Below is a part of a letter by US environmentalist, author, and educator Bill McKibben, slightly adjusted to a non-American audience.

Under McKibben’s initiative, the Step It Up! team is soon starting a new campaign: 350. Whereas Step It Up! was focused on the US, 350 will be a global campaign to push for effective global climate action. For background in German on the reasons why we need to decrease the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from 385 ppm to 350 ppm, please see my earlier contribution here.

“Meanwhile, the science around climate change has continued to darken. (more…)