Climate Action Day
24th October--Around the world today—from capitol cities to the melting slopes of Mount Everest, even underwater on dying coral reefs—people held rallies aimed at focusing attention on the number 350 because scientists have insisted in recent years that 350 parts per million is the most carbon dioxide we can safely have in the atmosphere. The current CO2 concentration is 390 parts per million.
These global actions come six weeks before the world’s nations convene in Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Conference to draw up a new climate treaty. 89 countries have already endorsed the 350 target, as well as the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, the world’s foremost climate economist, Sir Nicholas Stern, and Nobel prize-winner Al Gore.
Youth Alliance for Climate (YAC) and Youth Spirit has organised the 350 day of action at the Darwin School of Business (DSB) in Guwahati. The programmes included awareness programme and signature campaign on 24th October. The students of DSB have appealed the concerned global leaders to take up action and combat climate change for the interest of the future generation. There was discussion on the forthcoming COP 15 during the event which is going to be held at Copenhagen later this year. YAC and Youth Spirit have appealed the young people to stand united to combat climate change and to make the campuses climate friendly.
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Top climate scientists and the prestigious, umpteen Nobel Laureate UK Royal Society state that the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration must be returned to 300-350 parts per million (ppm) ASAP for a safe planet for all peoples and all species - for detailed quotations on this matter from top climate scientists and analysts see "300.org - return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm": http://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org---return-atmosphere-co2-to-300-ppm .
65 years ago 6-7 million Indians - including many people from Assam as well as from Bihar, Orissa and Bengal - perished in the man-made Bengali Holocaust, the 1943-1945 Bengal Famine in which the British deliberately starved millions of Indians to death.
TODAY, the World is facing a worsening climate emergency and a worsening climate genocide. Already 16 million people die avoidably each year from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease that is increasingly impacted by man-made climate change.
First World-imposed climate genocide due to unaddressed, man-made climate change is predicted to kill 10 billion non-Europeans this century, this including 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims (a Muslim Holocaust 500 times greater than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust or the “forgotten” WW2 Bengali Holocaust), 2 billion Indians, 1.4 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.6 billion Arabs, 0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis (see "300.org Message to World: stop Climate Genocide by 100% Renewable Energy by 2020, 300 ppm CO2 & SANCTIONS ": http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article19216 .
Here in Melbourne on 350 Day the Yarra Valley Climate Action Group and 300.org walked up and down the centre of the City wearing (back and front) bold signs saying "300 ppm CO2" and handing out clear, 3-sentence pamphlets informing the public over the threat to our Children and the Planet and the URGENT need to return atmospheric CO2 concentration to 300-350 ppm.
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