Global Call To Action

We the undersigned have come together at a moment of urgent global necessity to call attention to the crisis of global warming and appeal to our leaders to join a ten year campaign to reduce carbon emissions by 80% and shift the basis of our economies from fossil fuels to renewable energy by 2020. All countries would benefit equally from joining these commitments. We are mindful that the latest scientific evidence compels this level of response to the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced and that failure to take this action will be catastrophic to human civilization as we know it. 

We are confronted with a challenge that is political and economic in scope and moral and spiritual at its core. Its solution must be as inspired, simple and audacious as a universal commitment to align human affairs with the natural systems of our earth.

INITIAL SIGNATORIES: Esperide Ananas, Angeles Arrien, Patricia Ellsberg, Steve Farrell, Jim Garrison, Christina Grof, Stan Grof, Robert Dirks Hall, Johannes Heimrath, Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Arjan Kinderman, Stacey Lawson, Hunter Lovins, Stephanie Pace Marshall, Caroline Myss, Michael Olmstead, Andy Orgel, Paul Ray, Kumar Rupesinghe, Margaret Schaub, Benjamin Schick, Joel Silberman, Mary Staton, Michel Saint Sulpice, Claudia Welss, and Robert Work.

We urge you to join us, sign this Call to Action, add your name to the list, and send it on to your network for their consideration, urging them to do the same.

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THE CRISIS

The crisis of global warming has suddenly moved from the indeterminate future to our immediate present. The current word from leading scientists is that the serious impacts from global warming are already bearing down upon us and will hit us with potentially incapacitating force within three to four years unless we respond decisively. 

THE CALL TO ACTION

The gravity of our situation has been detailed by James Hansen, Chief Scientist for NASA, who states in Science magazine that "if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm." Hansen details six irreversible tipping points, including massive sea level rises and dramatic increases and extreme weather events, which are already wreaking havoc around the world.

Add to this the statement of Indian scientist Rajendra Pachauri, who accepted the Nobel Prize on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: "If there is no action before 2012, that is too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment."  He said this in December 2007.

These statements are coming from the most eminent scientists of our time and therefore must be taken seriously. We have only a few years, four at the most, to take decisive action or we will enter a chaos zone that could be more gruesomely awful than anything we can currently imagine.

Because the challenge is global, our response must be global. Because the threat is imminent, our solution must be immediate. 

THE REASON WE CAN SUCCEED

What is as hopeful as the gravity of the crisis is the fact that a growing global population has emerged comprised of Cultural Creatives -- a group that only began to emerge in world culture fifty years ago but which now constitutes fully one third of the public in Europe, Japan and the United States. The implications of this emerging cultural and political force are as profound as the consequences of global warming are imminent. Cultural Creatives are having a profound influence in the marketplace and form a new voter constituency that is shifting the center of gravity for politics from center right to the center left and north. They are at the heart of the movement that just elected Obama.

This information is based on a new study conducted by Dr. Ray through his Institute for the Emerging Wisdom Culture at Wisdom University. His data shows that “new progressives” are now the largest single voting bloc in the United States and when combined with the liberals make up 54% of the electorate. Additionally, his polling shows that between 70%-80% of the public across the board understands the urgency of global warming and supports strong and decisive action to deal with it. A public policy based on progressive principles that is committed to developing an economy based essentially on renewables would have wide public appeal. What is remarkable is that similar polling percentages are found in Europe and Japan. Fully one third of the public of the G8 are now culturally creative and support strong action on the environment and climate change.

Such a plan and such public support is exactly what we need to solve our current economic and financial crises. We need more than simply a cash bailout of the companies that produced the recent financial crash in the first place, aided on by lax government regulation and a climate of militarism and greed. We need a ten year vision that can enable us to overcome the pressing threats and create sustainable and resilient communities.

The requisite to getting our governments to do this is that the public must demand it, even though its importance is self evident. The major task therefore is to develop a communication and public empowerment strategy that will identify and catalyze progressives and liberals into an even more self conscious and potent political force. The voters who can be moved by global concerns, ecological sustainability and hope based politics are now numerous enough and influential enough to win elections if they can be mobilized.

