A message from AMERICA I Cuba ...
To President Obama, AMERICA II USA, to all Pan Americans, to all Goverment Officials concerned about social responsibility & justice and to the World Press ...
Good morning. I want to thank you for giving me this time to speak to you. Many are here today as a recognition that the threat from climate change is serious, it is urgent, and it is growing.
Our generation\'s response to this challenge will be judged by history, for if we fail to meet it – boldly, swiftly, and together – we risk consigning future generations to an irreversible cat astrophe. We are a small poor nation with an Embargo and a historical universal group of revolutionaries seeking social responsibility and justice, and our quest is to survive and to serve mankind. An embargo that was the fruition of the United States and the Soviet empire having a disagreement. They had the argument, and we got the embargo. Though we are a poor nation we still boast of our 8 Million workable people from 16-64 years old. We only have a 1.5% unemployment rate. YET, the poorer neighbor south of Louisiana to Florida that actually sends out more doctors by percentage of people to help the rest of the world, cannot get the technology, nor the people to build windmills and to stop the pollution.
Show the world you are serious with your convictions, or regulate yourselves to being irrelevant. MR OBAMA TEAR THIS EMBARGO DOWN. Let us fulfill our worldly obl igations. Let us have the technology, and the means to build this clean environment for you. You make fun of us, tell your people of things that are not true about us, yet we still want to meet our obligations. We do not want to send pollutants to Florida. Are you real, or are you just a paper tiger without teeth. It was said,
Difficulty is no excuse for complacency. Unease is no excuse for inaction. And we must not allow the perfect to become the enemy of progress. Each of us must do what we can when we can to grow our economies without endangering our planet – and we must all do it together. We must seize the opportunity to make hope and change a significant step forward in the global fight against climate change.
We also cannot allow the old divisions that have characterized the climate debate for so many years to block our progress. Yes, the developed nations that caused much of the d amage to our climate over the last century still have a responsibility to lead. And they should continue to do so – by investing in renewable energy, promoting greater efficiency, and slashing our emissions to reach the targets we set for 2020 and our long-term goal for 2050.
But rapidly-growing developing nations that will produce nearly all the growth in global carbon emissions in the decades ahead must do their part as well. Some of these nations have already made great strides with the development and deployment of clean energy, but are stopped by the USA policies and practices. Still, We will need to commit to strong measures at home and agree to stand behind those commitments just as the developed nations must stand behind their own. We cannot meet this challenge unless all the largest emitters of greenhouse gas pollution act together. There is no other way.
The poorest and mo st vulnerable nations must be on a path to sustainable growth. We are one, and we want to build clean energy. Wedo not have the same resources to combat climate change as countries like the United States or China do, but they have the most immediate stake in a solution. For we are a nation that are already living with the unfolding effects of a warming planet – famine and drought; disappearing coastal villages and the conflict that arises from scarce resources. Our future is no longer a choice between a growing economy and a cleaner planet, because their survival depends on both. It will do little good to alleviate poverty if you can no longer harvest your crops or find drinkable water. Yet an embargo will not let us have the technology.
That is why there is a responsibility to provide the financial and technical assistance needed to help these us adapt to the impacts of climate ch ange and pursue low-carbon development. We need this now, or we must build the pollutant spewing coal plant.
What we are seeking, after all, is not simply an agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. We seek an agreement that will allow us to grow and raise living standards without endangering the planet. By acquiring, developing and disseminating clean technology and sharing the USA know-how, you can help developing us leap-frog dirty energy technologies and reduce dangerous emissions.
The good news is that after too many years of inaction and denial, there is finally widespread recognition of the urgency of the challenge before us. We know what needs to be done. We know that our planet\'s future depends on a global commitment to permanently reduce greenhouse gas pollution. We know you can unleash the creative powerof your best scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to build a bett er world. And so many nations have already taken the first steps on the journey towards that goal.
We just need the USA to recognize this and TEAR the embargo down so we can meet our social responsibility. MR. Obama, we challenge you to have the technology, and resources to us within 3 months. How hard is it to say to your state department. Let them have all the windmills they want to order. We are not asking for these for free. We need these to be equal in cost to the other electric plants we have. Are you willing to let us have the technology? We have contacted the companies, we have the wind plans, we have copy of the wind study, we are trying to arrange financing. We just don’t have the technology, where the company’s employees can travel here. Are you the real world leader, or are these empty words.
As I stated earlier, MR. Obama ... Tear this embargo down.
Happy Holidays to all without frontiers,
Pedro Adrian de la Caridad Borges Fiol
Founder of Grupo PANAMERSA and
Fundacion Pan America (FUNDAPAN)
Pedro Adrian de la Caridad Borges Fiol
Founder of Grupo PANAMERSA and
Fundacion Pan America (FUNDAPAN)
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