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Imagine
giant beasts like these ripping up our ocean
floors! Norway wants to do just
that by unleashing massive machines to do
dangerous and untested deep-sea mining. The key
parliamentary Committee is discussing right now
and it’s on a knife edge – and that’s where we
come in: Norwegian
politicians care
about their global
image and aren't often
the target of people power from across the world
– If we join our voices now with local citizens
already taking to the streets we can
help kill this harmful plan.
Let's stop this before it starts:
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Dear
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Norway
wants to let giant
machines rip up the ocean floor in the
Arctic… vandalising one of the last
remaining untouched places of our planet and
wrecking important areas for whales and
countless other species.
It’s called
deep-sea mining, and we have a window of
opportunity to stop it before it starts
-- simultaneously protecting
a stretch of seabed the size of
the United Kingdom, and boosting
the global call for a ban on
deep-sea mining everywhere.
Here's how:
Norway’s government isn’t often the target of
people power from around the world. They care
about their global image, and with the key
Committee set to publish a recommendation
soon, allies in the country say
Avaazers speaking out en masse will
make a huge impression. Citizens in Norway have
been hitting the streets and sending messages,
now let's join our voice with theirs:
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We
need to stop Norway, but this is about so much
more. The world is deciding whether to
start destroying the ocean floor like
we have our mountains, rivers, and forests on
land.
Imagine if we’d had the chance to
stop chasing fossil fuels before we burnt,
drilled, dredged and polluted our planet to the
brink of catastrophe. We are there right now
with our oceans.
Dozens of
countries are already calling to ban or at least
pause for these mining activities — to
win time to regulate the deep-sea properly. And
even private companies are rallying
behind.
Norway's parliament is looking at
the deep-sea mining plans right now,
and time is running out.
There’s real momentum and it’s working – just
days ago, Norway was slammed at an ocean summit,
and the more we can help turn pursuing
deep-sea mining into an international issue, the
higher the chances politicians reject
it. Together we can stand with
countries that are committed to protecting our
oceans, and against politicians like Norway's
Prime Minister who want to rush into untested
waters. Sign and share
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Avaazers
love the oceans and all ocean life – together,
we’ve helped establish some of the largest
marine reserves in history. When the blue whale
was close to extinction, we brought millions
together and convinced Europe to close its ports
to whalers. Today our movement can join others
to protect our oceans and their incredible
animals from yet another threat: the
irreversible destruction of their habitat on a
multi-generational timescale.
With hope
and determination,
Antonia, Nate, Mel,
Huiting, John, and the whole Avaaz
team
Image: The image is a still from
a Greenpeace animation about deep-sea mining,
not a photo of a real deep-sea mining operation.
Used with friendly permission.
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