The Wave

[andygates]

I was in London yesterday at the Wave climate march. Never have I seen so many grimly determined old ladies. There's a reason for this.

The Wave was organised by a huge coalition of charities and pressure groups, and high on the list are Christian Aid, CAFOD and Oxfam. The greenies come down the list, and at the protest, the greenies were down the list compared to this moral cohort, the WI Marching Army. And this is good, and this is as it should be: we're far closer to a humanitarian disaster than we are to an existential one -- especially you and me in the wealthy west.

I was reading the Copenhagen Diagnosis - the science update since the IPCC AR4 - while the throng gathered, and we're basically on the worst-case scenario curves for everything that was discussed back in 2007. This march was a reminder to the powers that be (and the powers that will be: Cameron, these little old ladies are your natural constituency) that a lot of people give a damn. It was ever so friendly, but if the powers that be are gutless at Copenhagen or they welch on their agreements, there's a lot of people who will be really hacked off.

Comments

[flitljm.livejournal.com]

Sorry to miss you there. I thought it was an excellent cross-section age-wise, I was chatting with demonstrators from around 1 year up. Did you meet the 80 year old woman who'd cycled from Bradford?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Nope, I missed all the riders, was being all aloney-maloney. I did like the Satirical Bankers though...