Vote Earth!

As years are measured, 2009 is a pivotal one.  Many believe that decisions arrived at this year will surpass in importance any made before in human history. Before this year is out, world leaders will have met in the Danish city of Copenhagen where—we fervently hope—they will have forged an agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

Kyoto, as we know, is an international agreement to limit emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming so that climate change does not accelerate to the point of irreversible catastrophe.  The agreement expires in 2012.

If the leaders at Copenhagen fail to hammer out Kyoto’s successor, it may simply be too late to start the process anew. In the handful of years since Kyoto was signed, scientists’ predictions about the pace of climate change have grown steadily more urgent. Global warming, they now say, is outstripping even their most fearful projections.

The conference at Copenhagen next December represents the World’s deciding moment in the effort to halt climate change—it’s our last, best chance.

This is why Earth Hour 2009 is so important. That’s what it’s really all about.

When a billion people join together in switching off their lights, they’re saying that they know that climate change is a clear and present danger. They are also sending a message to their heads of state—Canada’s included—that, come December 2009, they have a job ahead of them in which they must not fail.

Sign up for Earth Hour; add your voice to a billion others: Vote Earth!

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