In order to avert inexorable and ever-worsening climate crisis, we need to get moving. That was the message of Saturday’s Moving Planet RI event, jointly hosted by the Sierra Club RI and the YWCA of Northern Rhode Island.
Moving Planet was an event that took place not only in Rhode Island, but around the world, coordinated by 350.org, an international movement named in honor of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration deemed by scientists to be the maximum that the planet can sustain without suffering rapid and drastic repercussions for humans and other species. Each year in September, community groups in all corners of the globe get together in their respective locations to advocate for lessening carbon dioxide concentrations to that target level. Those concentrations are currently at 390 ppm and climbing; reaching the 350 ppm target will be possible only through a focused effort on a global scale.