The 10th of the 10th that is, at noon, on Riverton’s ‘viewing platform’ beside the museum.
The ‘Great Unfurling’ of as many umbrellas as we can get, is all about sending a climate change message - if we don’t do something soon, we’re going to see a lot more rough weather (like that we watched recently, destroying our buildings and hammering our farms).
So, grab an umbrella and some friends (make sure they grab theirs too) and join us for the ‘Great Unfurling. Bring your camera. It’ll be a colourful event. Shouldn’t take long either and you’ll be able to chat with others who are concerned about what’s happening to our climate.
Robert Guyton
4 comments:
Ooooh sounds like a fab day out ... do you think it would be somewhat counterintuitive to drive over from Mataura to draw attention to climate change ;)
Not unless your car is coal-powered Meg!
The issue of cars and their emissions is dwarfed now, by the prospect of a world wide hunger to mine coal. That's the issue that needs to be addressed and if it means you have to drive to get there, put your foot down!
be careful not to poke those metal umbrellas into the ground, you might upset the energy waves and cause a tsunami....
and come on Robert, that snow fall wasnt global warming, it was just a bloody big snow fall
There'll be all sorts of things poked into the sand SR, I'm guessing. The Riverton community is a very creative one and doesn't like to let an opportunity to express itself go by.
I've not said the snow came about as a result of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. I do think though, that those gases will result in disruptions to our global climate. I think human activity has already had a profound effect, especially in a localised way. The desertification in some continents, brought about by agricultural practices have had obvious effects on the local climate - no trees = no rain (a tree is a pump etc.) The exposure of landscapes to wind is another example - ambient temperatures have
changed, soil has been lost to the sea etc.
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