Cool Climate

On Saturday Margreet posted something in Dutch on her Margreet's Musings blog, with an explanation "FOR MY ENGLISH SPEAKING READERS: This is a Dutch initiative, supported by politicians and other wellknown persons."

I posted a comment on her blog, saying, "Okay, Margreet, I see some words I recognize and can figure out what you are talking about:

CoolClimate, of course, is obvious
de klimaatcrisis ~ and we're in a crisis.
auto ~ part of the problem?
windmolenparken ~ wind power?
groene ~ is this "green"?

I'd say this has to do with global warming and what the Netherlands hopes to do about it. If you'll give me a summary or a translation, I'll post something about it on my Greening the Blue Planet blog." And on Sunday she did share an English version of her post.

Bonnie, and everyone, here's the translation of the article I posted yesterday:

What does Cool Climate want?

Cool Climate asks for action from the politicians, now! Together we ask The Hague to counter global warming. The Netherlands should become a champion in the battle against the climate crisis. We know what to do: plans and techniques are available. Now is the time to use them. We want to make clean cars cheaper and polluting cars more expensive. We want big windmill parks for green electricity. We want to reward 'green' companies and we want better and faster public transport.

One does not stop climate change alone. Climate change touches everybody. That is why we ask as many people as possible to join Cool Climate. Together we will ask the cabinet (government) to take clear steps against global warming. Support our demands to the government and join Cool Climate.

The Netherlands is a small country, compared to the United States. Why aren't we clamoring for our politicians to do something?