Pierre’s logs

Currently, an increasing number of local events and actions about global warming are organized by individuals or groups in different parts of the world. The efficiency and effectiveness of these efforts would be maximized only if people act together.

The aim of the non-profit, non-political web platform in the morning of a day ® is:

• to provide activists and event organizers with an opportunity to announce and promote their events and actions about global warming.
• to inform the general public about these events and actions, and give them the opportunity to participate in them
• to connect the event organizers, by informing them about each others' actions

Additionally, to strengthen and promote the idea of collective action, this platform offers a song, called in the morning of a day. Feel free to listen to it, download it, sing it and share it with others, in order to raise global warming awareness.

All the information posted on this platform is organized in detail and shared with all its users.

There are no simple steps worth caring about. We'll only head off disaster by taking steps -- together -- that are massive, societal and thorough. Most of what needs to be done involves political engagement, systems redesign, and cultural change. It can't be done in an afternoon and then forgotten about.
So screw the little things. Here are 10 big, difficult, world-changing concepts we can get behind.

1. ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS
2. STABILIZE THE BOTTOM BILLION
3. CREATE A GLOBALLY TRANSPARENT SOCIETY
4. BE PREPARED, GLOBALLY
5. EMPOWER WOMEN
6. ENABLE A FUTURE FORWARD DIET
7. DOCUMENT ALL LIFE
8. NEGOTIATE AN EFFECTIVE CLIMATE TREATY
9. BUILD BRIGHT GREEN CITIES
10. BUILD NO NEW HIGHWAYS

Does the not-completely-altruistic motivation for these collaborative partnerships lessen the value of any positive outcome? On the contrary -- I believe any motivation is good motivation, and I think we'd be farther along in the conversation on how to fight climate change if more organizations banded together not under the guise of saving the world, but with the honest, boldly-stated intent of saving the world and furthering their own missions at the same time.

Even if the administrations of all the countries of the world manage to come to an agreement, the resulting treaty will still have to be ratified. Here in the United States, that means that 66 Senators will have to vote for it.

And guess what? The Democrats only 59 votes--and that's only if you count the two independents who tend to ally with them. That means that, in order for the United States to ratify the next climate treaty, at least seven Republican Senators will have to be persuaded to vote for it.

The entire world depends on the United States' ability to bury its political hatchets. Unless the objections of those seven prospective Senators and their constituents are overcome, the worst effects of climate change will not be averted.

What does that mean? That we, as a nation, are urgently going to have to learn to talk. And, perhaps more importantly, to listen.