To America's mothers and grandmothers:
As a Board member of Rainforest Action Network, co-founder of
CODEPINK, and most importantly, as the mother of three beautiful
children, I am writing to ask you to join me in an effort to
reduce our country's oil dependence. If you're like me, you're
concerned about how America's dangerous addiction to oil is
threatening our national security, producing smog that harms our
children's health, destabilizing our climate, and forcing us to
pay ever-increasing gas prices. If we don't solve this problem
now, then what kind of future are we leaving for our kids?
I am writing to ask you to join me in helping to jumpstart
Ford Motor Company, America's
biggest gas guzzler. Beginning this Mother's Day and continuing
until Mother's Day 2006, we are asking mothers and grandmothers
from across the country to help us convince America's flagship
automaker to lead us to a clean energy future. Please sign this
letter and join us in making the world a better place for our
families.
Listen to your Mother.org
Transportation accounts for 70% of all oil consumption in the
United States, and Ford Motor
Company has had the worst fuel efficiency for the past five
years. Ford Motors lagged behind the industry average on fuel
efficiency every year for the past 30 years, and its entire
fleet gets less gas mileage than the Model T 100 years ago!
Imagine you lived in a country where American carmakers led
the world in efficiency and clean technology. Imagine a fleet of
cars that would help to reduce childhood asthma rates and would
lessen the likelihood of catastrophic oil spills. When our
country breaks its oil addiction, we won't need to drill in the
pristine wilderness of Alaska or the Amazon to fill up our gas
tanks. We will have a foreign policy that supports democracy,
transparency, and human rights everywhere. And, we won’t need to
send our children to war to stand guard over oil wells half a
world away.
We can do this, but we need to work together. Join us and
write to Bill Ford, asking him to build clean cars now.
Listen to your Mother.org
The future of our planet depends on our ability to quickly
wean ourselves away from all fossil fuels. A child born today
will witness the bleaching of 70% of our coral reefs, the
disappearance of almost all North American glaciers, and an
endangered species list that outnumbers the ones that are left.
In the Amazon alone, up to 87% of all species would be committed
to extinction due to climate change within the next forty-five
years. Is this the future we choose to leave our children? Lend
your voice and help make sure the world we leave our children is
better than this.
Listen to your Mother.org
Please send a letter to Bill Ford today, and pass this alert
to other moms and grandmoms. Join us in telling Bill Ford:
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As American citizens and mothers we deserve transportation
that doesn’t threaten our national security.
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As mothers we have the right to breathe clean air and enable
our children to have healthy lives free from asthma and
polluted resources.
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As mothers we believe that our children and grandchildren
shouldn’t have to solve a climate change problem that our
generation's leaders refuse to accept.
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As mothers we are concerned about America’s oil addiction
and Ford’s lack of commitment to fuel efficiency and zero
emissions vehicles.
Join concerned mothers everywhere in asking Ford to become
the first automaker to commit to producing zero emissions
vehicles and dramatically increase its fuel efficiency across
the board. Let’s convince automakers to stop contributing to the
problem and become a part of the solution. Come meet mothers
from all over the world and post your own story and photo!
Listen to your Mother.org
Thank you for taking action to help drive Ford to a cleaner,
more efficient future. Share this with mothers you know and help
connect them to this, a Mother’s Plea for the Planet!
Yours,
Jodie Evans
Co-founder,
CODEPINK
Boardmember, Rainforest Action Network
A Mother’s Plea for the Planet is sponsored by Rainforest Action
Network, Global Exchange, Code Pink, and the Raging Grannies.
