International Day of Climate Action- 350
24th of October was the International Say of Climate action and many of us participated in this global day through our own interesting ways...
Just sharing with you the letter from 350 ...
Dear friends,
For 20 years the world has managed to do very little about the greatest problem it's ever faced. In three days time, you can help change that--and if you step up you're going to have a lot of company!
It looks like the International Day of Climate Action this Saturday October 24th will be the single most widespread day of political action the planet has ever seen--we're closing in on 170 nations, and more than 4000 rallies and events.
There will be climate events from the bottom of the Great Barrier Reef to the summit of Mount Everest. At each event -- at rallies and parties and deep-sea dives -- people will take a big photo that somehow depicts the number 350. Our crew at 350.org will be taking these thousands of photos, projecting them on the giant screens in New York's Times Square, and delivering them directly to hundreds of world leaders and politicians in the coming weeks.
There's almost certainly an event happening near you--if you're not sure what, this link will let you find out quickly and easily:
www.350.org/map
People in all those cities and towns all around the world will be saying the same thing: science tells us that we can't have more than 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere if we want a planet like the one we were born onto. That sounds complicated, but it isn't--350 is the bottom line for the earth.
Please take a moment to forward this along to everyone you know in your community and around the world, and ask them to find an event near them to take part on on this important day: www.350.org/map
Thanks for everything you do,
Bill McKibben for the 350.org Crew
P.S. We're simply astonished by the viral growth of this movement in the last couple of weeks--can you spare 15 seconds and two mouse-clicks to share the momentum with everyone you know on Twitter and Facebook? Many many thanks.
Posted in: on Sunday, October 25, 2009 at at 12:18 PM
Its quite heartening to see the advoccy and the awareness that has been initiated on climate change and it is the need of the hour. A few weeks back , There was an article in the nwespaper stating " In the coming Decades Ganga is likely to shrink even faster and could even disappear in another year, the survey is known as changes in continetal fresh water discharge. The issue needs to be seriously addressed.
I agree abhijeet it is incredible.. and young people need to come together now and take action...
Yeah, I agree and there are a lot of issues which have not even been addressed on climate change. For instance, Recently I read an article which stated that cel phone waste is posing a threat to environment.As per a recent report there is a a growing need to better manage the rising cellphone as it is posing a threat to environment and a whopping 8000 tonnes is estimated to burden the earth by 2012. It is a serious threat to the seventh MDG of environmental sustainability.