350: We Need to Go Farther Quicker Than Anybody Thought.
If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
-An alleged1 Ancient Chinese Proverb cited by Al Gore in his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 2007.
We need to go far, quickly.
-Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 2007.
We need to go farther, quicker than anybody thought.
-The guy by the door 2009 in response to 350.
A day of action, which will last for three days, begins tomorrow. Here in Cambridge, MIT students will gather in the Killian Court2 with laptops form the 350 symbol. 12:00 Noon – 12:20 PM.
1I don’t know Al’s source for this Ancient Chinese Proverb. I will pose the question to Harvard’s own Di Yin Lu. If she tells me there is such an ACP, I’ll believe her. I am already indebted to her for making me aware of the Public Knowledge Project. I try to follow the Enclosure Movement on the Internet and responses to it, but I did not hear of PKP from the Berkman Center.
2Killian Court is in the shadow of the Great Dome on the River side of the Infinite Corridor.
- previous:
- Ben Affleck in “The Town”
- next:
- 350 O weekend.
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October 25, 2009 @ 6:37 pm
In his speech, Gore claims that it’s an African proverb, not a Chinese one.