Oct 24 is Climate Action Day!
This Saturday, do not forget…the world will be commemorating the International Day of Climate Action. This is when people all over the world are encouraged to take part and learn or increase public awareness about the Climate Treaty which thrusts that conditions of the climate should return to “350″.
That number is so significant as scientists say it is when the Earth’s carbon dioxide is at its best atmospheric conditions. Currently, we have exceeded this measurement by 30+ ppm as it is now in the 387 mark, causing ice caps to melt in the Artic regions or droughts in many parts of the world, or the freak weather conditions we’ve been having lately.
The United Nations is behind this Climate Treaty which should be completed in December. Accordingly, this world event on Saturday is “to inspire the world to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis—to create a new sense of urgency and of possibility for our planet.”
Please visit the 350.org website for more information on how to participate. Over 160 countries are expected to join in this.
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How will this make a difference?
October 24 will put the focus where it needs to be: on the science and the citizens, not the special interests and the backroom deals.
On that day, people will send in thousands of images of citizens gathering at important places around the world—from the melting glaciers of Mt. Everest to the sinking beaches of the Maldives—displaying the number 350 in a creative way. 350.org will be getting those pictures and putting them on the big screens in Times Square and projecting them at the UN headquarters. We’ll also be getting them into newspapers large and small on October 25th—the same newspapers that politicians all over the world use as a barometer of public opinion.
But more importantly, we’ll be able to use them in the weeks before the huge UN Climate meeting in Copenhagen to remind our leaders that they need to take physical reality—and not political expediency—into account when they’re making decisions about our collective future. 350 is a clear and specific goal (unlike vague demands to “stop global warming”) that helps move the negotiations in the direction science and justice demand.
We’ll also deliver copies of the images—and the stories that go with them—to national delegates and heads of state the world over. We’ll make sure your voice is heard and this debate is re-framed in time to make a difference.
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