step it up, again

Remember in April when thousands of people held climate change (or anti-climate change) rallies around the US? Well, it's happening again, under the name Step It Up 2.In April, I wrote a bit about the one down in Juneau, which I didn't actually attend (I think I was snowboarding). There were 15 events in Alaska then, and only two scheduled for the second take, which is next Saturday. They're in Anchorage and Homer, two cities where the local government has been quite active on climate stuff. The guy who brainstormed the whole thing, Bill McKibben, wrote The End of Nature (in 1989), which argues that man-made climate change has caused the end of any true nature because now there's really NO place in the world that's not touched in some way by man. Maybe it's elitist, but that's a pretty strong regret for someone like me who's not living in sinking Tuvalu or depending on sea ice for sustenance. The book was so depressing his friends convinced him to follow it up with something more hopeful, which he called Hope, Human and Wild.