With things falling apart the way they did at Copenhagen and the Australian governments lack of serious action on climate change, 2009 wasn’t the best of years on the climate change front.
Copenhagen illustrated that our political leaders are clearly not up to the job of ensuring a safe climate and future for humanity.
Over the past few weeks I have come to this conclusion – if things are going to change, then it is up to us to change them. By ‘us’ I mean you, me and ordinary everyday people from all over the planet.
I mean people like Jeanne Versmissen-Adriaans who kindly translated the ‘Solving global warming’ mind map into Dutch so she could spread the word in the Netherlands.
I mean people like my friend George Crisp who hosted ‘Age of Stupid’ movie nights for his friends several nights in a row, blogs regularly about climate change, writes letters to the editor every week and is trying to green doctors surgeries.
Sure, you may be thinking that translating a mind map or showing a documentary on climate change to your friends and family may not seem like much, but how else are we going to create the groundswell of awareness and action that is required to solve this ecological crisis?
I am a firm believer that all these little actions add up and make a difference. The more people have climate change in their faces, the better.
Author George Monbiot stated after things fell apart at Copenhagen:
“So what happens now? That depends on the other non-player at Copenhagen: you. For the past few years good, liberal, compassionate people – the kind who read the Guardian – have shaken their heads and tutted and wondered why someone doesn’t do something. Yet the number taking action has been pathetic. Demonstrations which should have brought millions on to the streets have struggled to mobilise a few thousand. As a result the political cost of the failure at Copenhagen is zero. Where are you.”
Where will you be in 2010? What will you be doing to ensure a safe climate for future generations?
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