To the naysayers about global warming and climate change, I say how dare you.
Climate change is no laughing matter. Winters are getting shorter, summers are getting hotter, tidal action is getting choppier, and the air streams are getting colder. If we don’t do anything, we risk losing the planet to everything that we hold precious before losing ourselves.
I don’t know about you, but I like Planet Earth and I’ll try my darnedest to keep it alive.
With this in mind, I’m glad to join thousands of bloggers from around the world–over 2,400 of them in 105 countries at last count–for the third annual Blog Action Day. On October 15, 2009, I agree to write about climate change. If you’re a blogger, regardless as an individual or a corporation, I dare you to join me.
Think about the power of mass collaboration. Think about what would happen if the world’s bloggers–every single one of them, every one of you–wrote about climate change over 24 hours. Think about the mainstream media reaction. Think about your neighbors’ reaction. Think about what it could mean.
Blog Action Day is not about Twitter or Facebook or YouTube or Flickr or other forms of online communication and media. It’s about blogging with a singular and shared call to action. The social networking sites will push it along, as they already are from feeds like @blogactionday and tags like #climate.
BAD’s debut theme was the environment, but I didn’t participate in 2007. When I first learned of the global plea 12 months ago, I blogged about poverty–in the form of sharing videos with you. I later summarized the good deeds we did.
Join me and the world and write about climate change. Whether 10 words or 10 pages, the world’s waiting for your decision. What will it be?
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Very cool concept, Ari. I hope to join in as well on October 15th.
Just one clarification though: we will not lose the planet. We will never lose the planet. Even if we completely destroy our climate, that will just kill us, not the planet
Earth will always be here, and will surely rebound after what we do to it over the course of a mere few thousand years. It’s the human species we should be afraid of losing.
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I like the concept, the only way we can change the way the world behaves is by acting together, it is our childrens future and our grand childrens that we are destorying.
I agree with Dave. Where is the love and respect for children and grandchildren? People need to stop being so selfish and thing about the younger generations. Everyone will not change by themselves, we need a strong leader to make giant leaps for us in this field. Thanks so much for the post.
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I see you are interested in global warming and everything else that comes with it. I would just like to share my disappointment at the outcome of the Copenhagen climate council. The summit was supposed to halt temperature rise by cutting greenhouse gases. But after two weeks of negotiating it ended in a weak political accord that does not force any country to reduce emissions and has no legal standing anyway. As a result the world is “one step closer to a humanitarian crisis”, according to the Royal Society. It looks like it is every man for themselves but if your far away neighbors don’t do anything to halt it, what is the point. Here in Scotland, Scottish Hydro has shown the way forward with supplying clean renewable Scottish power from sources like, hydro damns and wind turbine farms but is it all in vein? It could well be.
Certainly, it creates a buzz especially during earth day about climate change. Plus the movie 2012 is closely related to climate change too. I just hope many bloggers and individuals join this movement before its too late.
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Interesting idea, nowadays blog is a good media to reveal our concern about the social problems and also about the earth. Climate change gives big influence to my country’s condition, now there are flood everywhere, disease, and lack of food because of the rice field destroyed by flood. I support your effort