the environment. Please force everybody in my country and even in whole the world to drive less or use the train and bus. It takes more time bur saves our world. Drastic steps are not to avoid. Better take them now. Within five or ten years it can be too late.

Succes in Kyoto.

JW Van Domselaar, 39, Netherlands
A growing economy in the next 20 years is not helping our grandchildren if we do not take care of our environment now.

PLEASE, THINK BEFORE ACT!

Karlijn Holthaus, 22, Netherlands
I hope that the Kyoto conference is useful to the world. A serious consideration is needed to reduce the global warming processes for the sake of our children and the nearby future!!!!

Peter de Ruiter, 36, Netherlands
Stop wasting our planet. The future is now. Don't hope industry and consumerism will change itself. They won't. So stop gambling and pull your cards now.

Denise Longrie, 37, USA
Delegates:
There are no easy roads, only necessary ones. You know this and the world's people know this, too.
Thank you.

Pim Rooymans, 38, Netherlands
It is better to be safe than sorry. It is better to save than to be sorry. Be wise, stop global heating.

MUZIRMAN MUZIRMAN, 35, Indonesia
WE LIVE IN OUR ONE PLANET WE SHARE, ....AND CLEAN AIR.... WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO POLLUTE THE AIR WE SHARE, OTHERS HAVE RIGHT TO CLEAN AIR. THE AIR IS THE ULTIMATE NEED OF HUMAN BEINGS. AS HUMAN BEINGS, THERE IS A PIECE OF OUR BELONGING CALLED " HUMANITY ". DO WE STILL HAVE THAT PIECE ?

Vicki Falde, 42, USA
It's too bad that the NGO's aren't in charge of this conference. Then something useful would be done. As it is, delegates, the responsibility falls on you. I hope, at least, you're responsible enough to accept the consequences of the decisions you're about to make.

Gerard Taks, 76, Netherlands
Please make part of the desert green!!

Dr. Richard Jacobsson, 28, Sea Environment Assoc.
I'd like to comment on Nigel Calder's cynical opposition to greenhouse research and the Kyoto conference. N.C., Science writer and Former editor of New Scientist, is currently literally crusading for an hypothesis with the sun as the exclusive culprit behind global warming, has recently published a book "Global warming - Blame the sun!", given a seminar at the European Org. for Particle Phys. Research to which I attended (4/12), and been heard in a radio interview in Geneva.

Indeed, I ask myself why he is not attending the Kyoto conference to give a counterview in the discussions, something which is essential for all scientific progress. I entirely agree when he addresses the complications that have arisen when mixing the science with the political billion dollar carousell around greenhouse gases and industry. But as he defames the scientists, their methods, and the quality of the research behind greenhouse effects, he snares himself and fails equally to give a clear, critical, and objective view of the hypothesis he is presenting. Shortly and for those in the knowledge, in my view, massive cloud formations caused by cosmic rays and the fluctuations in non-solar cosmic ray flux due to the sun are poorly understood. It's a scientist's responsability to give the general public a full view of a problem. N.C. perilously omits information and adds statements which may be interpreted as if the greenhouse gases are definitely not a problem and that the world is now in a better condition. An example from the seminar and the radio interview is "CO2 is definitely not a pollutant, we are made of it and plants love it". T!

ruly some plants may benefit from high levels of CO2 but it is far from being favourable to the whole ecosystem and may thus disturb seriously the delicate equilibrium managed by Nature. Second, high levels of CO2 will perturb ocean chemistry, on which we rely largely for the absorbation of atmospheric CO2. As important though is that CO2 rarely comes alone. N.C. may find attention on CO2 a fruitless waste of time, but claiming to be environmental, he forgets to emphasize the other issues on which the multilateral negotiations are beneficial. In large scale emissions, CO2 is generally followed by many other toxic gases, of which some are also greenhouse hases, and which present hazards to the environment in many different ways. Thus discussing reduction of greenhouse gases is a broader issue than just global warming.

Indeed, the solar hypothesis is very interesting but we can't afford assuming the greenhouse gases to be 'harmless' if we turn up to be wrong.

