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Clicking here will automatically add your name to this petition to the the Obama Administration: "Oil drilling in the Arctic will not reduce oil prices, is not safe, and is not worth the risks. Please stand up to pressure from oil companies and halt the dangerous plans to drill in the pristine Arctic waters." Automatically add your name: Learn more about this campaign Tell Pres. Obama: Don't let Shell drill in the Arctic! Dear Reader and follow citizen of the World-I AM PASSING THE E-MAIL ON --we need the Arctic to be the Arctic far more than we do a few more galleons of oil. After all, we humans must get off our fossil fuel addiction. We need re-usable energy that does not cause Global Climate Change by increasing the amount of Carbon in our atmosphere--not just for ourselves but for future generations. "Right now, Shell's Kulluk drilling rig is getting towed up the Pacific Coast to the Arctic.1 The Arctic has never been drilled for oil, not even under President George W. Bush. But at the end of March, the Obama Administration approved Shell Oil's inadequate spill plan for the Beaufort Sea.2 Drilling in these pristine waters could begin as soon as this summer. This is the eleventh hour. But President Obama still has to approve the final Permit to Drill — and a decision could come by the end of this month. Tell the Obama Administration: Don't let Shell drill in the Arctic. Click here to sign the petition. The Arctic's Beaufort and Chukchi seas are like nurseries of the earth — providing crucial breeding ground and food supply for countless species of wildlife. Upsetting this habitat would have broad ripples through the wildlife food chain literally across the globe. Almost exactly two years after the devastating Deepwater Horizon spill, the impacts are still being felt by the Gulf Coast and Gulf marine life. In many ways, we still don't understand the long term damage caused by the massive volume of spilled oil and toxic dispersals. In his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Obama promised: "I will not back down from making sure an oil company can contain the kind of oil spill we saw in the Gulf two years ago." But there is still no proven way to clean up an oil spill in the extreme arctic environment — which includes hurricane force storms, 20-foot swells, pervasive sea ice, low temperatures and months of darkness.3 It's not late for Obama to call off Shell's drill bits. Tell Obama: Stand up to Big Oil and protect the Arctic. Click here to automatically sign the petition. President Obama says his energy plan is "all-of-the-above." But between pushing the southern, export portion of the Keystone XL Pipeline, and now opening the Arctic to drill for oil that won't do anything to reduce gas prices,4 it seems a whole lot more like President Obama's energy plan is "oil-above-all." President Obama needs to stand up to pressure from the oil industry, and admit what we all know: Drilling in the Arctic is a terrible, misguided idea, that's just not worth the risk to this one-of-a-kind area, or the damage we know it will do to our climate. Click below to automatically sign the petition below: http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=5546424&id=38375-3349455-lyZJivx&t=10 Thanks for working to move us past oil drilling." Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager CREDO Action from Working Assets 1. "New era in Alaska drilling looms," LA Times, March 4, 2012 2. "Shell Wins 'Safety' Permit From Obama Administration To Start Dangerous Drilling In Arctic Seas ," Think Progress, March 28, 2012 3. "Arctic "should remain off-limits to drilling"," Oil Change International, Feburary 6, 2012 4. "U.S. drilling won't lower gas prices, study shows," Associated Press, March 22, 2012 Be part of the 2,000 additional members for Earth Day on April 22 to show your support for the environment.  Join the Sierra Club today!   OR Dear Reader-I AM ALSO PASSING THIS E-MAIL ON, since I do far more blogging than Facebooking. This is My Method of sharing with the world--Blogging is what I think that  I do best--This is our World--Therefore It Is Our Responsibility to maintain. After all, there is Far Far more to life than simply making money and becoming rich. After all, we cannot eat money- we cannot drink money- we cannot breath money: "There are only 8 days left until Earth Day and we still need over 1,300 new members to reach our goal.  Will you show your support for protecting the environment, endangered wildlife, and wild lands? Join the Sierra Club this Earth Day. Why join the Sierra Club? 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