The Copenhagen Convention was held in 2009.
A local community, Transition Crouch End, held a candlelit vigil
in London, as did many groups throughout the world
in London, as did many groups throughout the world
This poem describes what I felt that night:
I wrote this poem to describe the candlelit vigil as I experienced it locally, and in support of the argument that if we don't do something to slow down pollution, we would be storing up big problems for the future.
Some people pooh-poohed this idea, either from the belief that the argument was overstated, or for commercial reasons.
Since then there have been very severe weather conditions in many parts of the world, including floods, tsunamis, typhoons, hurricanes and severe drought, with icebergs melting and raising the sea levels, and animal habitats changing. The world is heating up.
People in Europe have seen the light, and have done something towards changing their habits - using less fossil fuel, substituting wind farms and solar panel electricity and also reducing gasses from landfill sites by making more effort to recycle paper and plastics.
The argument to do something to protect our world from the effects of pollution and deforestation which is causing climate change is stronger than ever, and America and China are rather belatedly making an agreement to do something about it.
Here's a more detailed article I have written called Climate Change: Controversy Rages on.
