Bill McKibben is a writer, activist,and co-founder of 350.org an international grassroots campaign to spread awareness of the need to keep CO2 levels in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million or lower. Mckibben is author of The End of Nature, the first book on climate change for a general audience. He has also written several other well respected books including, The Age of Missing Information, Maybe One, Enough, and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable future.
Inspiration for 350.org came after Bill attended a speech by Dr. James Hanson, NAASA climate scientist, in which he said that the levels over 350ppm were too high, at least "if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on earth adapt."
October 24 is a global day of action for 350.org. People around the world will be taking actions calling on governments to come to an agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference that will steer us back towards a concentration of 350ppm of greenhouse gasses--a safe level for our planet. Here is what Bill McKibben has to say--
"Dear World,
This is an invitation to build a movement--to take one day and use it to stop the climate crisis.
We are a group of people from around the planet--young and old, scientists, writers and activists--who have one thing in common. We know the most important number on earth: 350. And we know how to use that number to finally get global action on the worst crisis humans have ever faced. But we can only do it if you help."
Bill McKibben.
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