The Avaaz aliens are baa-acck!
Since the aliens first arrived on Planet Earth to make an intergalatic intervention at the Barcelona climate meeting earlier this month, they have been roaming the Earth searching for real climate leaders.
When the Avaaz aliens heard that the Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and the new European Union (EU) President Herman Van Rompuy were meeting today to prepare for the Copenhagen climate summit they knew they knew they must attend!
“Someone’s got to hold them accountable. Doesn’t always have to be a human,” says one very green alien in this hot video.
The aliens have become very alarmed that in the midst of a planetary emergency the EU has started to propose some very bad, un-climate leadership-ish, texts for the UN climate negotiations that start next week. Leaked draft proposals by PM Rasmussen and the EU have indicated that they want a totally unambitious and dangerous global peak year of 2020 and NO ADDITIONAL fair climate financing.
The aliens stood at the entrance of Danish Prime Minister’s Marienborg residence- just outside of Copenhagen- and in perfect alien accents asked in unison, “Where are the EU climate leaders? Are there any EU climate leaders?”
The aliens made it clear that real climate leaders will commit to a global emissions peak year of 2015 (what science and survival necessitate) and additional, fair financing.
Because many world leaders – like the EU and US – do not seem to be listening to their people, the aliens also attempted to deliver a petition signed by 9,837,794 global citizens who want a fair, ambitious, and legally binding climate treaty.
When the Prime Minister and EU President heard that aliens were after them, they quickly drove by and pointed from their motorcade. Not very climate leader-y.
The aliens will continue their search for climate leaders, have no fear!
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This just in – A journalist asked the Danish Prime Minister what he thought about the people demonstrating outside. He said that he had been discussing a serious climate deal inside and that the activists [aliens] had demonstrated for a serious deal outside. Apparently he was trying to give the impression that we’re on the same page. Aliens note: We hope so!