It’s simple math: we can burn less than 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide and stay below 2°C of warming — anything more than that risks catastrophe for life on earth. The only problem? Fossil fuel corporations now have 2,795 gigatons in their reserves, five times the safe amount. And they’re planning to burn it all — unless we rise up to stop them.
In November 2012, Bill McKibben and 350.org hit the road to build a movement strong enough to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis. The Do the Math Tour was a massive success, with sold out shows in every corner of the country.
There seems a social front, and a personal front, to this struggle. Regarding the personal front, perhaps to take pride in leaving as small a footprint and legacy as possible in one's passage through this life, is deep meaningful rebellion against the cultural status quo that led us to this precarious position.
Something along those lines might be a helpful meme to spread. -------- Also, here's a quote from Ed Buryn's "Vagabonding in America," brought to mind by Do The Math's cry for change in how we pursue life -
"Habit is the child of the machine, trying to make an experience, a time, a thought or action the same as any other. No matter how good, worthwhile or beneficial in the beginning, habit always ends up draining the life out of the action, the juice out of thought and meaning out of result. Habit is a stagnant pool, making one moment like another; it is, therefore, corrupt and pestilential. Life is a clear, flowing stream; and each day, each minute, each instant must be met on its own terms, fresh, forever changing and irretrievable. Habit becomes system; system becomes machine; machine is death." -------- I also liked that poster at the pipeline protest - "If you build it, it will leak."
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