terça-feira, 6 de outubro de 2009

Clima: todo mundo nu na na carta a Lula e Obama


700 pessoas ficaram peladas num vinhedo em Burgundy, na Borgonha, França, para chamar atenção de líderes mundiais com relação ao Aquecimento Global. Os líderes vão se reunir em dezembro na Dinamarca para tratar da questão climática. A nudez no vinhedo é uma instalaçãoo humana do artista Spencer Tunick em parceria com o Greenpeace, que divulgou em seu site uma carta-aberta aos líderes, começando assim: "Dear Obama, Merkel, Jintao, Lula, Sarkozy...

Vejamo-la:

Dear Obama, Merkel, Jintao, Lula, Sarkozy, Zapatero, Tusk etc.

As you will have no doubt witnessed this year - tens of thousands of people are willing to go to some extraordinary lengths for climate action. Many are even willing to take their clothes off!

700 people have stripped naked in a vineyard to warn the world of the effects climate change will have on French wine. And a while ago, hundreds of others were prepared to pose nude on a glacier in Switzerland.

Around the world, people have made time to march, dance, create artwork, chain themselves overnight to coal installations in Svalbard, lock on to equipment in Canada's tar sands, get arrested for suspending a message to the G20 from a bridge in Pittsburgh, spend four months at sea away from their families to show again that the Arctic is melting, document glacial melt at the top of the Himalayas and carved a hundred ice statues in Beijing to show the threat to Asia's water supply.

Given the lengths to which we're all willing to go to call for action on this issue, do you think you could make some time in your busy calendar this December to show up in Copenhagen?

To date, only Gordon Brown (UK), Donald Tusk (Poland) and Jan Peter Balkenende (the Netherlands) have said they will attend.

We're not asking you to take your clothes off in Copenhagen - but we do expect you to be there - to sign a fair, ambitious and binding deal to save the future of our planet. A half-decent climate treaty simply wont do.

Thank you,
Greenpeace