Comments on: Keeping climate change in perspective

By: Will Brownsberger

Will Brownsberger — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:45:20 +0000

Click here for a power point version of this talk.

By: petermccullough

petermccullough — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:42:30 +0000

I want to make one point in one sentence, by boiling down your excellent three minute speech into its essence by only sculpting its prose.

Certainly… climate change has the potential to … eclipse all … problems.

By: Will Brownsberger

Will Brownsberger — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:46:42 +0000

Indeed they don’t! But we do have to negotiate with a lot of people to do anything about the science, and to be successful, we’ll need to understand their priorities.

By: FredSmall

FredSmall — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:09:18 +0000

Thank you for lifting up the interconnections between climate justice and other justice movements.

While shrinking our carbon footprint, we’ve got to expand our political footprint, and swiftly.

Changing a light bulb is good. Changing a senator is better.

Rev. Fred Small
First Parish in Cambridge, Unitarian Universalist

By: EllenMass

EllenMass — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:14:05 +0000

Today was a great world climate protection sensation that the world has not seen before- for me- a full day of 350 activities in Boston, Cambridge and evening of world music. I am reminded of our commitment to our natural resources and conservation duties. Will’s Silver Maple forest needs more impetus from the legislator himself, his colleagues and all of you, in order to promote the SECOND Bill701 which calls for the acquisition of the forest for 6 million (a figure which will be re-evaluated), with Belmont, Arlington and Cambridge picking up somem of the land cost. Friends of Alewife Reservation will be asking the City of Cambridge to consider their Community Preservation Act open space money for this purpose. While the fate of the silver maple forest is still being considered from 4 DEP hearings by a Judge, the neighbors surrounding the Forest continue to raise money to take the case to the next step. This has nothing to do with what the political steps taken are and will be, but it shows a determination to protect the area from citizens.

We hope to be able to influence the legislature as our High School Ecology Camp students did this summer with the support of Rep. Brownsberger in the Agriculture and National Resources Committee of the House of Representatives and to support any way possible to pass it through the Sentate We were delighted to learn that the Heareing on 701 passed out of Committee this fall and will be going through the House.

We hope to continue to hear about this proces from Rep. Brownsberger as the Bill gets closer to passage, and what we citizens can do to lend a hand.

Ellen Mass
Friends of Alewife Reservation

Go to http://www.350.org for a wonderful slide show of world events today!!!

By: david.landskov

david.landskov — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:45:18 +0000

Will,
Here’s a how-bad-it-can-get story about the Four Degrees conference this month:

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48791

This is 4 degrees Celsius rise in less than 50 years, possibly a lot less. Physics and chemistry don’t negotiate.

– David

By: BethBirnbaum

BethBirnbaum — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:28:16 +0000

Your “three minutes” are spot on. We all have an issue about which we care more deeply than others. But none exist in a vaccuum. Broadening our perspective is the way to improve our lives, our communities and our world.