Cultural Creatives - The Work
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 Organizing Around Global Warming
State of the World Forum has begun to focus on Global Warming as the greatest threat of our time. The greatest hope we have is that we have a plan – the 10-year plan put forth by Al Gore; and we have the technical and social solutions needed to implement this plan.
As such, we have begun a three-prong approach to organizing the Curltural Creatives around Global Warming. In 2008, we have launched a:
 The combination of these inter-related initiatives will allow for a statement to the world public concerning both the critical nature of the crises confronting the world, exemplified most urgently by global warming, and the extraordinary hope for the future, represented by the emergence of millions of people and organizations worldwide embracing a new value proposition supportive of a positive vision of the future. They are the heart of the new global coalition that must be built.
We have only a few years left before a major calamity will befall us. Most if not all of the social and technical innovations needed to solve our problems are already available. And now, there is a burgeoning population of people around the world who embrace a value system capable of supporting these innovations and designing a better world. We see our work in gathering, organizing and mobilizing this growing population of concerned individuals.
The Facts About Global Warming
 Dr. James Hansen, Chief Scientist for NASA, has stated in Science magazine that "if humanity wishes topreserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm." Dr. Hansen details six irreversible tipping points that we will soon cause to happen if we do not get our carbon emissions back down to 350 ppm very soon. These include massive sea level rises and dramatic increases in extreme weather events.
Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, an Indian scientist who accepted the Nobel Prize on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, puts the matter even more forcefully: "If there's no action before 2012, that's too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment." He said this in December 2007.
Nothing is more urgent than a mass mobilization of people and ideas that can compel our governments and international institutions to confront head on the challenge of global warming and the reformation of politics this implies. It is this challenge to which we all must address ourselves. We must become a potent social and political force at a crucial moment in our history when only a strong and global public demand will suffice to wake our politicians up. What we must know is that after building ourselves up through all the social movements that have shaped our social landscapes since the Second World War, we are now at critical mass. We can make a significant difference. We only need become self aware, come together, organize and mobilize.
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