It is to mobilize the emerging population of cultural creatives and new progressives that the State of the World Forum is dedicated.

For further information on the Cultural Creatives: https://www.wisdomuniversity.org/cultural-creatives.htm

For further information on this campaign, please contact Jim Garrison at jgarrison@wisdomuniversity.org 

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Those Who Have Signed This Petition:

See Signatures #1 - 500

NAME	LOCATION	DATE
501. Hanneke Bijl	England	February 25, 2009
502. Francine P. Passias	Evanston, IL	February 27, 2009
503. Karen Burns	Matawan, New Jersey	March 3, 2009
504. Toomas Trapido	Estonia	March 11, 2009
505. Sebastian Stark	Germany	March 16, 2009
506. Lisa W Waters	Dallas, TX	March 16, 2009
507. Karen E. Johnson	NY USA	March 25, 2009
508. Dr. Joy	Atlanta, GA	March 25, 2009
509. Jiri Zemanek	Prague, Czech republik	March 25, 2009
510. Scott Sandoz	Bethlehem PA and Maui HI	March 26, 2009
511. Lotus Unicorn	the Netherlands	March 27, 2009
512. Rosemary Lane	Delaware, USA	March 29, 2009
513. Eva-Maria von Selzam	Germany	April 1, 2009
514. Lonnie Hinchey	Annapolis, Maryland	April 3, 2009
515. Thomas Nilssen	Italy	April 5, 2009
516. Valeria Gamba	Italy	April 5, 2009
516. Nicholas Mackay-Roberts	Great Britain	April 6, 2009
517. Lisa Riggin	Kansas, USA	April 6, 2009
518. Linda Stein	Seattle, WA	April 6, 2009
519. John F Greenman	Maine, USA	April 6, 2009
520. Alexandra Gravett	Oakland, Florida	April 6, 2009
521. Linda Keiser Mardis	Olney, MD; USA	April 7, 2009
522. Milna Smrz	Prague, Europe	April 7, 2009
523. Chava Williams	Berkeley, California, USA	April 7, 2009
524. Wolfgang Frank	Alzey, Germany	April 7, 2009
525. Claudia Holt	Petaluma, California	April 7, 2009
526. Terry Toolman	Truckee, CA	April 7, 2009
527. Albert Klamt	Germany	April 8, 2009
528. Carolyn Lenert	Sa Rafael	April 8, 2009
529. Dorienne B. Rogers	Jacksonville Beach, Florida	April 10, 2009
530. Senija Sarkis	Serbia	April 11, 2009
531. Jacqueline Arsivaud	Elfin Forest, CA	April 12, 2009
532. Alexander Krenz	South Africa	April 13, 2009
533. Patricia A. Zealley	Wisconsin, U.S.A.	April 14, 2009
534. Carol White	Denver, Colorado	April 14, 2009
535. Regan A	Australia	April 15, 2009
536. Bernard Vartuli	Australia	April 15, 2009
537. Erick Msalilwa	Tanzania	April 16, 2009
538. Ellen Smith	Boulder, Colorado	April 17, 2009
539. Erin Heineman	Canada	April 18, 2009
540. Marceau Jouett	Springfield, Illinois	April 19, 2009
541. Wim Willems	Stekene, Belgium	April 20, 2009
542. Jean Crowder	Albuquerque, New Mexico	April 21, 2009
543. Ricardo Galarza	Barcelona	April 22, 2009
544. Susan Howard	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	April 23, 2009
