A substantial part of the highbrow area of Lagos State may go under in the next fifty years if the predictions of experts in oceanography are anything to go by. The coastal shelf of Victoria Island is at present barely two metres (six feet) above sea level. A remarkable percentage of 15 million Lagosians see Victoria Island and its satellite peninsula, Lekki, as the best part of the State to invest in, and obtain superlative returns in real estate. Yet rising at a pace of one-metre per fifty years, the ocean surge may herald Armageddon for the city. Same goes for the Bayelsa State, a state with vast mangrove creeks which is host to multinational oil producing companies.

Africa is asking developed world to provide $67bn annually to combat, adapt and mitigate effects of climate change and the deal will be sealed in Copenhagen this December. President Yaradua refused to attend the UN Conference in September because of reasons best known to him. What is the assurance that he and other leaders in Nigeria would be attending the so-called "most important negotiations in world's history?"

Please join the cause today and be part of history. Sign the online petition (http://www.formysake.org/savetheearth.html) asking our leaders to personally attend the conference to make a fair, ambitious and binding deal for us and generations to come. We need at least 10,000 people to sign the petition that would be published in newspapers, online and broadcasted on TV by December 6, 2009. A copy will also be sent to the President, VP, Senate, Governors, LG Chairmen, etc.

Sign the petition today and let’s avert the looming disaster. http://www.formysake.org/savetheearth.html

no one, not even the so called experts knows can 100% predict the future.