Peace Plus One + 350.org = 100 Days Countdown: Where we go from here.
Philip McMaster
individual "3 Finger" level - i.e. promote participation in 350 with
many people also showing their personal commitment to making a
difference with the Peace Plus One Sustainability Symbol...
What do you think? good idea?
Let's try!
Peace Plus One_\!/
Philip
大龙 Da Long 菲利普Philippo
(in Shanghai)
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Dear Friends-
We're now a hundred days away from October 24, the day when together
we'll manage to change the debate on global warming--away from narrow
politics and towards a planet with a future.
"Together" is the key word in that sentence--it won't happen without
you. We need every hand on deck in these last precious weeks.
And to make sure all those hands are working in harmony, it would be
an enormous help if you could fill out this quick survey to help
answer some key strategic questions for 350.org moving forward. Your
answers will help our team better serve the growing international
climate movement, and will help determine how we play our cards in the
months ahead. The poll is just 8 questions long--visit this link to
add your voice:
So far, things are going better than we could possibly have hoped.
I've just come back from Turkey, where we helped organize a three-week
training session for young activists from across Central Asia. They're
spreading the 350 message across vast swaths of the planet where
there's barely been an environmental movement before.
Tomorrow I get on the plane for India, the Maldives, and the countries
of the Middle East--check out the website for regular updates from me,
and from our organizing staff all over the globe. And of course, we
have pictures--yes, those are 350 kayaks in the shape of 350, and 350
activists from the Dominican Republic on the Spanish BBC, and much
more on our blog.
But the most important updates will come from you, as you start
checking in to let us know how your events are coming together for
October 24. If you haven't registered your action yet, please use this
link and get your action on the map today: http://www.350.org/oct24
Knowing you're out there will will make it easier for us to help you
plan and organize.
And we need your help too in reaching out to others. It is clear that
October 24 is going to be one of the biggest days of environmental
action ever, and without any doubt the most widespread.
We've already got actions planned in almost half the countries in the
world--just yesterday we added Rwanda to the list--but we want to be
everywhere, and we really need you to spend half an hour with your
email address book spreading the word.
If you know people who love to climb mountains, here's a letter to
spread from some of the world's greatest climbers; here's one from our
finest oceanographer; from some of our leading businesspeople; for
farmers and food activists; and from leaders of faith communities. As
you can see, this is spreading far beyond normal environmental
circles--it's turning into a true movement.
Remember--we're not an organization exactly, we're more of an open
source campaign--so we rely on the help of friends and allies all over
the world. We're working with everyone from established environmental
organizations to local schools. And we're part of a big coalition,
TckTckTck, that will be sponsoring all kinds of activity beginning in
September to build this movement.
And a movement is exactly what we need, because too many politicians
are talking about taking the easy way out, negotiating an
international climate agreement that will do too little. World leaders
are gathering this December in Copenhagen to hammer out a global
climate agreement, but their latest targets call for holding
temperature increases to two degrees Celsius.
But we've already raised the temperature one degree, and that's been
enough to melt the Arctic, flood cities, and make plentiful farms
arid. It's time, past time, to stand on the brakes and throw this
runaway car into reverse. We know the planet's bottom line: above 350
parts per million CO2, we can't have an earth "similar to the one on
which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted."
So that's what we need to ask for. As I wrote today in a new article
for the Guardian: politicians can bend; physics can't. It's that
simple.
I confess I'm a little weary some of the time--trying to organize the
planet is hard work for our whole team, spread out in offices from
Johannesburg to Budapest, from Quito to Beirut, from Kuala Lumpur to
Berlin.
But we have a hundred days to try and prevent a hundred centuries of
devastating damage to this beautiful earth. Thanks for pouring your
heart and soul into it, and let us know how we can help.
With great faith,
Bill McKibben for the entire 350.org Team
P.S. Please help pass this update around--my younger and more
technologically adept colleagues assure me that if you have a Facebook
or Twitter Account, you can re-post it with just a couple of clicks:
Share on Twitter
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350.org is an international grassroots campaign that aims to mobilize
a global climate movement united by a common call to action. By
spreading an understanding of the science and a shared vision for a
fair policy, we will ensure that the world creates bold and equitable
solutions to the climate crisis. 350.org is an independent and
not-for-profit project.
What is 350? 350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe
upper limit for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Scientists measure
carbon dioxide in "parts per million" (ppm), so 350ppm the number
humanity needs to get below as soon as possible to avoid runaway
climate change. To get there, we need a different kind of PPM-a
"people powered movement" that is made of of people like you in every
corner of the planet. Right now, the 350 movement is focused on a
MASSIVE International Day of Climate Action on the 24th of October,
2009. Make sure your community is on the map--with our common call to
action, we'll make it clear: the world needs a binding global treaty
that gets our planet back to safety.
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