2017 New Year’s Resolution
Prevent the Killing of Planet Earth
Through Nuclear War & Climate Disaster
“If 1% of the nuclear weapons now ready for war were detonated in large cities, they would utterly devastate the environment, climate, ecosystems and inhabitants of Earth. A war fought with thousands of strategic nuclear weapons would leave the Earth uninhabitable.”
Following a large nuclear war, enormous fires created by nuclear explosions in cities cause 150 million tons of smoke to be lofted high above cloud level, into the stratosphere. The smoke quickly spreads around the world and forms a dense smoke layer which will remain in the stratosphere for many years and act to block sunlight from reaching the surface of the Earth.”
http://www.nucleardarkness.org/index2.php
“There are other pathways to planetary destruction (than nuclear war). The principal one, global warming, requires more time than a nuclear exchange for the consequences to be realized, but in the end, the planet would definitely become a disaster zone.
President-elect Donald Trump is ignorant of many things. Most of all he is ignorant of his own ignorance – a situation that often accompanies a grandiose estimation of oneself. One of the subjects on which Trump’s ignorance stands out is environmental protection – the rubric under which comes the effort to save the planet from global warming. This warming process is a scientific fact and the subject of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.” Lawrence Davidson is professor of history at West Chester University in West Chester, PA. See http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/23/how-to-destroy-a-planet/
Make it you New Year’s Resolution to do everything in your power to prevent climate disaster and nuclear war. Stand in nonviolent solidarity with people struggling for justice and protecting the Sacred in every way possible. Never give up. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
Stand with Aloha for Peace, Justice, and the Earth!
1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties.
4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.
5. Seek peace through peaceful means and work for justice in Hawai`i and around the world. Contact: Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action
P.O. Box 489 Kurtistown, Hawai’i 96760 Phone (808) 966-7622. Email: ja@malu-aina.org Sign up on our website to receive our posts http://www.malu-aina.org/
Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (Dec. 30, 2016 797th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office
