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Join the world: Get your 350 on in Boulder
Two kids show their support for lowering carbon dioxide concentrations below 350 ppm at the Great Barrier Reef | 350.org
People all over the world are getting worked up about the number 350.
Here’s the deal: Scientists are say that atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions must stay below 350 ppm. Or we’re screwed. Now, carbon dioxide concentratoins are around 390. So, climate activists are saying, something’s gotta change.
Hundreds of students at "Tiger Fest" in India call for 350 in order to protect endangered species like the tiger | 350.org
This weekend, people in Boulder will join communities around the world by rallying around a number: 350.
There are more than 4,000 events planned for Saturday across 170 countries — including 300 events in China, 500-plus in Central and South America, and 1,500 across the United States — to call attention to the number, which stands for a concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide in parts per million.
Many scientists believe that the carbon dioxide concentration must stay below 350 ppm in order to keep the most traumatic consequences of global warming at bay. The carbon dioxide concentration hasn’t been that low since the late 1980s. Today, it’s at 387 ppm.
Soldiers pose in the remote Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, eastern Afghanistan | 350.org
“This is the one most important number in the world right now,” said well-known environmental writer Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, the organization behind the rallies. “It’s the one number that applies as absolutely in the Maldives as in Manhattan.”
About a dozen local organizations — including the Sierra Club, Clean Energy Action, Transition Colorado and several students groups from the University of Colorado — have come together to create the Boulder-based event for the 350 International Day of Climate Action.
Read the full story, and find out the details of the Boulder event at DailyCamera.com.
Get information about global 350 events and see more pictures at 350.org.
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