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Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.

Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc. In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage. Yet so far the world's response has been feeble and half-hearted.

The Bike for the Planet event was a great success with more than 80 riders participating in the 2 hour event.

Citizens for a Sustainable Cobourg (CSC) held its first Annual General Meeting on January 20th at the United Way of Northumberland meeting room in the Fleming Building, Cobourg.

About twenty enthusiastic new members attended to elect the first Board of Directors and discuss current and future activites. The five individuals chosen to serve on the BoD are Richard Tyssen, Janet Munro, Richard Rieger, Tom Lawson, and Rick Nonnekes.

Positions and duties of the newly-elected board will be decided at the first meeting of the BoD.