Climate satirists send serious message.Byline: Daily Star Staff Summary: Environmental campaigners satirized Lebanon's leaders Thursday, to urge the newly formed government to engage the global community in the fight against climate change.AaMembers of the global league of activists, IndyACT, took to the Beirut beach wearing plaster head masks of Prime Minister Hariri and Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun Michel Naim Aoun (Arabic: ميشال عون) (born 19 february 1935 in Haret Hreik, Lebanon) is a Lebanese military commander and politician. , and conducted a 10 minute play. BEIRUT: Environmental campaigners satirized Lebanon's leaders Thursday, to urge the newly formed government to engage the global community in the fight against climate change.AaMembers of the global league of activists, IndyACT, took to the Beirut beach wearing plaster head masks of Prime Minister Hariri and Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun, and conducted a 10 minute play.Aa In this play, the two Lebanese politicians fought for chairs, and when they finished fighting they realized that they were knee deep in seawater seawater Water that makes up the oceans and seas. Seawater is a complex mixture of 96.5% water, 2.5% salts, and small amounts of other substances. Much of the world's magnesium is recovered from seawater, as are large quantities of bromine. .Aa "This play symbolized that we have been away from what has been happening globally, but it is time to wake-up," an IndyACT statement said.Aa The activists also held a sign that read: "Start thinking, we are sinking. Put climate change in the Ministerial Declaration."Aa "Prime Minister Hariri said that the new Cabinet will re-engage the world and restore the Lebanon's position in the international Arena. If the prime minister is serious about what he said, he should put the upcoming climate-change summit as one of his top priorities", said Wael Hmaidan, head of climate campaign in IndyACT.Aa Currently, governments of the world are negotiating a new climate-change agreement, which is supposed to be finalized in Copenhagen, during a global summit in December.Aa Lebanon is very vulnerable to climate change, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the IndyACT statement. Potential climate impacts on Lebanon include increased forest fires This is a list of notorious forest fires: North America Year Size Name Area Notes 1825 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km²) Miramichi Fire New Brunswick Killed 160 people. , droughts, reduced agricultural output, coastal destruction and, ultimately, total desertification desertification Spread of a desert environment into arid or semiarid regions, caused by climatic changes, human influence, or both. Climatic factors include periods of temporary but severe drought and long-term climatic changes toward dryness. .Aa IndyACT suggested that the ministerial platform contain the following sentence: "Realizing that climate change threatens human civilization in Lebanon and the globe, this Cabinet will use every opportunity to push governments of the world to take urgent climate action, starting with the upcoming summit in Copenhagen."Aa IndyACT also urged President Michel Sleiman to attend the summit this December. -- The Daily Star Copyright 2009, The Daily Star. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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