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To:       UNCED and all World Governments
From:     Richard Davis and Chris Bradfield, California Green Party,
          Sacramento and Mendocino Working Groups
          <sliberty> <planthemp> <dliberty>
Subject:  Declaration of an International Emergency

     The following is motivated by a green concern for the planet
earth - our common home.  Ecological wisdom calls for a definite
change in priorities toward survival thinking.  Earth's atmosphere is
in a crisis state.  Our ozone layer is being destroyed worldwide. 
Adam Trombly, noted physicist and co-founder with Buckminster Fuller
of Project Earth, says we have only a couple of years left to do
anything about it.  The U.S. National Aeronautic and Space
Administration (NASA) has confirmed worldwide ozone destruction. 
Global warming has been called "the most serious environmental threat
of the 21st Century," by 49 Nobel Prize winning scientists.  They
appealed to President Bush to curb greenhouse gas emissions, saying: 
"...only by taking action now can we insure that future generations
will not be put at risk."
     These related atmospheric issues demand a worldwide emergency
declaration by the Rio Summit accompanied by action to halt
destruction, and begin immediate remediation.  People are the only
cause of ecological devastation, but they are also the only source of
its recovery.  Therefore, we as greens of the world demand
consideration of the following plan for the healing of our
atmosphere:  

1.   Declare an emergency worldwide shutdown of all chlorine and
bromine production except for pharmaceutical uses.  The entire family
of chlorine and bromine compounds, and any other ozone destroying
compounds must be banned immediately as well as removed and detoxified
of storehouses of chlorine and bromine products.  Alternatives to
these substances are available and we must pay the price for
conversion.  We have no choice.  The health of the entire planet
cannot be compromised.

2.   An immediate worldwide emergency program to supplement the oxygen
in the STRATOSPHERE.  Trombly, who is also co-director of the
Institute for Advanced studies at Aspen, Colorado, suggests this will
cost $4.9 billion annually.  

4.   Emergency supplementation of oxygen into the TROPOSPHERE.  To do
this, we propose a two phase program, remembering that the fate of our
common home is at stake.

     A. An immediate 5 year ban on logging worldwide.  Forests can 
     help provide this oxygen, while removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
     
     B. To supplement our depleted forests worldwide in the production
     of oxygen and removal of carbon dioxide, we call for an immediate
     worldwide planting of Cannabis sativa (hemp), to create a carbon
     sink that can be measured and monitored as we reverse global
     warming.  We call on the United Nations to remove Cannabis sativa
     from the Single Convention on Drug Use, in the light of its
     extraordinary industrial potential and its long history in
     service to people, including its medical uses, dating back many
     thousands of years.

5.   An emergency worldwide effort to get off fossil fuels as rapidly
as possible.  Fossil fuels are largely responsible for the greenhouse
effect, adding CO2, with no natural mechanism for removal of such
large quantities.  Acid rain, which kills 60,000 people annually in
the U.S. and Canada, is also a result of burning fossil fuels.

6.   We demand  governments remove all secrecy from the atmospheric
studies, thereby allowing scientists to come forward with full
information to focus on this emergency crisis.  Persons found to be
withholding pertinent information, should risk dismissal or
incarceration.

7.   Daily health warnings and media notifications regarding abnormal
levels of ultra-violet B (UVB) radiation must be broadcast in all
localities in the world.  Public health measures to deal with skin and
eye exposure to UVB must be encouraged and investigated on a priority
basis.

We as one world must do the right thing and act in concert or we may
all perish.  Again there can be no compromise with the health of the
earth.