Thursday was a highly enjoyable day as I met with the North Delta Afternoon Rotary Club as the guest speaker.
I love Rotary! These international clubs have such a great program of service to others.
My topic of presentation consisted of the lessons learned in Copenhagen, including an explanation of the new united movement behind climate action. It’s interesting to look back today and realize what really happened at COP 15 in regards to the movement: Social justice groups like Oxfam and environmental groups like Greepeace and WWF became uified as climate change is now recognized to be as much of a social justice movement as ever. Like the President of Kiribati said; “It’s not about polar bears, it’s about people.”
We also talked about why COP 15 failed, of which I’ve isolated into 3 distinct reasons: 1.) Lack of Political Willpower 2.) Corporate Lobbyism 3.) Apathy from citizens
We continued on about the responsibility we have as individuals to engage on issues, whatever they may be.
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