"Global Warming Activists Rally around US"

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

Despite the encouraging title of the Reuters dispatch, the numbers of
participants suggest that climate change as such does not move people
to action. -- Yoshie

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Global warming activists rally around US
14 Apr 2007 18:11:03 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) - Global warming activists planned to
ski down a Wyoming glacier, hike to the Hollywood sign and fan out
across New York's financial district on Saturday to call for cuts in
greenhouse gas emissions that fuel climate change.

The Step It Up campaign has organized more than 1,400 events in all 50
states, all with the aim of urging the U.S. Congress to cut
heat-trapping carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050.

As a prelude to U.S. Earth Day on April 22, the day of climate action
began on Friday with events including a gathering on a New Orleans
levee by some 500 demonstrators, organizers said online at
http://stepitup2007.org.

The New Orleans group met on the levee in the Holy Cross neighborhood
that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in 2005.
Rebuilding in that area is focusing on sustainable development and
reducing carbon emissions.

In New York City, about 750 people rallied in Battery Park, at the tip
of Manhattan, and planned to spread out in a line across the city's
low-lying financial district.

The so-called Sea of People demonstration, in which participants were
urged to wear blue and bring such props as scuba equipment and beach
balls, was meant to delineate the part of the city that would be
submerged if half of the Greenland Ice Sheet melted, said organizer
Ben Jervey.
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Yoshie