Climate Justice?

More than 50,000 people came together to demand action on climate change today at The Wave, the biggest ever UK climate change March. The Wave and called for the Government to take much more urgent and effective action.

Well went to the London demonstration ‘The Wave’ and I suppose that sounds like the name for a ride at one of those adventure theme parks. The organisers are claiming 50,000 and the police as usual are saying half as many, funny how the police always do this and when you consider that the organisers included church goers, inclined to make you wonder whose exaggerating?

The church was well represented as I lost count of the number of dog collars, so many reminding me of the Vicar of Dibley and its wonderful lead actress, Dawn French. But it was a wide diverse mixture that came out to protest ahead of the Copenhagen climate Conference next week.

Strange to think of vicars, priests and clergymen; that’s men of the cloth, and now all 'Domestic Extremists'.

Had an interesting conversation with one lady who came up to me and said that we all had better change our ways! That we all as consumers, were doing loads of damage to the environment, she was saying something similar to what was on many placards’ that people were carrying; ‘Our Climate is in Our Hands’. My line of argument with the lady was that at this moment of time, the fate of the planet is very much out of our hands. That we cannot expect any effective action to address climate change on a world level because capitalism based on and controlled by profit making, supported by world governments who have if nothing else demonstrated with their support of the world banking system, that they will put profits and, the continuation of that system before anything else. That’s why climate change is very much out of our hands. Global warming and climate change is taking place under the system of capitalism and most scientists in effect say that it’s this very system of organisation for profit that’s harming the planet.