This Saturday, October 24th, I’m joining thousands of other citizens of all ages and backgrounds who are concerned about the health of our planet. We are going to Rally in Malcolm X/Meridian Hill Park at 16th and Euclid Streets, NW. We will then march down 16th St. to Lafayette Park and form a Circle of Hope across from the White House.
Why?
According to Bill McKibben, co-founder and director of 350.org, “…350 is the most important number in the world…When Arctic ice melted so dramatically in the summer of 2007, scientists realized that global warming was no longer a future threat but a very present crisis. Within months our leading climatologists—especially the NASA team led by James Hansen—were giving us a stark new reality check. Above 350 parts per million carbon dioxide, they wrote, the atmosphere would begin to heat too much for us to have a planet “similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.””
We are currently at 387 and climbing.
Those who I will be marching with want a strong, science-based, just and equitable international climate treaty that gets us on the path toward reducing world carbon emissions to 350 parts per million. This should come out of the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in December. We will be there to support the passage of strong, science-based legislation by Congress and President Obama before that conference.
I hope you will join me. For more information and to register for the event (there is no fee, but they want to know how many people to expect!), click here.
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