John -
Though I spend most of my time these days hanging out with other oldsters at Third Act, 350 is always close to my heart — I remember its thrilling early days as we tried to build out the first global grassroots climate campaign, and I've watched with great pride as it continues to do crucial work.
In fact — and this is why I'm hoping you'll be supporting it financially — the work 350 has been doing around the world this past year is the perfect setup for what we must be doing in this country in the tough Trump years ahead.
That's because — in Africa, in the Amazon, in Canada and elsewhere — 350 has been pushing hard for development and expansion of renewable power. At just the right moment. It's true that Big Oil has the presidency of its dreams — but it's also true that right now, around the world, we're installing a gigawatt of solar power (a nuclear power plant's worth) every 18 hours. And it's making a huge difference: California has so many solar panels and batteries that it will use a quarter less natural gas to make electricity this year than last; Pakistani farmers have put up so many solar panels on their irrigation pumps this year that diesel sales have dropped thirty percent. And 350 is just getting started.
Can you chip in $3.50 to support 350 and our climate movement in 2025?
If we can build widespread support for renewable energy in the U.S. over the next year — if we can really convince people that the time for sun and wind is right now, that it's the cheapest alternative, and that it's only the manipulation of the fossil fuel industry that's keeping it from exploding even more — then we have a fighting chance in the years ahead. I'm committed to working with colleagues across the movement to make that happen.
But 350 has a distinctive role to play here, as the only real place where the whole world collaborates on this issue. Hence it can bring the lessons learned abroad home to us. We picked the name 350 in part because we wanted to work around the world, and because we figured Arabic numerals would translate better than English phrases. And from the start — from our first day of action in 2009 with 5,200 demonstrations in 181 countries — that international nature has been 350's strength. We're standing in solidarity with others — and crucially they're standing in solidarity with Americans, ready to provide much of what we need to get the job done.
So support this work if you can with a $3.50 donation today.
2024, the scientists told us a few weeks ago, will definitely be the hottest year in human history, breaking the record set a year ago.1 Climate change is the biggest thing we've ever done — the only thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to fight it!
In solidarity,
Bill McKibben
Co-founder of 350.org
1 - The Guardian
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