Went to the Sign On Planet A march to Parliament today. It was a full-on protest-style march—all placards and mass chants ("Come on John, can't you see; We don't have a Planet B"). There must have been a thousand people there. It was quite amazing to be in what was effectively a big climate change mob, hearing the roar for climate action.
Then, among the half dozen speakers at Parliament, a Samoan man got up to talk about what climate change means in the Pacific. He spoke about his family home near the sea and how it won't survive sea level rise, and about how Pacific carbon emissions are 1/300th of one percent of the world's. The whole crowd got very quiet.
You get so used to hearing all the dire facts about what is predicted to happen that it starts to feel normal. To hear someone speak from the heart about what they're personally facing made it fresh all over again.
And on Monday the Copenhagen talks begin.
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