Nick is one of twenty-three Australian Youth Delegates to Copenhagen Climate Negotiations (5-18 Dec, 2009).
This is his collection of stories, videos, photos and links that aim to be informative, funny, relevant and recent.
Dearest Reader
You might have heard of Climate Justice Fast. They are a group of eighty people from fourteen nations who are fasting in the month leading up to COP15 as a non-violent direct action reflecting the importance of acting now on climate change.
This link is the blog from Paul Connor. Paul began fasting in Canberra on November 6, where he will continue fasting on the protest lawn outside Parliament House, until and perhaps beyond the end of the Copenhagen climate summit this December. He is joined in Canberra by Michael, who will also fast for the entire period.
“I am 29, and currently studying Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Melbourne. I have long been uncomfortable with the inequality of our planet, and after studying global justice issues at university and traveling through Asia and Africa found myself becoming more and more passionate about fighting for a better world. I am involved with CJF mainly because of the incredible injustice at the heart of climate change: that those who it effects the most are those who have the least ability to cope with it, and who have done the least to cause it. That is something I cannot be complicit with, and to me, CJF represents doing just about everything I can about it.”
I relate to Paul’s story. Not just because I was a philosophy and psychology student, but because of the genuineness of his passion. He is ready to put everything on the line for a response now to climate change. I find this very inspiring and motivating.
N.
