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.