In this Starr Forum, speaker Bill McKibben will be calling on MIT students to join the Global Campaign to Save the Planet. Abstract: Science has given us, in the last 18 months, a real bottom line for the planet: a CO2 concentration above which, as NASA's Jim Hansen has put it, we can't maintain the "planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life is adapted." We need a movement to get that scientific truth across to as many folks as possible. McKibben will describe the huge global campaign he's building, which will peak this fall—and which could use some of the clever help for which MIT students are famous. McKibben is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College, an environmentalist, educator, and prolific writer on related topics. In summer 2006, he led the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history.

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