Why We Must Act Now on Climate

This is an important moment to take personal action against climate change.

The next two years– the 24 months between January 2018 and January 2020– likely represent the last moment we have to pump the brakes on the accelerating feedback loop of global warming.

The way we play the next two years can have a big impact.  Taken en masse, our every day decisions make up that ever accelerating curve of global greenhouse gas emissions.  If we continue to fly, drive, eat, and buy in the same accelerated fashion we’ve been doing since the 2008 global economic downturn, we are almost certainly condemning our kids and grandkids to a climate that is hostile to human civilization (a global temperature increase of 2.5 degrees C by 2100).

What if, for just two years, we all decided we wanted to bend that arc away from the danger zone, by consciously abstaining from the actions we know are to blame?  I like milk products, but I am willing to quit my share of them for two years.  I would like to take my son to Japan someday, but I can hold on that until I can feel more certainty about whether it is possible to buy meaningful carbon offsets for the enormous carbon cost of that airplane journey.

Are there CO2-producing actions you could abstain from until 2020 to help give us a shot at bending that curve?  Why not try.  

This site has no buttons to sign up, and no pledges.  You can figure out what the spirit of this means to you, and pledge on social media if you want to, using the hashtag #2yrCO2.  Let us know how you’re planning to pivot.