Climate change dwarfs all other challenges facing the human species. The science is irrefutable and daily grows in the severity of its findings. Humankind has the resources and imagination and creativity to rise to this challenge IF we find or create the motivation to act together FAST. The unprecedented nature of this challenge requires us all to raise our game to a new level of co-operation and combined action for the common good.

“Six Billion Reasons” has been created to provide a platform for people all over the world to communicate their mandate for the climate change decision makers to take bold, urgent, co-operative steps to tackle climate breakdown. It is a response to Ed Miliband’s plea for the public to make a much bigger noise about climate change to impel, compel and empower the climate change negotiators and politicians to make the big leaps necessary. (Ed Miliband heads the British department for climate change and energy).

“Six Billion Reasons” gives people a creative way to “stand up for life on earth” – to move the politicians to move mountains. All that people need to do is to make or find a “pictogram”, which is a photo or short video which communicates their mandate, and upload it to the web (via flickr or You-tube), and tag it with Iamareason. Then OneClimate will use their technology to harvest these and present them all on the Six Billion Reasons platform, creating a stunning global chorus that affirms the power of humanity to meet this challenge together.

The pilot website is already up and running: www.sixbillionreasons.org

But this is only the beginning. We intend sixbillionreasons to become an unmissable global presence which will, in an exciting, empowering way, continue to raise international awareness about climate change, and support action on individual, national and inter-national levels. It’s designed to give a “bottom up” approach “top” significance.

It has been created by:
Susannah and Ya’Acov Darling Khan, (School of Movement Medicine) Peter Armstrong and Anuradha Vittachi (One World and One Climate) and their teams.