Anthony Marr Hope-Care USA 40 State Tour for the Planet and Wildlife

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Anthony Marr
Animal Rights Activist
Climate Change Expert, Environmentalist,



He founded Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE) in 1999 and is the leader of HOPE’s Global Emergency Operation (GEO) on climate change and mass extinction.

He founded the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC) in 2009.

He has conducted 6 Compassion for Animals Road Expeditions (CARE tours) since 2003, each covering 25-44 U.S. states over 3-7 months, and is currently on his 7th Compassion for Animals Road expedition (CARE-7) through 40 United States.

Complete post
http://homosapienssaveyourearth.blogspot.com/2010/04/anthony-marrs-letter-to-ed-asner-los.html


Excerpt from one of his blogs. He is on the first leg of his 40 state whirlwind trip of lectures and demonstrations.

We are currently in the 6th mass extinction which threatens to be the most devastating yet, certainly more so than the 5th which wiped out over 30% of all species including the dinosaurs by means of an asteroid strike 64 million years ago. The 3rd, the End-Permian Mass Extinction 251 million years ago, caused indeed by global warming due to massive volcanic activities associated with continental drift and splitting of continental shields, led to the extinction of 75% of all land species and 95% of all marine species, including all the corals. The current 6th mass extinction promises to match or even outdo the 3rd. The cause of the global warming is different, but the result will be the same or worse. We have an estimated 20 million species on Earth today, only 10% of which is known to science. By the end of this century, over 16 million species could have fallen extinct, including some of the most magnificent, such as the tigers, elephants, bears, rhinos, whales, dolphins, eagles and butterflies. What kind of a world are we passing on to our children?

One thing that could make this nightmare come true is Latent Heat, or rather our unawareness of it. When I give a global warming talk, I often start with a question to the audience, "How many of you have heard of the term 'Latent Heat'?" Of an audience of 100, maybe one or two hands would come out, and at that hesitantly, time after time. Let me explain. Take a pot of ice water, place it on a stove set on low heat, and stir it with a thermometer. My next question would be, "When would the temperature of the water begin to rise?" The answer is, "After all the ice has melted off." For as long as there is ice remaining in the pot, the temperature would remain near freezing. But as soon as the last of the ice cubes have melted, the temperature will rise. It is not exactly that the ice "cools" the water, but that the heat infused into the pot will go first into melting the ice - without raising the temperature, and this is latent heat, "latent" meaning "hidden". After the ice has melted off, however, the temperature will rise, and the heat infused as of this point is called "Sensible Heat". The Arctic Ocean can be considered a huge pot of ice water, and the summer sun the stove. For as long as there is still sea ice to melt, the Arctic Ocean water temperature would remain relatively cool, instigating global warming deniers to say, "Global warming? What global warming?", which is what the oil lobby, which has spent $200 million on the Denial Movement, wants us to say. But as soon as the summer sea ice has completely melted off - as early as 2013 - the Arctic Ocean temperature will rise, and rise meteorically, and by then, it could be too late.



But there is still something even worse - Methane, a far more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide - by about 70X. Methane is a major byproduct of animal agriculture, which annually emits 25% more CO2-equivalent in methane than the entire transportation system. Even more so is the Arctic and subArctic permafrost which is loaded with methane by the billions of tons, and which has already begun melting as we speak, releasing their lethal genie irretrievably into the atmosphere. Once the Arctic water and air temperatures begin to skyrocket - as early as 2013 - the permafrost, both on land and under the sea, will begin melting at unprecedented rates, and vast quantities of methane will be released into the atmosphere, enough to generate its own feedback loop, where more methane in the atmosphere will warm up the globe even faster, melting even more permafrost, releasing even more methane. Once this process has begun, the much dreaded Runaway Global Heating can be said to have commenced. Once it has started, it will be almost unstoppable. Another term for Runaway Global Heating is the Methane Time-Bomb, or the M-Bomb - a "slow bomb" which would take decades to spend, but once detonated, it will inexorably run its course until it is spent, by which time millions of species will have fallen extinct. Quite amazing really to see how this coincides with the Mayan calendar prediction of December 21, 2012, being the end of the world.

Something so momentous - Latent Heat and the Methane Time-bomb - should have become a household word but now. But think back to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change convention, or the 2009 one at Copenhagen - how many times have you heard the term "Latent Heal" or the word "Methane" mentioned? Almost zero times. At most, they talk about CO2, which is only the fuse. The bomb is Methane.



It is predicted that the 21st Century will be a century of global drought. Consider the 20,000 glaciers in the Himalayas which feed the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers due east, and the six rivers in Southeast Asia and India due south, the latter providing for over 1.5 billion people today. What will happen after they have all melted off later this century? Jame Lovelock of Gaia Hypothesis fame predicts that by the end of this century, 5 billion people will have perished due to water shortages, and therefore food shortages, and therefore mass starvation.

Back to the present, as mentioned before, while I conduct a long tour, I offer local activists and groups my aid to their local campaigns.

Obviously, to conduct a 40-states-in-7-months road tour won't come cheap. We have no budget to finance the entire tour. It is a wing and a prayer and one day at a time. If you could help sustain this 7th Compassion for Animals Road Expedition of mine, I would be eternally grateful. I created my organization Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE) in 1999, and have yet to pay myself a single cent in salary. Rest assured that all donation dollars will go to the animals, the planet, and our children's future.

Thank you for reading my proposal.

Sincerely yours,

Anthony Marr.

http://www.homosapienssaveyourearth.blogspot.com/


40 states in 7 months.

Itinerary
7 months
April to October 2010

BC - 2010-01-01 - 2010-03-30
WA - 03-31 - 04-03
CA - 04-07 - 05-03
NV- 05-04 05-07
AZ - 05-08 - 05-12
NM - 05-13 - 05-14
TX - 05-15 - 05-22
LA - 05-24 - 05-25
MS
AL - 05-26 – 05-29
FL - 05-30 - 06-14
GA - 06-15 - 06-16
SC - 06-17 - 06-18
NC - 06-19 - 06-24
VA - 06-25 - 06-27
WV - 06-28 - 06-30
MD - 07-01 - 08-31
DC - 07-01 - 08-31
PA - 07-01- 08-31
NJ - 07-01 - 08-31
NY - 07-01 - 08-31
CT - 07-01 - 08-31
MA - 07-01 - 08-31
ME – 07-01 – 08-31
NH - 07-01 - 08-31
VT - 07-01 - 08-31
NY – 07-01 – 08-31
PA - 09-01 - 09-04
OH - 09-05 - 09-12
MI - 09-13 - 09-14
IN - 09-15 - 09-18
IL - 09-19 - 09-23
WI - 09-24 - 09-28
IA - 09-29 - 09-30
NE - 10-01 - 10-03
CO - 10-04 - 10-09
WY - 10-10 - 10-11
MT - 10-12 - 10-16
AB - 10-16 - 10-18
BC