It's here mostly because it's easier to show than tell.

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The organisations which appear have not all been approached - they're shown only as examples and may or may not agree to be part of A Million Reasons.

The "213,618" ? -- it's intended that number will rise automatically as people sign up.

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(July 27) ...

This is not the climate for selfishness

Ed Miliband
The Age, June 27, 2009

In some negotiations, the Government's position can seem like a state secret. We're taking the opposite approach — sending it to schools, putting it online, discussing it as much as we can — because these climate change talks are not like any other negotiations in recent history. More than any other, they will affect everybody's lives. And, more than any other negotiations, governments might be the ones to sign the deal, but governments and people together will need to deliver it.

Ed Miliband is the British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.




I believe that the threat of climate change, and its consequent effect on the world's environment, is both real and greatly disturbing. I am convinced from all I have read and heard that millions of our fellow citizens feel similarly. 
 
For example, a Newspoll conducted in July 2008 among 1200 Australian voters found that 84% believed that climate change was currently occurring and 96% of these people believed that it ws caused by human activity.
 
Further, in February this year 50% of Newspoll respondents said that the issue of climate change would be very important in deciding how they would vote.
 
I believe that if these feelings are allowed to be expressed vigorously in public our politicians will be forced to take them into account. That is, politicians could only ignore them at their electoral peril.
 
It is time for this broad voter consensus on the need for action to address the dangers of climate change to be widely argued. In short, it is time to show our politicians that we want them to take bold initiatives to protect us and our children.
 
Irving Saulwick


Irving Saulwick, AM, is one of Australia’s most experienced social researchers. He published the Saulwick Poll for the Fairfax organisation for 23 years and has worked with government, the private sector and academia for more than 30 years.

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