Anna Steward, 19, USA
At interest rates around 10%, the "discounted value" of everything which comes in 50 years is close to nil and is therefore of no concern to the capitalists currently ruling and destroying our planet. Therefore, I do not expect that things will change as long as capitalism lasts. Environmentalists should go further than they currently do, if they really want to save the planet.

Maria Helena, 40, Portugal
Please, let your children live!!!

Camille Holt, 18, USA
the words of E.O.Wilson say it best,"We do not understand ourselves yet, and descend farther from heaven's air if we forget how much the natural world means to us. Sognals abound that the loss of life's diversity endangers not just the body but the spirit. If that is true, the changes occurring now will visit harm on all generations to come...We sould judye every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and com to understand what it means to humanity."

"There is no sense and no sanity in objectiong to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as daily buisness the desecration of the country (land)for which it stands" Wendall Barry-What you are doing is SO IMPORTANT please let us leave a legacy for our children.

Mary Reside, 36, Australia
Our Prime Minister, John Howard, doesn't represent the views of Australians. WE want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help save our rapidly deteriorating environment. Last time I looked, this was the only planet we had to live on, so we must help to save it, not only for humans, but for all the creatures of the world!!!!

Hans Daylight, Netherlands
Grettings 2 all earth lovers,
My msg is simple but true: Save the world, use clean energy And I dont' want to go to work using a submarine Bye ;)

Micha Meuwessen, 16, Badhoevedorp/Netherlands
We have to stop producing co2 into the air. We have use natural powers like the sun. Why do not put heating-boilers in the sahara en produce from that recource our energy. Why do not put windmills on windy places. Why not place huge ventilators in area´s with hurricane. The can produce the ammount of electricity for the whole of the usa for the next 100 years.

People, if you want to help the earth, start with your self.
Greetings,
MIcha

Lucree van den Heuvel, 27, Netherlands
Dear leaders of the world:
BE LEADERS!!!!!!!! And show your countries people why we need to act now and then act yourselves. Stop using cars for short distances, choose alternative energy and consume less, but enjoy life more!!!

Shahar Gavish, 26, Israel
to all the world leaders
The stake is too high. For next generations' sake: cut emmisions or resign peacefully.

Suk-yi Yo, 19, Malaysia
Dear world leaders,
Please do not give us empty promises anymore. What we want from all of you is concrete action. Act now to save our planet, and all of you will go down in the annals of history as the leaders who dared to take action. Hesitate, and we will all be doomed.

Jeffrey A Miller, 38, USA
Look's like "Profit's are up and Life Expectancy on Earth is way down",What do you think of the Environment and the Future of Mankind ? Life is watching us all!
AWYA AWE EARTHPEOPLE !
Jeffrey

Ben Barczi, 13, USA
I'm really glad that I can help in some way to make the world better for the next genration-mine!!

Deb McNamara, 37, Australia
You hold our future in your hands. Don't take chances - act boldly and act now to save our planet. Our children will thank you for your vision and your courage.

Sandy Jans, 28, Canada
NO MORE ABUSE OF THIS PLANET! please?

Thomas Jefferson, 34, USA
Don't believe that the USA delegation represents ordinary Americans. They only serve the multinational elite.

The USA is getting a barrage of non-scientific propaganda about this. CLINTON AND GORE ARE FRAUDS. PLEASE LEAVE THE USA ALONE.

Hamid Hashemi, 16, Kuwait
Its time to stop wasting time and time to increase public awareness on an international level on environmental problems. People should not take this opportunity at Kyoto for granted. They should come together, put aside their differences and solve their problems. We have to take action now as the environment will not sit and wait for us...

Corrie Bates, 29, USA
I urge all of the world's leaders to work to make REAL progress on cutting emissions and stopping global warming. It's time for us to rethink how we live and how we consume resources, especially the US.

Jeffery A Miller, 38, USA
Earth People we need to do are own on line summit, to face the fact of Life and start A Super Careful Industrial Revolution , It will work because we want to be right and God,Earth and Nature will HELP US ! Any one want to have some real Fun and do are Best and show real respect for Life???

Denise Hargrove, 37, USA
We must all be willing to make this work! It is for the future of all living things on this planet.

