{"id":19586,"date":"2014-05-21T12:31:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T17:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=19586"},"modified":"2017-12-06T19:13:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:13:15","slug":"a-call-to-arms-about-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/21\/a-call-to-arms-about-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"A Call To Arms about Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of millions of red blooded Americans, Tea Partiers, were called to Washington DC the other day to overthrow the government.  A few hundreds or so showed up.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Bill McKibben, of 350.org, is calling Americans to New York City, not to overthrow the government but to talk some sense into it.  I&#8217;ll bet more than a few hundred people show up!<\/p>\n<p>McKibben wrote an item for Rolling Stones that you should read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/a-call-to-arms-an-invitation-to-demand-action-on-climate-change-20140521\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an invitation, an invitation to come to New York City. An invitation to anyone who&#8217;d like to prove to themselves, and to their children, that they give a damn about the biggest crisis our civilization has ever faced.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is people will come by the tens of thousands, and it will be the largest demonstration yet of human resolve in the face of climate change. Sure, some of it will be exciting \u2013 who doesn&#8217;t like the chance to march and sing and carry a clever sign through the canyons of Manhattan? But this is dead-serious business, a signal moment in the gathering fight of human beings to do something about global warming before it&#8217;s too late to do anything but watch. You&#8217;ll tell your grandchildren, assuming we win. So circle September 20th and 21st on your calendar, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/a-call-to-arms-an-invitation-to-demand-action-on-climate-change-20140521\">then I&#8217;ll explain.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>350.org has a page devoted to the march, <a href=\"http:\/\/act.350.org\/signup\/readytomarch\">HERE<\/a>. Please click through and get busy!<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook Page is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/301805359975258\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The image above is from an earlier march, details <a href=\"http:\/\/climatehoward.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/18\/biggest-climate-rally-ever\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of millions of red blooded Americans, Tea Partiers, were called to Washington DC the other day to overthrow the government. A few hundreds or so showed up. Now, Bill McKibben, of 350.org, is calling Americans to New York City, not to overthrow the government but to talk some sense into it. I&#8217;ll bet more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/21\/a-call-to-arms-about-climate-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Call To Arms about Climate Change<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5021,1],"tags":[276,21,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-55U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28429,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19586\/revisions\/28429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}