Activists ‘Step Up’ Challenge to Climate Change

February 10, 2007
ZNet

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=12094


Feb. 5 – With public awareness about climate change approaching a tipping point, environmentalists are elevating their push for immediate steps to curb global warming.

On April 14, as part of a new campaign called Step it Up, activists in at least 47 states plan to rally simultaneously at different locations to demand that US carbon emissions be reduced by 80 percent over the next 40 years.

Actions will be held in hundreds of locations, including at landmarks such as the Hollywood sign and the Grand Canyon. Activists in Jacksonville, Florida, plan to hold "ask a scientist" sessions and are trying to partner with hardware stores to pass out compact fluorescent bulbs. Protesters in Evansville, Indiana will march to the headquarters of utility company Vectren, to protest its plans to build a new coal power plant in the region.

According to the campaign's website, there are already 542 actions being planned, and they expect hundreds more.