[Vision2020] 350.org: Outrage and hope.

[Ted Moffett]

   We're less than 9 days away from Climate Impacts Day on 5/5, and it is
   shaping up to be truly stunning.

   To see all the amazing events coming together across the globe, [1]click
   here:

                         [2][IMG][3]www.climatedots.org

   Friends,

   Picture this: three firefighters, dressed for work, standing in a
   blackened landscape scarred by wildfires and flash floods. They hold
   bright, circular signs: This is climate change. More CO2 = More Wildfires.
   Connect the Dots.

   That's what some of our friends in New Mexico are planning for [4]Climate
   Impacts Day on 5/5/12. That landscape they'll be standing in? The
   Bandelier National Monument, where the largest fire in New Mexico's
   history burned 60% of the park last year. As the planet warms, wildfires
   are getting both fiercer and more frequent. As Ken Frederick of the United
   States Bureau of Land Management and a former firefighter said, "we are in
   the era of the mega-fire."

   But we are also in the era of the mega-movement. 350.org has led global
   days of action before, but things are different this year: for people
   everywhere, the climate crisis is no longer some distant, abstract
   challenge. It's here, it's real, and its impacts are already being felt --
   and people everywhere are taking notice.

   Now it's up to all of us in this movement to use this unique moment in
   history as a planetary wake-up call.  People from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe
   are gearing up for 5/5/12 -- with events that will educate their
   communities and put a human face on the climate crisis. At each and every
   event, activists will take a big group photo of a massive dot representing
   their local climate impacts -- and as soon as the event is over they'll
   upload their photos to ClimateDots.org.

   Our team will connect those climate dots to make a potent mosaic of images
   around the world. We'll spread those images far and wide, and make sure
   that governments and global media start connecting the dots on the climate
   crisis.

   But these actions are linked by more than crisis -- they're also linked by
   hope that together we can overcome this challenge. By coming together with
   bold global action, we'll be strengthening our movement and showing that
   we are united in our outrage and our hope.

   I'm sure that many of you share that hope and outrage. If you do, I look
   forward to joining you in action. To [5]find an action (or [6]start one --
   there's still time to pull together a quick event) visit
   [7]ClimateDots.org.

   Let's do this,

   May Boeve for the 350.org team

   P.S. It's up to every one of us to connect the dots for our friends and
   family -- can you share this call to action with your social networks?
   [8]Click here to share on Facebook and [9]here to share on Twitter.

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   MORE LINKS AND INFO

     * Background and scientific citations for the link between wildfires and
       climate change (and other climate impacts) can be found at
       [10]www.climatedots.org/factsheets

References

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   5. http://act.climatedots.org/go/1285?akid=1801.703294.koR8KU&t=5
   6. http://act.climatedots.org/go/1337?akid=1801.703294.koR8KU&t=6
   7. http://act.350.org/go/1466?akid=1801.703294.koR8KU&t=7
   8. http://act.350.org/go/1463?akid=1801.703294.koR8KU&t=8
   9. http://act.350.org/go/1464?akid=1801.703294.koR8KU&t=9
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett