Fwd: Heading to the Bay Area
yasemin kimyacioglu
From: Jamie Henn - 350.org <organ...@350.org>
Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:33 PM
Subject: Heading to the Bay Area
To: Yasemin Kimyacioglu <yase...@gmail.com>
Friends-
The climate change math is fairly simple:
We can burn 565 more gigatons of carbon and stay below 2°C of warming -- anything more than that risks catastrophe for life on earth. The problem is, the fossil fuel corporations now have 2,795 gigatons in their reserves, five times the safe amount. And they’re planning to burn it all because the industry thinks that their bottom line is worth more than a livable planet like the one we grew up with.
All of the climate catastrophes we witnessed this summer -- the nation's breadbasket drying out, the historic Arctic melting, and fires sweeping the West -- are the product of that calculation by the fossil fuel industry.
This November, Bill McKibben and 350.org are embarking on a nationwide trek -- the Do the Math Tour -- that will explain the scary math of climate change, and lay out the plan to take on the fossil fuel industry before they trade away our future for a quick buck.
Bill will actually be in the Bay Area for 2 nights during the tour, November 9th and 10th -- and we want you to be there with us for whichever night you can make. The energy is already running high (a few of the other tour dates are beginning to sell out) -- in the future, you'll look back to this night. You'll remember it as the moment things really kicked into high gear, when we laid the groundwork for the epic fight ahead of us.
Can you join Bill on the 9th or 10th? Here are the places to RSVP:
Berkeley, November 9th at 7 PM: act.350.org/signup/berkeley-do-the-math/
Palo Alto, November 10th at 7 PM: www.eventbrite.com/event/4357409128
This will be a different kind of event. For one, it's not just Bill talking -- we’ll have music and special guests both in person and via video, plus all of the best climate organizers we can find in and around the Bay.
It's also the springboard to the next phase of climate change organizing in the US. All across the country people are planning new campaigns targeting the fossil fuel industry's financial might, using divestment, civil disobedience and strategic pressure campaigns. It's quite a task -- and if we expect to have a shot at success, we'll need everyone we can find to be working together.
I hope that includes you. Click here to RSVP for Berkeley: act.350.org/signup/berkeley-do-the-math/ and here for Palo Alto: www.eventbrite.com/event/4357409128
Hope to see you soon,
Jamie
P.S. - Bill will also be speaking at San Francisco's Greenfest earlier in the day on the 10th. Bill's talk will be just an hour, so if you can make it to the other events you should. You can sign up for Greenfest tickets here: act.350.org/signup/sf-do-the-math/
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