The beginners guide to a climate march
Why and how you too should “Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice on September 8th”. This is a guide to help you take part in a local event, host your own or by sharing the stories of how together we must rise above. It’s never to been this fun, simple and crucial to fight for humanity’s greatest challenge: climate change.
There are multiple ways for people to make a mark about how important climate change is to us. The number of people that think climate change constitute an existential threat to humanity are getting larger and more anxious by the hour.
The climate crisis is not going away by itself. It is the real deal.
Take to the streets and disrupt the Internet
We Don’t Have Time applaud all initiative that increase awareness and provide tools for climate action. We aim to become such a platform for action and speeding up. Because we are currently in aa climate crisis.
It’s never been this easy to join and create your own local event.
But not everyone can “take to the streets” for various reasons.
Don’t despair, We Don’t Have Time.org actually do have time and the features for all of you!
Our Twitter map shows how people tweeting the hashtag #WeDontHaveTime with their location set in their Twitter bio automatically get’s included here. We Don’t Have Time is a frequent tweeter (WeDontHaveTime0).
Together We Rise
Over 800 local climate events are planned by the organisation People’s Climate Movement in over 90 countries according to 350.org.
By using and following the use of the hashtags #RiseforClimate , #PeoplesClimate and that of WeDontHaveTime on Twitter or in other social media your voice will be heard even if you are a not in a physical event or a march with thousands of friends.
People‘s’ Climate Movement is the organisation to watch out September 8th and forever. Follow them on Twitter too.
We’d like to borrow some tips for success from Bill McKibben, the man who is world famous for his actions against climate change and environmental issues on community level up to the global scale. We recently covered him in our blog post “What Can I do about the Climate” .
The below points are the chapters in Bill’s 2007 handbook ‘Fight Global Warming Now- The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community” (Holt)’:
(Set it up — the easiest thing ever as mentioned before)
1. Make it Credible
2. Make it Snappy
3. Make it Collaborative
4. Make it meaningful
5. Make it creative (and Fun!)
6. Make it Wired
7. Make it seductive (to the Media)
(Make it Last)
Or just take action by taking part in any of the + 800 ‘Peoples Climate Movement’ events.
If you want some audio boost there is even a Spotify playlist here (you need a to have a Spotify account).
Final words of motivation
Let’s do something meaningful this weekend. Let’s make September 8th a day to write about in our memoirs one day.
The social norms and values that run our lifestyles almost solely run on the same fossil fuels that we know we need to get rid of — now!
Today a ridiculous amounts of greenhouse gases are burned to no use at all! Weekends are normally when many people go to shop for groceries, clothes and other various stuff or luxury items. Most of us do this without thinking very much about it.
To quote the renowned economist Tim Jackson in his 2010 Ted Global Talk “An economic reality check” (20 minutes 23 seconds extremely well invested minutes):
It’s a story about us, people, being persuaded to spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need to create impressions that won’t last on people we don’t care about. — Tim Jackson (some 6 minutes into his 2010 Ted Talk speech “An economic reality check”)
Tim Jackson is being a brilliant and enlightened exception among economists. Aside from him very of his ‘colleagues’ have realized or been outspoken about that the very foundation of our interconnected economies are natural resources and labour, and that they are being eroded within current economic system. We need other ways to connect and be humans.
Instead of consumption as the dogm, let’s take it to the streets and show the world what really counts. And if you cannot, tweet and share messages in social media using the hashtag #WeDontHaveTime and #RiseforClimate.
Let’s stop slowly killing the ourselves by the force of climate change. Instead salute and cherish it for coming generations by the power of many.
Be a part of the solution — join Peoples Climate Movement and WeDontHaveTime today !
We Don’t Have Time Facts and Development
We Don’t Have Time are currently building the world’s largest social media network for climate action.
Together we can solve the climate crisis. But we are running out of time.
This fall we are developing and testing our technical platform towards a beta phase and securing assets to continue our reach globally.
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