Don’t Sleep Through The Revolution
Thursday/22 October 2009
Two days until the International Day of Action on Climate
Change. Let's get ready and not leave this one to the last
minute of bleary-eyed confusion, grasping for ideas, wondering
where to go and how to do it. Rouse your soporific consciousness
from that dog-eared copy of Wart Removal For
Dummies.
If we can morph into pro-seatbelt, anti-smoking, bicycle helmet-wearing models of all that is good, in the blink of a decade, then surely we can come together and bring down the scary level of CO2 in our atmosphere to, yes, 350 parts per million. Oh yeah. Ring that birth-day bell.
Let's suppose you are scrambling in mild disorientation to find a local action to join with on Saturday — Yes, THIS SATURDAY! No matter where you live there will be something going on. It's a WorldWIdeWeb of People. It's the biggest trans-national gathering toward an environmental goal that has ever occurred. It's a wet dream for the Noetic scientist.
You'll kick your own butt 350 times if you miss out.
173 countries have 4517 events. Plus the one that I will be doing -- it isn't registered. I was going to be with a flash mob but fractured a metatarsal instead. Now I plan to sit in the heart of the Victoria Inner Harbour, across from the BC Legislature or the Empress Hotel and hold up a laminated 350 sign, smile and talk with anyone who cares. I will bring some extras in case anyone wants to join with me.
Even the big Anglican Cathedral in downtown Victoria is on the bit. It will ring its bell 350 times. It's a registered event. Dig it.
So, supposing you have left it until today to find something to latch onto, to add yourself too, check THIS PAGE.
Or, you can still make up an activity of your own. Need ideas? 350.org has some for you.
And, oh yeah, not trying to be too much of a pest, but PM Harper really is a recalcitrant fellow on the CO2 emmisions reduction gig. Phone him. It's an emergency.
If we can morph into pro-seatbelt, anti-smoking, bicycle helmet-wearing models of all that is good, in the blink of a decade, then surely we can come together and bring down the scary level of CO2 in our atmosphere to, yes, 350 parts per million. Oh yeah. Ring that birth-day bell.
Let's suppose you are scrambling in mild disorientation to find a local action to join with on Saturday — Yes, THIS SATURDAY! No matter where you live there will be something going on. It's a WorldWIdeWeb of People. It's the biggest trans-national gathering toward an environmental goal that has ever occurred. It's a wet dream for the Noetic scientist.
You'll kick your own butt 350 times if you miss out.
173 countries have 4517 events. Plus the one that I will be doing -- it isn't registered. I was going to be with a flash mob but fractured a metatarsal instead. Now I plan to sit in the heart of the Victoria Inner Harbour, across from the BC Legislature or the Empress Hotel and hold up a laminated 350 sign, smile and talk with anyone who cares. I will bring some extras in case anyone wants to join with me.
Even the big Anglican Cathedral in downtown Victoria is on the bit. It will ring its bell 350 times. It's a registered event. Dig it.
So, supposing you have left it until today to find something to latch onto, to add yourself too, check THIS PAGE.
Or, you can still make up an activity of your own. Need ideas? 350.org has some for you.
And, oh yeah, not trying to be too much of a pest, but PM Harper really is a recalcitrant fellow on the CO2 emmisions reduction gig. Phone him. It's an emergency.
