Drawing the line on greenhouse gases: the global-local 350 movement
Oct 13th, 2009 | By The Green Scene | Mountain Xpress | Read more in: EnvironmentUNC-Asheville senior Ellie Johnston wonders what her world will be like in the year 2050. That’s the target date currently bandied about by world leaders for halving greenhouse-gas emissions. By that time, most of those world leaders will be, well, dead and gone. Johnston, on the other hand, will be a spry 63, she calculates. "Hopefully, I’ll be alive and well, but these [emission targets] are about future generations — my adulthood and the children who come after me," she says. Visual aids: Local 350.org folks plan to stage a human design like this one to urge world leaders to…
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