350 Tacoma is building a future that’s just, prosperous, equitable and safe from the effects of climate change.
350 Tacoma works to build a multi-generational, multi-racial, multi-issue movement to create the people power needed to rapidly transform our economy and society for a just, clean, safe world for all.
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- February 26, 2020
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350T Leadership Circle Meeting
February 26, 2020 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
350 Tacoma, 311 Puyallup Ave, Tacoma, WA 98421, USA
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Christiana Figueres—the woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement—calls for civil disobedience to force institutions to respond to the climate crisis.
“It’s time to participate in non-violent political movements wherever possible.”
She endorses Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg, and evokes legendary activists who effected change on the scale required by the climate crisis, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela.
“Civil disobedience is not only a moral choice, it is also the most powerful way of shaping world politics,” she writes, citing scientific studies on the impact of civil disobedience.
“Historically, systemic political shifts have required civil disobedience on a significant scale. Few have occurred without it.”
#ClimateStrike #ClimateEmergency #RiseForClimate #ClimateAction
Former UN Climate Chief Calls For Civil Disobedience
www.forbes.com
The woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement has called in a new book for political engagement on climate change that goes well beyond the voting booth. What was once seen as an alarming threshold has now become business as usual.
This year, scientists are forecasting that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide will likely peak at around 417 ppm, signifying that for every 1 million molecules of gas in the atmosphere, 417 are carbon dioxide. The last time the planet experienced such high levels of the greenhouse gas was more than 3 million years ago, when conditions on Earth were unrecognizable from today and giant camels roamed a mostly ice-free High Arctic.
350 Tacoma is so named because 350 ppm is considered by many scientists to be the upper limit of safe CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
Unless we are able to rapidly turn this situation around and return to below 350 ppm this century, we risk triggering tipping points and irreversible impacts that could send climate breakdown spinning truly beyond our control.
And the only way we will achieve that is to drastically cut fossil fuel emissions. Not a single new pipeline can be built. Not a single new well can be drilled. No new fossil fuel infrastructure can be permitted.
#wedonthavetime #GreenNewDeal #KeepItInTheGround #ShutItDown #ClimateEmergency #climatestrike #NoLNG #waleg Governor Jay Inslee #PowerPastFrackedGas
Uncharted territory: Carbon dioxide expected to peak at levels last seen during Pliocene Epoch
www.nbcnews.com
"We've done in a little more than 50 years what the Earth naturally took 10,000 years to do,” one scientist said. We’re still buzzing about last night’s reading at our space. Amazing turnout and powerful writing! Thanks to Nikita Nelin and Creative Colloquy for organizing such a great event.
In January, through the sponsorship of the Arts Bridging Communities initiative, an unusual pilot workshop was hosted at 350 Tacoma, titled “Transforming Hate – A Perspective Leap: Exploring the Infrastructure of Forgiveness Through Creative Writing.”
Last night, some of the participants of the workshop shared their written work produced and their experience of participating in this workshop, followed by a conversation of how to open this up to the Tacoma community at large.
#tacomaarts #tacomawrites #350tacoma #artsbridgingcommunities #creativecolloquy #climatejustice @ 350 Tacoma