Well friends its official now, all the hopes of Hopenhagen have gone low because nothing fabulous came out of the conference halls of COP15 as many of us expected. 45000 energetic environmentalists and climate campaigners at Copenhagen, millions across the various cities on the globe are all more than frustrated, angry and sad to hear or read or discuss about the Copenhagen accord and for their useless efforts to change the thoughts of the brainless political leaders through their campaigns in the past few months. Leaders have failed to deliver the agreement they promised, the agreement we need to avoid catastrophic climate change that affects everyone, the agreement we need to help those already facing the risks of climate change. Everybody knows that the overnight Copenhagen accord stint was not because the leaders felt that climate change is the biggest problem facing humanity or to emphasize their political will to urgently combat climate change but to just save their face and their own interests. But one thing is crystal clear Copenhagen did not deliver what was necessary. Instead of taking a step forward, they took a couple of them backward.
Now the question arises... What next? Curse the world leaders for not sealing the deal or start our preparations to corner them at least at COP16. Let’s not lose all the hopes, energy and enthusiasm. Let us prove the world that the harder a ball is hit against the ground, the more it bounces. Its time to plan for a climate renaissance. Its time for us to unite all the people who are like minded and are ready to wage a war on climate change, without bothering about treaties and protocols. Its time for us to explain, confuse or convince the people who don’t believe in climate change to join us. Its time for us to reach out to the youth of India and lead a bigger climate revolution across the nation, continent and the globe. Its time for all of us to realize that this time is past urgent and that we have to act now to save those trillions of families who are to suffer. Its time for us to get the civil society better and mobilize them to demand justice of our leaders for the sake of those lives at stake. Its time for us to regroup, reenergize and reemerge as a stronger movement. A movement that despite momentary weariness will persevere for as long as it takes to see justice come.
Yes, its time for us to have satyagrahas and protests all across the world and start our campaigns so that a fair, binding and ambitious deal comes out of COP16.
Well after all this I can’t wait for tomorrow anymore. I am ready to bang my head against the wall till it falls though it is not that easy. I am ready, right now, to be the soldier who doesn’t mind going down fighting to save the future of all his brothers, sisters and future generations …. What about U?
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