Dr Jim Garrison is a US author, philosopher and theologian. He is current president of the State of the World Forum (see: http://www.worldforum.org/ ) which he founded in 1995 with Mikhail Gorbachev (President, USSR, 1985-1991 and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1990: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev ) ( see: http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/bios/jim-garrison.asp ).
Dr Jim Garrison, 2009: Greenhouse gases must be cut 80 percent by 2020, not by 2050 as U.N. countries propose, to preserve life as we know it … If we don't completely rethink and radically accelerate the plans to reverse global warming, we will, in all likelihood, create catastrophic climate change in our lifetime … For the first time in history we must take personal responsibility for our climate. We are all responsible for global warming. We must all share the leadership to solve it… [The scientific evidence] calls for a new form of moral leadership that transcends the narrow self-interests that have so badly damaged our economies and prevented serious efforts to mitigate the escalating effects of climate change." [1].
[1]. Gerry Harrington, “World Forum: “Cut CO2 80% by 2020, not 2050”,United Press International, 3 August 2009: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/08/03/World-Forum-Cut-CO2-80-by-2020-not-2050/UPI-37721249335732/ .