This morning, events in Egypt and the Kingdom of Tonga helped launch “Moving Planet,” a global day of demonstrations aimed at moving the world beyond fossil-fuels.
Over the next 24 hours, Moving Planet will bring together over 2,000 bicycle rides, marches and rallies in 171 countries. The day of action is being coordinated by 350.org, an international climate change campaign, and came together through emails, social media sites, and blogs.
In Cairo, over 600 young Egyptians wearing blue clothing flowed into the streets to form “Human Nile,” representing the critical threat global warming poses to water security and their future.
Sarah Rifaat of 350.org and the Cairo Cycling Club, who handed out bicycle helmets to revolutionaries in Tahrir Square this spring, said, “In Egypt, we’ve seen the amazing changes that can take place when people work together to move in a new direction. We need the same sort of energy put towards addressing the climate crisis and moving away from fossil fuels.”
Meanwhile, halfway around the world, villagers on the Pacific island of Tonga held a sunrise ceremony at 6:00 AM Saturday morning Tonga time. A local priest blessed the coming day while the village choir sang to welcome the sun over the island.
“This campaign is a symbolic one for us as it shows that the people of Tonga are aware of the harmful effects of climate change and we are willing to do something about it,” said Moving Planet Tonga representative, Polikalepo Kefu.
Photos of events around the world will be displayed on a giant screen outside the United Nations headquarters as part of a massive bike ride and rally in New York City.
“The planet has been stuck for too long with governments doing nothing about the biggest problem we’ve ever faced: the climate crisis,” said Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org. “This is the day when people will get the earth moving, rolling towards the solutions we need.”
Thousands of “concerned” scientists are invisible, why?
Climate Blame was a sick and tragic exaggeration that made fools out of all of us, otherwise we would be seeing the thousands of saintly scientists marching in the streets and warning us of an approaching climate change “crisis” and ACTING like climate change was the comet hit of a disaster they said it was. And consider the fact that they didn’t march in the streets when Obama didn’t even mention “their” crisis in his state of the union address. And these lab coat consultants we obediently called scientists had been warning us of catastrophic consequences for 25 years. This is all good news for REAL planet lovers. And can someone explain how scientists vastly out number protesters, by the thousands?
We former believers are happy for the planet, not disappointed and since we are now the voting majority, we won’t be allowing this insanity of taxing the air to make the weather colder and to lower the seas. We are removing the CO2 mistake entirely and will continue good stewardship anew, without you remaining doomers and without your twisted and sick fear of doom.
Now who’s the real fear mongering necon eh?
It was your turn to be gad girls with your politically correct conformity.
The CO2 mistake was another Bush like false war, only for libs this time, and for religion, journalism, and all of science and civilized humanity itself. And isn’t it ironic that it was scientists who “denied” the dangers of their pesticides, you know, the pesticides that poisoned our planet in the first place, apparently. Billions of children were falsely condemned to a CO2 death knowingly, so let’s get the charges over with sooner than later:
U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001
By Phone: Department of Justice Main Switchboard -202-514-2000
Office of the Attorney General Public Comment Line -202-353-1555