545. Dave MacQuarrie	Orangeville, Ontario, Canada	April 23, 2009
546. Richard Calvert	Nacogdoches, TX	April 28, 2009
547. Lianne Lowen	Florida, USA	April 29, 2009
548. Nicholas Pote	Australia	April 29, 2009
549. William Hoare	Australia	May 3, 2009
550. Phillip Arundell	Australia	May 3, 2009
551. Carole Perez	NY, USA	May 3, 2009
552. Kevin Pahl	Michigan USA	May 4, 2009
553. Chris Vartuli	Australia	May 4, 2009
554. Darren Ray	Adelaide, Australia	May 5, 2009
555. Yvonne Wenham	Aldinga Beach, South Australia	May 5, 2009
556. Jennifer Bain	Adelaide South Australia	May 5, 2009
557. MaryDempsey	Ireland	May 6, 2009
558. Lionel Platteuw	Brussels	May 6, 2009
559. Jason Rafferty	Norfolk, MA	May 7, 2009
560. Nola Wood	Laguna Niguel, CA	May 8, 2009
561. Tom Weis	Boulder, CO	May 14, 2009
562. Katherine Konner	Pleasanton CA	May 15, 2009
563. Will Taegel	Wimberley, Texas	May 17, 2009
564. Maryka Paquette	Vashon Island, WA	May 17, 2009
565. Oana Neagu	Bucharest Romania	May 18, 2009
566. Barbara Bye	Oakland, Ca	May 18, 2009
567. Donna Waugh Campbell	Sonoma, California	May 20, 2009
568. Anil Parajuli	Kathmandu, Nepal	May 23, 2009
569. Gail Stone	Orangeville, Canada	May 24, 2009
570. Clement O. Stephens	Liberia	May 25, 2009
571. Victoria T Holloway	India	May 26, 2009
572. Ben Trudinger	Canberra Austraila	May 26, 2009
573. Michelle Skinner	U.K.	May 27, 2009
574. Lambert Okrah	Montreal,  Quebec, Canada	May 28, 2009
575. D.J. Ankenbrandt	Alabama	June 4, 2009
576. Liora Davis	Florida, USA	June 7, 2009
577. Kristine Akins	USA	June 8, 2009
578. Sam Fernando	Melbourne, Australia	June 9, 2009
579. Diego Larranaga	Melbourne, Australia	June 9, 2009
580. Judy Adams	Lawrence Kansas USA	June 10, 2009
581. Adam Jorlen	Melbourne, Australia	June 11, 2009
582. Eliae Aguiar Henrique	Brazil	June 11, 2009
583. Cesar Josà de Campos	Rio de Janeiro,Brazil	June 13, 2009
584. David Tagliaferro	New Jersey, USA	June 14, 2009
585. Todd Johnson	Boulder, CO	June 16, 2009
586. Marie Wilson Nelson	Clearwater, Florida USA	June 17, 2009
587. Janmarie Connor	Indianapolis, IN	June 17, 2009
588. Melanie Knight	England	June 21, 2009
589. Sam Noel Pearce	Byron Bay, Australia	June 22, 2009
590. Susanne Ryan	Washington State	June 22, 2009
591. Karen Rogers	Florida	June 26, 2009
592. Lasse Wrennmark	Stockholm	June 27, 2009
593. Jean Arnold	Salt Lake City, Utah	June 28, 2009
594. Suzanne B. Monaghan, M.D.	Lake Lure	June 29, 2009
595. Jan Lee Martin	Sydney, Australia	June 29, 2009
596. Krista Kurth	Potomac, MD	June 29, 2009
597. Dubravka	Croatia, Zagreb	June 29, 2009
598. David Stowers	Acqui Terme, Italy	July 2, 2009
599. Mitch L  Gold	Canada	July 4, 2009
600. Dan Swangler	Busselton Australia	July 6, 2009
601. Aad Streng	Netherlands	July 7, 2009
