【環境資訊轉載】
編按：由於全球暖化帶來極端氣候，造成越來越多的『環境難民』，長期關注全球氣候問題的國際環保團體350.org於是發起連署，邀請大家一起拒絕高污染與高排碳的化石燃料（例如石油焦和煤），希望能號召大家協助連署讓世界領導人了解，人民希望對氣候變遷採取更積極行動的決心。相關說明請見下文。
親愛的朋友：
我正從菲律賓發信給您，在這裡哈格比颱風迫使超過一百萬位民眾撤至緊急避難所，也造成20多位民眾不幸喪生。這個颱風距海燕颱風來襲不過一年，而海燕颱風奪走超過7000位民眾的生命，也造成難以估量之損失。
若我們無視於氣候的變遷，更溫暖的海洋及更高的海平面將使得颱風來得更多更頻繁。我們有志一同，拒絕接受致命颱風成為我們的生活方式。
在我們對抗氣候變遷帶來的衝擊同時，世界各國也正在秘魯首都利馬，參加最後一回合的聯合國氣候會談。令人驚訝的是，談判代表們釋出的新氣候草案中直接點名化石業者。根據《全球財經精粹》(Financial Times) 報導，該協議將迫使埃克森 (Exxon)、雪佛龍
(Chevron)等公司「不得再以當前型態繼續經營」。
而化石業者也已開始反擊。不同於世界衛生組織 (World Health
Organization) 禁止菸草代表參與菸草管制會談；聯合國氣候變遷會談並沒有此項規定，使其免受化石產業之干預。他們的遊說代表極力削弱該協議 —— 同時剝奪提供給菲律賓等地區的保護措施。
有鑑於菲律賓最近的氣候災害，我們不容許化石業者如此挾持氣候變遷會議。是時候將罪大惡極的污染元兇驅逐，好讓氣候會談免於化石燃料的烏煙瘴氣之荼毒。
在秘魯，全球的環保人士正與氣候會談裡的化石爪牙們對抗著。他們在一場反撤資活動的會場外頭抗議，而該活動的講者包含殼牌 (Shell) 及世界煤炭協會 (World Coal Association) 的代表。
而這只是我們讓業者們焦頭爛額的其中一招：破紀錄的人民氣候遊行、遍地開花的化石燃料撤資運動，及全球各地無數的氣候行動抗爭，皆有助於創造氣候行動的下一個里程碑。
我們是一群堅忍不拔的菲律賓人。藉由眾人的幫助，我們將重拾力量，為我們摯愛的親朋好友伸張正義。我們不需要同情，更不需憐憫。我們需要的是政府的實際作為及世界各地人民的眾志成城。
如哈格比、海燕等颱風，在在都提醒著我們：氣候變遷並不僅僅關乎環境，更是關乎正義。全世界最脆弱的民眾 —— 最不需為氣候變遷負責的民眾 —— 卻也是身受其害最早最深的民眾。這就是我們挺身而出的原因，不只為了氣候行動，更為氣候正義而戰。
Zeph謹代表350.org 上
註：請慷慨解囊，資助目前在菲律賓的援助行動。距海燕颱風侵襲已逾一年，卻仍有15,000位民眾仍住在帳篷內，努力重建家園。現在哈格比又帶來另一波破壞，再次打擊試圖重拾生計的民眾。您的捐款將用於重建計畫中最急迫的地方。
★★★英文原文★★★
Another year, another storm
We refuse to accept this as a way of life
Dear Friends,
I’m writing from the Philippines, where Typhoon Hagupit
has forced over a million people into emergency shelters and taken more than 20
lives. This storm comes just one year after Typhoon Haiyan cost over 7,000
lives and caused nearly incalculable damage.
If climate change is left unchecked, warmer oceans and
higher sea levels will make typhoons ever more frequent and intense. Together, we are refusing to accept a
future where deadly storms become a way of life.
As we confront the impacts of climate change, world
governments are at the latest round of United Nations Climate Talks in Lima, Peru.
Amazingly, negotiators released a new draft climate text that goes directly
after the fossil fuel industry. According
to the Financial Times, the agreement would force companies like Exxon and
Chevron to “cease to exist in their current forms.”
Already,
the fossil fuel industry is fighting back.
Unlike the World Health Organization, which bans tobacco lobbyists from tobacco
control talks, the UN climate talks have no such protections against the fossil
fuel industry. Their lobbyists are fighting hard to weaken the agreement -- and
take away protections for communities in places like the Philippines.
In
the face of the latest climate disaster in the Philippines, allowing the fossil
fuel industry to put a corporate stranglehold on the climate talks is
unacceptable. It’s time to kick big polluters out and make the climate talks
fossil free:
Send a message to the
climate negotiators in Lima and tell them it’s time to kick the fossil fuel
industry out of the climate talks and support a full and just transition
towards clean, safe and democratised renewable energy. http://act.350.org/sign/hagupit/
In Peru,
global activists have directly confronted fossil fuel influence at the climate
talks, protesting outside of an anti-divestment event with speakers from Shell
and the World Coal Association.
And that’s just one way we’re putting heat on the industry:
the record-setting People’s Climate March, the rapidly spreading fossil fuel
divestment movement, and countless fights for climate action around the world
have all helped create a new sense of momentum for climate action.
We are a strong and resilient people here in The
Philippines, and with everyone’s help we will regain strength and claim justice
for our loved ones. We are not calling for sympathy, much less pity. We are
calling for action from governments and solidarity from people around the
world.
Join us in turning up
the heat on the fossil fuel industry and pushing our governments to do what’s
necessary to avert climate catastrophe. http://act.350.org/sign/hagupit/
Storms like Hagupit and Haiyan remind us that climate change
is about far more than the environment. It’s about justice. The world’s most
vulnerable people -- the ones that did the least to cause climate change -- are
the ones that will feel its impacts first and worst. This is why it is so
important that we fight, not just for climate action, but for climate justice.
Zeph for 350.org
P.S. Please consider
donating to the ongoing relief efforts in the Philippines. One year after Typhoon Haiyan 15,000 people were still
living in tent cities trying to rebuild. Now Hagupit has caused another wave of
destruction and another setback for people trying to rebuild their lives. Your
donation will be directed to where it is most needed in the rebuilding effort.http://350.org/haiyan-donations/
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