The Harvard Crimson - Activist Urges Climate Awareness

As an unusually early first snow fell on Harvard grounds yesterday afternoon, activist William E. McKibben ’82 spoke to an audience of over 150 people in Memorial Church, requesting their help in drawing attention to the drastic effects of climate change.

“Climate change is no longer a future threat,” McKibben said. “It is a very present crisis breaking over our heads this moment, by far the greatest crisis our species has seen yet.”
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On International Climate Day, the advertising screens in Times Square will broadcast real-time images from demonstrations from around the world. On that day, people will be gathering to form a massive number 3 in Israel, a 5 in the West Bank, and a 0 in Jordan at the point where their three borders meet.

McKibben encouraged audience members to partake in one of Boston’s International Climate Day demonstrations, including the 350 Under Water Festival held at the Aquarium T-Stop. It will resemble a similar event in which the president of the Maldives held an underwater cabinet meeting to sign a climate change resolution.

New England Sees Snow Fall in Mid-October | ABC6

October is a month that has a little bit of something for everybody in New England. Halloween, apple picking, watching the leaves change colors, and the fall air becomes cool, but who knew it would be cool enough for snow?

[Should young people make critical family planning decisions based on some journalist's irrational fear of carbon dioxide?]

Andrew Revkin, an environmental reporter for The New York Times and author of the paper's Dot Earth blog, warns that the math is pretty depressing.
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"The single most concrete, substantive thing a young American could do is not turning off the lights or driving a Prius," Revkin said. "It's having fewer kids."

Is a soda pop fee really the answer?

"It's an idea that we should be exploring. There's no doubt that our kids drink way too much soda." - Barack Obama, concerning more tax on soda pop

Have you noticed all the caring politicians ready to save you from yourself? Al Gore (who grew it - but probably never inhaled) preached against tobacco, Arianna Huffington, against SUV's (and those who use as much energy as she does) and the anti trans-fat minions. Now it's soda pop, which San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom calls "the new tobacco."