[Sosfbay-discuss] [G-C-F] Step it up

[Tian Harter]

This Saturday in Palo Alto there is a Step It Up event
in Mitchell Park, 1 PM to 3 PM. I plan to be there.

Wes Rolley wrote:

>The following was copied from Carl Pope's blog, where today, Bill 
>McKibbon was the "guest blogger."
>It sounds like good news, especially if they meet their grassroots 
>goal.  Funny, a grassroots effort run by the Green Group right from the 
>beltway.  But hey, if it work....
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>It's looking increasingly likely that Congress will finally do something 
>about global warming. The question is, how much and how fast?
>
>The science, by now, is uncomfortably clear. Only really dramatic 
>action, beginning now and lasting long into the future, has any hope of 
>making enough difference. If we'd started taking action as soon as we 
>found out about climate change twenty years ago, we'd be halfway there 
>by now and able to take gradual and measured action. But instead we've 
>had a twenty-year bipartisan effort to do nothing, and hence our backs 
>are against the wall. NASA scientist James Hansen has told us we need to 
>reverse the flow of carbon into the atmosphere in the next decade, a 
>tall order here and a much taller one abroad. But our only hope of 
>persuading China and India to think in new directions is if we start 
>taking credible action ourselves.
>
>When we started Stepitup07.org <http://www.stepitup07.org> in January, 
>some people said our goal of 80 percent cuts by 2050 was too stiff, that 
>it would scare people off. Instead, it seems to have drawn them in -- 
>the total number of rallies is now nearing 1,350 -- by far the largest 
>day of grassroots environmental action since Earth Day 1970. And what 
>seemed radical eleven weeks ago seems more and more mainstream all the 
>time -- last week, for instance, John Edwards became the first of the 
>Democratic presidential candidates to release a comprehensive energy 
>plan, and it called for: 80 percent cuts in carbon emissions by 2050. We 
>sent up a cheer at our small HQ when we heard the news, and we're 
>confident others will follow.
>
>We're equally glad that the environmental community -- the big 
>organizations that join together in the Beltway's Green Group to work on 
>policy initiatives -- seem to be holding firm for the same size targets. 
>Sometimes in the past, one or two have peeled away and reached separate 
>deals with special interests to water down environmental demands. But, 
>if all those rallies on April 14 mean anything, that won't happen this 
>time. We'll stick to the fight for real action.
>
>Because it's what the science demands, and because it's what the people 
>want.
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-- 
Tian
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