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Where have all the protesters gone?

Wednesday, 17 December 2008

The protest today was very disappointing... Only a few members of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition showed up with banners to confront the first session leaving and the second session entering... I was shocked! Of all the insults to the climate movement this has got to be one of the biggest... I suppose many of the conservation groups were inside asking questions and obtaining details but they knew it was going to be a farce from the '5%' alone... Even the protesters themselves were a stark contrast to people in the session... Young girls outside - some as young as 16! And old men inside... Where has the passion gone?

All was not lost though... I met a few interesting people who told me about what they were doing in terms of climate change action... and on the way back to work I passed a beautiful shop on Lonsdale st (near the corner of exhibition st) called 'Art Life' that gave me lots of ideas about decorating the new house... Especially the old steel gazebo with exquisite pink curtains! I suppose I'll have to find a real second hand gazebo for environmental reasons though :-) I made 2 other detours on the way home... The bike shop - where I was informed that my desire for a cruiser was going to give me legs the size of tree trunks... and Famous Amos - to bring back cookies for everyone at work to lighten the mood... Things have been a little tense of late!

In health news - it's confirmed - I have really seriously low iron... Way below normal! I've never been unhealthy in my life... so something has got to change... My new diet includes daily sustainably fished sardine and hummus sandwiches... (i'm yet to try sardines but they are much much better for the environment than beef and a very good source of iron, as is hummus).

And Ganesh is starting the Microsoft Certified System Engineer course... I'm actually really interested to see what it will be like...

Hmmm... All of a sudden there is sepia tone through our back window... Amazing... Turning into a deep purple hue... Nature really surprises you sometimes!!

Labels: climate change, iron, nature, protest

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