International Climate Change Action Day 2009 Engages Millions Around The World

News coverage from around the world has profiled local and nationally organized event across the globe for this year’s International Climate Change Action Day!  In many locations, the sight of people gathering together to spell out “350″ has been captured by news media.  The group www.350.org has helped to organize profiling the target of ”350″ parts per million of carbon dioxide in the air, a figure identified by NASA scientists as the highest safety threshold – currently, the world’s measured level is 387 ppm.  You can find out what events are happening in your city or country by going onto the 350 Org website, and join your community in making your voice heard for climate change.

It is expected that more than 5,200 events will take place in more than 180 countries around the world today.  The day is meant to have local action take on global proportions and impact, with organizers hoping there will be a groundswell of support in future events such as the next round of global climate discussions in Copenhagen. 

Worldwide events kicked off in Australia, as thousands of people formed a living “350″ in front of Sydney’s famed Opera House, while others held “350″ placards on the city’s popular Bondi Beach.  Participants in Paris synchronized thousands of alarm clocks to ring simultaneously, in order to send a “wake up” call to President Sarkozy to take climate change more seriously.  Despite being in a war zone, people in Kabul plan to write “350″ in chalk on a mountainside.

In North America, Canadians across the country have also organized a variety of events such as 350 bicyclists riding in unison in Montreal, a church in Victoria will be ringing its bell 350 times in one hour, while a group of individuals dressed in mourning black will gather and chant “tick, tick, tick” to symbolize the ticking time bomb they believe climate change to be.  In the United States, local events have also been planned right across the country, from gathering groups to spell out “350″, to bicycle rallies, to creating discussion groups for brainstorming on ways to reduce CO2 emissions, today truly is poised to be the most widespread day of environmental action in the history of the world.

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Posted by SBurke on Oct 24 2009. Filed under Environmental. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry