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Re-launch

We have decided to re-launch the TGWS Campaign. When originally launched we believed that it would grow and grow. That did not happen – perhaps the time was not right. So we try again. If you were originally a member please re-join as a gesture of commitment. We have cleared our counts and previous details. The web-site now attempts to provide a wealth of information about the problems and solutions to the Global Warming crisis.

Objective

Our Objective remains the same:

To move the crisis of Global Warming to the very top of everyone's personal and political agendas; above increasing prosperity, health, education and the "War on Terror".

It is obviously very important that "everyone" includes our politicians, world leaders and influential members of the establishment.

We advocate "Sustainable living". This involves individual lifestyle changes and changes to our technology and social organisation (see "Information articles" on left for ideas and suggestions).

What does joining involve

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Joining the campaign does NOT involve:-

• Attending any meetings.
• Paying any money.
• Living in a particular place.
• Receiving newsletters or e-mails to clutter your life. (We have sent one e-mail to members in the 3 years of the campaign’s existence.)
• Nor does it preclude your being a member of any other organisation. Indeed we would encourage those who feel inclined to get involved in active local or national groups.

• Accepting that it is necessary that there are constraints on our freedom to consume the Earth’s resources, in order to reduce the very serious threat of catastrophe for the environment and to human society.
• Committing yourself to trying to persuade other people that this is true and to join the campaign so that the message spreads.
• We ask that you write 1 letter to a government minister.

We do not contend that persuading other people:- to accept the serious state we are in - and to be prepared to accept constraints needed to lessen the risk – is easy. But we believe it is vital. The information content of this web-site is to provide information which may assist in arguing the case.
We ask you to join as a gesture of commitment and to enable us to monitor the progress of the campaign.

The campaign is an exercise in networking - like a chain letter, we ask that those who join recruit others. If on average each person recruits not less than one person, the campaign will spread and spread; if it is significantly more than one person the campaign will grow radidly. We hope that this time this will happen.

We ask supporters to commit to the campaign and to work at propagating it by persuading their friends, relatives and contacts to join and carry it on. You can use this web-site or the basic leaflet (2 x A4 sides).

It is really quite simple. Governments will not take the tough and potentially unpopular actions that are needed while they feel that there is a lack of support among the general public for those actions.

TGWS asks individuals to accept that the problem is so serious that they are prepared to support governments taking tough actions. It goes on to ask those who accept this proposition to persuade/convince others of this situation so that the message spreads. The best way to persuade other people is not by newspaper and media articles etc. but by personal contact. Everyone knows lots of people, if they can persuade more than one of those people the message/support will spread and spread.

Persuading two other people is hard but it is important, probably one of the most important thing most individuals can do. Much more important than re-cycling religiously or going by bus.

If we all just sit on our hands the world will die.

This campaign can sit comfortably alongside any other campaigning about Global Warming/Climate Change – indeed we would encourage you to get active in your area if you can. But the main thing is to spread the message.

For the campaign to work we need a gesture of support, therefore we ask those who are prepared to do so, to commit themselves to the statement and pledge below:

Statement

I accept that Global Warming has now become so critical that without urgent action climate change will devastate life on earth. Hundreds of millions of people, particularly the world's poorest and most vulnerable, will be put at risk of extreme weather, drought, flooding, starvation and disease.

Further Global Warming is such a serious problem that it threatens the lives of a significant proportion of British children and young adults alive today.
Our government, though it goes further than others, is still failing to acknowledge the scale of the crisis, and is failing to take the actions needed now.

Therefore, we demand of the Prime Minister and our government, also of other party leaders, that the UK takes a lead in preventing this devastation. We demand that they move the tackling of this crisis to the top of our national agenda - above even better provision of public services (health, education, pensions and similar things) and definitely above the increasing of prosperity.

Note.

In practice the actions taken to sort out global warming are going to increase health and well being of the population and in many respects improve quality of life.

The UK must deliver large and sustained reductions in its own emissions of the gases that cause climate change and make international action to stop Climate Chaos the top priority.

It is necessary to start immediately to take urgent and drastic action, to have the best chance of averting the worst of the crisis. We recognise and accept that such actions must impose burdens and constraints of us all - similar to those needed to win a war.

Commitment

• TGWS asks you to accept the main elements of the foregoing statement.
• To commit to attempting to recruit at least one other member to the campaign (more would be better).
• To write one letter to a government minister expressing something of the views expressed above.