Join walk to address climate change
I'm joining with people from around the community at 10 a.m. today at Dick's Sporting Goods at Woodfield and walking 3.5 miles to Busse Woods in Schaumburg. We'll be Walking to Bring Awareness and if we were doing it all by ourselves it probably wouldn't matter. But we won't be. Today is a Global Day of Action on Climate Change, and there will be thousands of connected events in almost every country around the world. The goal for all of them will be the same: to tell our neighbors, and our leaders, what the latest science makes clear: we can't tackle global warming unless we can get the carbon concentration of the atmosphere down below 350 parts per million.
That sounds complicated, but it really isn't: it just means we need to speed the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. The power of special interests have got us to this point and it won't happen fast enough unless we come together to make some noise for change.
Our event will be great fun, but it will have a serious purpose. Before the day is out, pictures of it and thousands of other actions will be all over the globe and on 350.org. But we want to make sure that people in our city know how they can play a real role in making the future work. Please join us.
Angela Reinhofer
Rolling Meadows