602. Carol Braford	St Louis, Missouri, USA	July 10, 2009
603. Tom Braford	St Louis, Missouri, USA	July 11, 2009
604. Christa C. Couch	Bologna, Italy	July 11, 2009
605. Timothy M. Varnell	York, PA	July 12, 2009
606. Giuseppe LaManna	Cali, Colombia	July 12, 2009
607. Eric Brown	San Antonio, TX	July 12, 2009
608. Colin Miller	Oakland, California	July 17, 2009
609. James R. Henrie PhD	Paumalu, Hawaii	July 18, 2009
610. Chuck Sandhurst	Idaho	July 19, 2009
611. Elan Rosenman	San Francisco, USA	July 21, 2009
612. Cathy Williams	Asheville, North Carolina	July 21, 2009
613. Maggie Weiss	Berkeley, CA	July 22, 2009
614. Nikhil Krishnan	Alexandria, Egypt	July 26, 2009
615. Jim Osterman	Montana	July 26, 2009
616. Gerald Shaw	North Redington Beach, FL	July 27, 2009
617. Gary Carpenter	California	July 27, 2009
618. Jessica Agua	Zaltbommel, Netherlands	July 27, 2009
619. Sylas Gratz	San Anselmo, CA	July 29, 2009
620. Daphne Gratz	San Anselmo, CA	July 29, 2009
621. Suzanna Gratz	San Anselmo, CA	July 29, 2009
622. Michael Hill	CA	August 1, 2009
623. Lilian Aline Machado	Brasil	August 1, 2009
624. Luke Franceschini	melbourne, australia	August 1, 2009
625. Peter A Simon	Chicago Illinois	August 2, 2009
626. Abdulkadir Pekeroglu	Ankara Turkey	August 7, 2009
627. Amber Hatch	Oxford UK	August 7, 2009
628. Jill P Baragon	Vancouver, BC, Canada	August 9, 2009
629. Linda Owen	Longmont, CO	August 9, 2009
630. Bronwynne Jones	Australia	August 9, 2009
631. marchia carnicelli minor	United States	August 10, 2009
632. Cathryn Brown	Vancouver, Canada	August 12, 2009
633. Lura Harrison	Bonney Lake, WA	August 13, 2009
634. Jennifer Lisa Vest, Ph.D	Daytona Beach, FL	August 15, 2009
635. Magnus Mansie	Melbourne, Australia	August 17, 2009
636. Barbara Abdinor	South Africa	August 17, 2009
637. Carole Lussier	Vancouver, BC, Canada	August 18, 2009
638. Michael Salzman	Kansas City, MO	August 19, 2009
639. Italo Patrick	Brazil	August 19, 2009
640. Dorothy Randall Gray MSC	Los Angeles, CA	August 21, 2009
641. Bryan Fitzgerald	New Zealand	August 22, 2009
642. Ada Morag	Israel	August 23, 2009
643. Matt Hardy	Two Harbors, MN	August 27, 2009
644. Marcus Kendrot	Ponderay, ID	August 27, 2009
645. Kuniko Tamura	Tokyo, Japan	August 29, 2009
646. Anthony Farina	Georgia	August 30, 2009
647. Carol Nelson	San Rafael, CA	August 30, 2009
648. Frits Meulenveld	Amsterdam, Netherlands	August 31, 2009
649. Constantinos Michael Papadourakis	Boston, MA	Sept. 1, 2009
649. Cisca van der Straaten	Amstelveen - Netherlands	Sept. 4, 2009
650. Bill Tache	Big Sur, California USA	Sept. 5, 2009
651. Jan Tache	Big Sur, California USA	Sept. 5, 2009
652. Jakob Kærgaard	Denmark	Sept. 8, 2009
653. Joyce Olmsted	Grand Rapids, Michigan	Sept. 10, 2009
