Yesterday was A Global Day of Climate Action. There were over 4600 events going on all over the world and seeing as I had to find something to occupy myself with (Andrew flew off to South Africa in the morning) I took myself off to Museumplein for some Charleston dancing.
It was a demonstration to encourage countries to sign a treaty that commits themselves to a target of 350 parts per million CO2. I was hoping to learn a little more about this but the speakers were all Dutch so I just enjoyed the dancing. An Aussie girl taught the crowd the Charleston, and I think we were all pretty committed for doing it in the drizzle!
Then there were a bunch of speakers (a little too many, it got c-o-o-o-l-d being kinda wet and standing still) and then we formed the shape of 350 NU (350 now) and danced the Charleston. I was at the top right corner of the 3 but there was a giant Dutch man in front of me, darn those tall Dutchies.
There was a protest march afterwards (police escorts and all) but by then I was too wet and cold to continue in my hippie ways so I went grocery shopping instead, but at least I was doing it in the spirit of things and rode my bike and took my own shopping bags. Yup, I believe in shopping to save the planet.
2 comments:
Well done Cal,
You did a good job at supporting the planet and keeping busy while your man is away.
It looks totally fun!
Yeh, na...can't see you!!!! But looks like you hd fun fun fun!!!
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