In this piece running right now on TPM

 http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/02/obama_urged_not_to_backburner_climate_change.php 

Al Gore advocates the President take strong action now on Climate Change.  He is right and everyone who loves humanity and this precious blue jewel of a planet needs to join him in demanding that the President take quick and drastic action to reverse the disasterous course the nation and planet are on with respect to climate change. 

It is not at all hyperbolic to say that nothing else matters if we so foul the planet that life on earth is destroyed.  What we have already put in motion through our irresponsible activities are huge and cataclysmic changes in our environment.  We must act now if we hope (even within the next hundred years) to be able to stop and reverse what we have put in motion from going any further.  Whatever your religious beliefs (or not) we humans have inherited a uniquely beautiful and extraordinary, self-sustaining planetary ecosystem that we humans alone are responsible for screwing up.  We owe it to the future and to the grace and providence of the universe that bestowed this planet upon us to make 100% sure, no matter the cost or inconvenience) that we act in a manner that secures that future for at least as long as it would have endured without all the pollution and destruction caused by human activity.

We have an absolutely glorious planet.  It is an ingenious, living organism that has provided the possibility of life for us and all the other living things we share this it with.  It is our sacred obligation to protect it.  If we were dumb animals, unable to discern what is happening and that we have caused it, that would be one thing.  But we are not dumb animals and we do know what has caused the already terrifying destruction of the polar ice caps, the changes in our weather patterns that all of us have experienced and can easily understand and more.  We have caused this profane and obscene destruction to be set in motion.  Our top priority: bar none, must be to do whatever is required to stop and reverse the warming of the atmosphere.

If we fail to do so, how can we look our children and grandchildren in the eyes and tell them we love them?  If we fail to protect the earth it is clear that our love for our own families is not great enough to make us stop killing the planet in order to continue on our selfish and perverse course.  Though there is almost certainly life elsewhere in the universe, we have no proof that there is.  What if we are it?  Do we really want to roll the dice in hopes that if we do ourselves in a manner that could have been avoided that some other human life will arise somewhere in the vastness of the universe?  I think not.  What magnitude of crime are we committing if we snuff out the light of life here on earth?  We are talking about no less.  We must act responsibly and we must act immediately on behalf of the billions of people who have a right to the blessings of this earth as we know them in a future that will be centuries or even millenia beyond our own living moments in existence on earth.

Every soul in this country that cares about humanity and it's future needs to contact the President and let him know very clearly that we are deadly serious and in earnest about this issue.  Yes, the economy is an extraordinary crisis, but life on earth is a bigger issue than the passing economic downturn we are experiencing no matter how bad it is.  Time is running out for humanity even as I type this and you read it.  Gore is right and we need to echo his urgent call for action to all the powers that be before it is too late.

Act now and urge the President to take far-reaching and dramatic action on climate change now!