I expect to write about this more in the coming weeks, and in more detail, but I wanted to pass on the information right away to those of you that care about global warming and want to further raise consciousness of this civilisational threat so that actual change is brought, in the smartest fashion possible, to our economies and lifestyles.
Step It Up on Global Warming: Communities Uniting for Climate Action Now!
And note the date when rallies need to be organised: April, 14, 2007.
Here's the first part of the invitation from Step It Up:
A Letter From Bill McKibben
Dear Friends—
This is an invitation to help start a movement--to take one spring day and use it to reshape the future. Those of us who know that climate change is the greatest threat civilization now faces have science on our side; we have economists and policy specialists, courageous mayors and governors, engineers with cool new technology.
But we don't have a movement—the largest rally yet held in the U.S. about global warming drew a thousand people. If we're going to make the kind of change we need in the short time left us, we need something that looks like the civil rights movement, and we need it now. Changing light bulbs just isn't enough.
So pitch in. A few of us are trying to organize a nationwide day of hundreds and hundreds of rallies on April 14
As you may remember, Bill McKibben, who wrote The End of Nature, generally recognized as the first mainstream book on global warming (in 1989), has been a strong supporter of Energize America, the kossack community-generated energy policy proposal. He mentioned it in his review for the NYRB of Kos's Crashing the Gates, and again recently in an article in Sierra Magazine about US energy policy.
So I feel it would be only fair to support his efforts to Step It Up by promoting them here.
I just learned of this project this evening, but I intend to check in the coming days if anything similar is planned in Europe, and if it can be started.