Dr John Merory of Yarra Valley Climate Action Group writes to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) over species extinction through climate inaction. The WWF, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and the Climate Institute have all supported the pro-coal Australia Government’s Cap-and-Trade Emissions Trading Scheme (the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme or CPRS that will actually permit an 80% increase in Australia’s Domestic and Exported GHG pollution by 2050; see “Australia’s “5% off 2000 GHG pollution by 2020” endangers Australia, Humanity and the Biosphere “: http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/australia-s-5-off-2000-ghg-pollution-by-2020-endangers-australia-humanity-and-biosphere ).
According to the WWF: "The last Tasmanian Tiger died at Hobart Zoo on September 7 1936. Because of the significance of this date, WWF-Australia now chooses to commemorate National Threatened Species Day on September 7 each year. Before 1936, Australians had the chance the safeguard to Tasmanian Tiger from extinction. In 2009, we find ourselves in a similar situation. Do we want to rescue our unique Australian species, or resort to only remembering them?"
Dr Merory's Letter to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (8 September 2009).
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Dear WWF
I am disappointed with your response to the federal government's pathetic response to climate change, which panders to the coal lobby rather than reducing our greenhouse emissions. I see much more integrity in the approach of BZE [ Beyond Zero Emissions], CEN [Climate Emergency Network] and the grass-roots climate action groups that have sprung up all over the country. There is no use wringing our hands about threatened species while not taking emergency measures to decarbonise our emissions and draw down the CO2 we have already put into the atmosphere. We are causing species genocide by our lack of action. I support the stand of the Governor of Victoria, David de Kretser, outstanding scientists such as James Hansen, Barrie Pittock and David Karoly, and climate action authors such as David Spratt, Philip Sutton and George Monbiot.
Yours Sincerely
John Merory