John Joseph Dziak, 21, USA
Dear Delegates:
Please encourage voluntary energy conservation by citizens and faster development of renewable (especially solar) energy by business and science. The CO2 increases are real.

Tanya Kaish, 33, USA
I truly hope w/ the arrival of Al Gore, the US delegation can finally make a difference in their policy. As a person who feels a real committment to future generations, I am a bit dismayed and embarrassed by the US's lack of "balls" for lack of a better term. Must our environmental future always be so political?

Chester Tan, 20, Australia
reduce the stinking greenhouse gases ... the planet is already on breaking point. solution to the 3 countries that won't keep to the binding treaty is major trade sections on em. TRADE SANCTIONS to all those who won't join in.

Isabel Martorell, 42, Mexico
You live in the same planet.Please, take real actions before it's too late

Aasim Ajaz, 16, Canada
HEY!! YOU THERE.(to canadian government) LEAVE THE WORLD AS WE FOUND IT.

Aasim Ajaz, 16, Canada
I REPRESNT THE WORLD, AND THe WORLD SAYS" HOLD IT BEFORE YOU MAKE A BOILED EGG OUT OF US." REDUCED the global warming gases production. stick with you promise( CANADA) and help us!!!!

Orcholski Gerald, 56, USA
We are all in this together and so we must all realize that global warming is a group responsibility. Everyone must be willing to sacrifice in order for it to work.

Michelle Holder, England
My children are only young, they have a long time to live in this world. We need to reduce global warming now. Please act to save our planet

Edward Fleck, 29, USA
Population and fossil fuel's don't mix. The more people that use fossil fuels the more we contribute to global warming we need to use cleaner fuel's like hydro, wind, solar, and geothermal. The electric car should be what we are all driving...

Sadia Ayub, Pakistan
Protect and grow more trees

Nicola Thompson, 19, England
ignorance is bliss, isn't it????

Fiona Wonsack, 14, Australia
World leaders, we won't stop making a fuss once the summit is over, because I know that is what you expect but we won't forget that easily.

Julia Wee, 24, Australia
I protest. Let not the world's leaders forget - they are not only responsible for our present, but also our future.

Fabien Paganelli, 30, France
St Exupery, a french writer, said: we don't give the planet to our children, we just borrow it from them. Please, think strongly about it and the huge responsibility you're currently bearing.

Radi Radi, 15, U.A.E
leaders do our world a favour and protect it

Rami Salman, 25, Lebanon
YOU HOLD A BIG PART OF THE RESPONSIBILITY

Ahmad Radi, 13, U.A.E
YOU SHOULD DO SOMETHING LEADERS YOU CAN DO SOMETHING

Esklin Ruiter, 40, Netherlands
Hi everybody,
This heating problem is one of the many problems we have to face. If you look carefully at the most of these problems, the causes are to be found in our egoism. The base of our economy, making money, making profit is basicly selfish. The reason that we are still burning oil and gas and coles is also caused by the oil companies. Their lobbies to stop Nicolai Tesla inventing new technologies succeeded so far. Perhaps the time is right now to change course now.

Brad Terebelo, 18, USA
Just do what everyone else does. Blame it on El Nino. Seriously, though, don't screw things up for future generations. They have a right to everything that you got to experience.

Eleanor Elgin , 19, USA
When you look outside at the beauty of the natural world, how can you continue destroying it? Earth has helped us live, now we must return the favor!!!

Ledda Larcher , 32, Argentina
Nuestros hijos aman su planeta, creo que el futuro está en buenas manos. Lo que me preocupa es el PRESENTE.

Sarah Mattice , 18, USA
Merry Christmas. Keep up the good work.

Jonathan Cummings , 15, USA
Thank you for signing the treaty. Remmeber that it is just a start and more action can still be taking. Congressmen and senators you now need to compliy with the treaty and make it happen. Yes jobs and money may be lost at the beging but it pays itself of quikly in new jobs and the economy.

ersilia e claudia, viola e pannunzi , 18, Italy
we like the nature and we love the amimals. we will are whith you in this operation: we frequent the luiss's university at the first year