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Page has worked at Harvard to mobilize religious people around climate change issues, including helping organize a Climate Convocation at Memorial Church early last month, which featured multi-faith advocacy for environmental causes and key-note speaker William E. McKibben...
...Climate change is no longer a future threat,” McKibben said. “It is a very present crisis breaking over our heads this moment, by far the greatest crisis our species has seen...
...event, which was co-sponsored by Harvard and several statewide religious and environmental organizations, McKibben called upon audience members to participate in International Climate Day on Oct. 24, when communities across the world will publicly demonstrate their support for the “350” movement. The 350 movement aims to influence policy-makers to adopt a global standard of 350 parts per million carbon at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held this December in Copenhagen. This is the level necessary to avoid catastrophic warming according to NASA climate experts, McKibben said...
...political method has failed badly,” said McKibben. “Virtually nothing has been done to grapple with the scale of this problem or to take measures of the kind we need to take...
...McKibben encouraged audience members to partake in one of Boston’s International Climate Day demonstrations, including the 350 Under Water Festival held at the Aquarium T-Stop. It will resemble a similar event in which the president of the Maldives held an underwater cabinet meeting to sign a climate change resolution...