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Subject: [MIXED-BLOODS] BioGems Defender,
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 16:02:30 EDT

> Dear BioGems Defender,
>
> I wanted to pass along to you the following message
> describing my feelings about President Bush's plan to drill
> the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and the urgent need for
> us to fight back. I know you've visited the SaveBioGems.org
> website and, most likely, already taken action on behalf of
> our priceless Arctic wilderness -- and I thank you. Now,
> please do me the great favor of forwarding my message to
> everyone you know -- your friends, family, co-workers,
> discussion groups -- encouraging them to join us in this
> critical battle.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Robert Redford
>
> =====
>
> Dear Friend,
>
> I've never circulated this kind of email before. But I am
> so appalled by President Bush's plan to open up the Arctic
> National Wildlife Refuge to massive oil development that I
> feel I must do whatever I can to help stop it.
>
> To me, the Arctic Refuge represents everything spectacular
> and everything endangered about America's natural heritage:
> a million years of ecological serenity . . . vast expanses
> of untouched wilderness . . . an irreplaceable sanctuary for
> polar bears, white wolves and 130,000 caribou that return
> here each year to give birth and rear their young. For
> 20,000 years -- literally hundreds of generations -- the
> native Gwich'in people have inhabited this sacred place,
> following the caribou herd and leaving the awe-inspiring
> landscape just as they found it. Our own presidents going
> back to Eisenhower have kept a bipartisan promise to
> safeguard this world-class natural treasure. But not THIS
> president. It is a sad day indeed when our president and
> congressional leaders would sacrifice America's largest
> wildlife refuge for the sake of a possible six-month supply
> of national energy. A six-month supply! We could save that
> little oil by improving the fuel efficiency of cars and
> light trucks by a mere one mile per gallon.
>
> Only one group of Americans will benefit from the
> destruction of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge: the oil giants.
> Everyone else loses. Arctic wildlife populations will
> decline, the Gwich'in people will see their land marred by
> pipelines and poisoned by oil spills, you and I will become
> even more dependent on oil, and the planet will suffer
> catastrophic global warming from the burning of even more
> fossil fuel.
>
> Unless we get millions of Americans to lodge a protest right
> now, this nightmarish scenario may well come to pass in the
> next two months. The Republican energy bill, which would
> fulfill the president's promise to drill the Arctic Refuge,
> is moving through Congress today. House and Senate leaders
> may also try to sneak through the Arctic drilling provision
> by attaching it to a "must-pass" appropriations bill. These
> votes will be decided by the moderates in both parties. We
> must reach those moderates and hold them accountable.
>
> Here's what you can do: go to
> http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic
>
> The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has set up this
> new website to make it extremely easy for you to send
> messages of protest to your senators and represenative. It
> will take you only a minute.
>
> I've been on NRDC's board for 25 years, so I know how
> effective they are at waging and winning environmental
> campaigns. Last year, NRDC used web activism to help
> generate a million messages of protest to Mitsubishi and
> stopped the company from destroying the last unspoiled
> birthing ground of the Pacific gray whale.
>
> We'll win this time too if each of us does our part for the
> Arctic Refuge. Please visit
> http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic right now. And forward my
> message to your family, friends and colleagues. Congress
> cannot ignore millions of us.
>
> If we let them plunder our greatest wildlife refuge for the
> sake of oil company profits, then no piece of our natural
> heritage is safe from destruction. Please go to
> http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic and help keep the Arctic
> wild and free.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Robert Redford
>
> =====
>
> BioGems: Saving Endangered Wild Places
> A project of the Natural Resources Defense Council
> http://www.savebiogems.org

May your Waters Flow Gently With Love Care and Concern <ga wa si > Little Hawk

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