Climate change activists have their day

[ccharles000]

How many human bodies does it take to configure "350" when you're planning on an aerial photograph and you don't have quite that many people?

About half worked just fine Saturday afternoon on the second-floor roof-garden lawn at the Davis Center. The only thing was, to make it work -- that is, for the three digits to be complete and photographably discernable from the Davis roof -- the participants had to lie down on the grass, or at least sit and straddle their legs -- in the rain.

No matter. The organizers came prepared, passing out trash bags for participants to sit on. And sit they did, for a "350" photo that was uploaded to the Internet to take its place in line to be shown on the big screen in Times Square.

The line was pretty long, though. Hundreds, thousands of 350s were being drawn, outlined, staged and imaginatively contrived all over the world Saturday -- underwater, on mountain peaks, in public parks and on university campuses. It was a global action day orchestrated by 350.org, a group of climate-change activists led by Bill McKibben and a corps of young people connected to Middlebury College. The aim was to imprint 350 on the world's consciousness and build support for a credible global warming treaty, talks for which will be held in Copenhagen in December.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20091025/NEWS02/910250306/Climate-change-activists-have-their-day

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Oh, the corporate media are covering this in exquisite detail!

They're devoting hours upon hours of newstime to this event. Oh, wait...that was the teabaggers...my bad.

[tabatha]

2. Neat pictures here:

http://www.350.org/#