654. Sally Robertson	Chapel Hill, NC	Sept. 11, 2009
655. Lorie Heggie	Illinois, USA	Sept. 12, 2009
656. Olga Sofia Diaz	Stockholm, Sverige	Sept. 12, 2009
657. Emanuele Russo	Rome	Sept. 16, 2009
658. Caresse Cranwell	Australia	Sept. 17, 2009
659. Charmaine Brazil	Mendocino, California, U.S.A.	Sept. 18, 2009
660. Kem Ascension	USA	Sept. 21, 2009
661. Karen Maguire	Lexington, Ma USA.	Sept. 22, 2009
662. Mango RogÃrio Cruz	Brazil	Sept. 22, 2009
663. Alexander Veber	Moscow, Russia	Sept. 22, 2009
664. Penny Little	Santa Barbara, CA	Sept. 23, 2009
665. Julianna Fiumara	Shutesbury, Massachusetts	Sept. 25, 2009
666. Don Loristo	Dover, DE	Sept. 28, 2009
667. Leila F. J. Gill	Southborough, MA, USA	Sept. 29, 2009
668. Richard Ozanne	USA	Sept. 29, 2009
669. Nadezhda Kostina	Togliatty, Russia	Sept. 29, 2009
670. Gary Hancock	Melbourne Australia	Sept. 29, 2009
671. Kyle Beers	USA	Sept. 30, 2009
672. Susan Schleith	Flordia, USA	Oct. 5, 2009
673. Terry Eastwood	Guildford, Surrey, U.K.	Oct. 8, 2009
674. Fernando Dias	São Miguel do Oeste, Brasil	Oct. 9, 2009
675. Pepijn Vincent Hinten	Deventer, The Netherlands	Oct. 15, 2009
676. Gary Hendrickson	Boulder, Colorado USA	Oct. 16, 2009
677. Rhonda Green	USA	Oct. 17, 2009
678. Keane Southard	Boulder, CO, USA	Oct. 18, 2009
679. Rabbi Mordechai Liebling	Philadelphia, PA, USA	Oct. 19, 2009
680. Jane Breeze	USA	Oct. 20, 2009
681. Ellen Gunter	Oak Park, IL, USA	Oct. 23, 2009
682. Elizabeth Ann Izzo	Bloomington IN USA	Oct. 28, 2009
683. Lee Gardiner	Sydney, Australia	Oct. 31, 2009
684. Mark Bachelder	USA	Oct. 31, 2009
685. Jaremy Savage	Irving, TX	Nov. 1, 2009
686. Nicola Ulibarri	Taos, NM	Nov. 1, 2009
687. John Neighbour	London	Nov. 1, 2009
688. Amanda Shanahan	tellico plains tn	Nov. 5, 2009
689. Mary Otto-Chang	Panama	Nov. 7, 2009
700. Elizabeth Truman	Colorado, USA	Nov. 9, 2009
701. Rodry Brenes López	Costa Rica	Nov. 9, 2009
702. Marjorie Trifon	south carolina, USA	Nov. 9, 2009
703. Rose Iuro-Damon	Northeast Harbor, Maine. USA	Nov. 15, 2009
704. Pauline Rance	Nassau, Bahamas	Nov. 15, 2009
705. Deborah Cousins	Chesapeake,VA	Nov. 15, 2009
706. Margaret Bordagaray	Doylestown, PA	Nov. 15, 2009
707. Aaron Webb	Eugene, Oregon	Nov. 15, 2009
705. betty lenora steeber	Chowchilla, California	Nov. 16, 2009
706. Karin Silenzi de Stagni	Bath, UK	Nov. 16, 2009
707. Pierre LÃvesque	Gatineau, QuÃbec, Canada	Nov. 16, 2009
708. Dobromir Doskacharov	Burgas, Bulgaria	Nov. 17, 2009
709. Henri Sader	Canada	Nov. 17, 2009
710. Leonardo Wilson	Stanford, California	Nov. 18, 2009
711. Annamaria San Antonio	Lincoln, Massachusetts USA	Nov. 21, 2009
712. gilis joannes	Belgium	Nov. 23, 2009
713. James Nardini	Burbank, California, USA	Nov. 23, 2009
714. Amanda	Chicago, IL	Nov. 23, 2009
