The Day the World Came Together - The 350 Movement: October 24, 2009

On 24 October, people in 181 countries came together to speak with one voice on the most urgent issue of our times: the climate crisis. Through http://www.350.org, people in every corner of the planet coordinated the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet's history.

At over 5200 events around the world, people gathered to call for strong action and bold leadership on the climate crisis. By the days end, it was clear: people of all kinds in just about every place on earth are calling for a fair, ambitious, and binding global climate treaty.

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[kbarnett2]

"We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy."

- Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation

[sophiabliu]

This was an amazing global convergence event that visually showed the solidarity around climate action. Let's not just make this one historical day to remember but rather a living practice of climate action everyday from now on.

[FactualSolutions]

Did you know?

The Zeitgeist Movement is another Group out there that has brought up some Real and Tangible Solutions to ACTUALLY SOLVE OUR ECONOMICAL, SOCIAL & ECOLOGICAL CRISIS - to know more about it, watch: "Awakening - Multilang - 1/4" (short video) and "Zeitgeist Addendum". Both of them are on YouTube.The SOLUTIONS presented in both videos are already being applied and they have already been proved to work in the short and long run. It's about time to expand/spread it World Wide.

:)

FS

[MazeleyFanClub]

@ukpropaganda So you think the Earth can support infinite people, and also that we can do anything we want to it without consequences. I bow to your amazing wisdom.

[ukpropaganda]

I've recycled for nearly 30 years, cycle regularly, hardly use the car, buy locally, have crappy low energy light bulbs, etc...etc.....but I don't subscribe to the global warming scam that is brainwashing people worldwide.

It is being used as a deception to trick you into paying new 'green' taxes and is also the front for mass killings of people as the endgame.

Yes: mass murder (disguised as population reduction).

[ttowntom]

Man has grown food everywhere from the desert to flooded rice patties, with nothing but first-century technology. 100 years from now, with 22nd century technology, the idea that minor changes in rainfall will do anything but boost agricultural output is fatuous nonsense. And in fact, we're already seeing that today. Areas of the US Southwest have had dramatic rainfall decreases, where parts of the SE have seen increases. Yet BOTH areas have had agricultural output increase sharply.

[ttowntom]

Of course, GW means some areas will receive slightly more rainfall, while others slightly less. I've even seen some incredibly simple-minded studies that claim this will reduce agricultural output. That would only be true if we did absolutely nothing about it. In reality, no area on earth today receives the ideal amount of rainfall for all crops. Farmers choose the proper crop for the area, and/or they irrigate or drain as needed.

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[ttowntom]

Part of that increase is due to CO2. CO2 is nothing but airborne plant food. Most commercial greenhouses artificially boost CO2 levels to 1000-1200 ppm (current atmospheric level is 390ppm). The higher rate makes plants grow faster...which in turn leads to more of all life in general.

In fact, during the Carboniferous period, atmospheric CO2 was over 5,000 ppm ... and it was the lushest, most bio-diverse period in Earth's history.

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[ttowntom]

Agricultural production continues to rise each and every year. In the US, we actually have LESS land under cultivation than we did in 1900, despite having 3X the population. That's how much agricultural output has risen. And in most nations, the largest problem is eating too much, not starvation.

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[ttowntom]

As for this "delicate ecosystem" nonsense, the fact is that, if AGW were true, it would lead to greater food production, not less. A warmer world is a more fertile one. The average temperature of the planet now is 54F. But man (and most of the plants and animals we depend upon) prefer something far warmer. Currently, more than 25X as much crop damage occurs from frost as from heat stress.

[ttowntom]

@Mazeley,

Wrong on all counts. The latest research has shown *zero* acceleration of sea level rise over the last 100 years, and an average rate of 6 inches per _century_. That's *less* than the rate the ocean was rising several thousand years ago. The idea that "millions" will be displaced due to AGW is a persistent myth not supported by the science. I'll be happy to provide you with multiple peer-reviewed papers that verify this.

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