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It Could Be Verse
The International Day of Climate Action spearheaded by 350.org has already kicked off, and will involve more than 4,800 events in 171 countries. Find one near you—and then tell Grist about your big time!
Sometimes it can be quite expedient
To act all quiet and obedient.
But now’s the time, across the land:
Get off your butt and take a stand!
On October 24, climate voices ring—from Mongolia to Maine.350.org
Katharine Wroth is a senior editor at Grist.
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Steven Earl Salmony Posted 10:11 am
24 Oct 2009
October 24, 2009,
and say triumphantly,
"This was the day the world finally changed
as it must if humanity is to save the future for the children
from distinctly human-driven, patently unsustainable overproduction, overconsumption and overpopulation activities
which can now be seen overspreading the surface of Earth....
recklessly dissipating its resources, relentlessly degrading its ecology and irresponsibly endangering life as we know it?"
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