715. Debra Hansen	Petoskey, MI, USA	Nov. 24, 2009
716. Arlene Curry	British Columbia, Canada	Nov. 24, 2009
717. Mary Ellen Turner	Colorado, USA	Nov. 24, 2009
718. Marty B. O'Malley	Forest Hills  PA	Nov. 25, 2009
719. jeffery patrin	minnesota	Nov. 25, 2009
720. Terri Taylor	Pittsburgh, PA USA	Nov. 25, 2009
721. mary ruth aull	Pittsburgh, PA	Nov. 25, 2009
722. Karen Bernard	Pittsburgh, PA	Nov. 25, 2009
723. Claudette Kulkarni	Pittsburgh, PA	Nov. 25, 2009
724. Rebecca Reid	Pittsburgh, PA	Nov. 26, 2009
725. JASNA POTKONJAK	CROATIA, ZAGREB	Nov. 27, 2009
726. Joanne Giordano	Staten Island, NY	Nov. 28, 2009
727. Edith Wilson	Pittsburgh, PA	Nov. 29, 2009
728. Danielle A. Stanley	NJ, USA	Nov. 29, 2009
729. Tim Lao	Pittsburgh, PA	Nov. 30, 2009
730. Therese Desjardin	Santa Fe, NM	Nov. 30, 2009
731. Ellen Shapiro	Santa Fe, NM	Nov. 30, 2009
732. Danny C. Shelton, Ed.D	Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina	Dec. 1, 2009
733. Fernando Colla	Mexico City	Dec. 6, 2009
734. SUZANNA BROWN	Dallas, Texas	Dec. 6, 2009
735. mary rose stewart	northern ireland	Dec. 6, 2009
736. Julia Anne Goodwin	Naperville, IL, USA	Dec. 6, 2009
737. Joel Charles	Madison, WI	Dec. 7, 2009
738. Gina Costa	Michigan, USA	Dec. 7, 2009
739. Jemma Davies	Australia	Dec. 8, 2009
740. Daniel Alonso Van Camp	Copenhagen	Dec. 8, 2009
741. Henrik Friman	Stockholm Sweden	Dec.12, 2009
742. Kha, Nguyen Trong	Houston, TX	Dec.14, 2009
743. Robert Moorehead	Marin County, California	Dec.15, 2009
744. Mike Seymour	Clinton, WA	Dec.16, 2009
745. Ana Villacorta	Salvador, Bahia, Brazil	Dec.16, 2009
746. Zane Grey Alexander	Spanaway, WA	Dec.17, 2009
747. James Taylor	Terrace, BC, Canada	Dec.29, 2009
748. Drake Ward	Campbell River, BC, Canada	Dec.31, 2009
749. Kelly Keefe	State College US	Jan. 01, 2010
750. christina depa	los angeles CA	Jan. 02, 2010
751. Renato	Samobor	Jan. 02, 2010
752. Rachel Kaplan	Petaluma, CA	Jan. 03, 2010
753. Lee White	Smithers, BC, Canada	Jan. 04, 2010
754. Evans M. Kana	Nairobi, East-Africa	Jan. 05, 2010
755. Josephine Connor	Houston, Texas	Jan. 05, 2010
756. Deanna Miesch	Austin, TX, USA	Jan. 07, 2010
757. Christine Brosnan	United Kingdom	Jan. 09, 2010
757. Michael Morningstar	Sugar Land, Texas	Jan. 10, 2010
758. Eleanor	Boone, North Carolina	Jan. 10, 2010
759. Javier Tenorio Sánchez	Sevilla (Spain)	Jan. 11, 2010
760. Sandra L Patterson	Arkansas, USA	Jan. 15, 2010
761. Gail Edwards	Athens, Maine	Jan. 21, 2010
762. Franklin Lee	NC, USA	Jan. 22, 2010
763. Milo Maguire	Southampton, England	Jan. 24, 2010
764. Bogsányi, Dénes	Australia, ACT	Jan. 24, 2010
765. Cydya Smith	New York	Jan. 25, 2010
766. Svetlana Naydenova	Bulgaria	Jan. 25, 2010
767. Mark Wharton	England	Jan. 27, 2010
768. Zan Cheshire	London	Jan. 28, 2010