Peoples' Climate March

Here we go again! It is the moment when every citizen on Earth is expected to take to the streets and raise a common banner of solidarity in demand for climate justice-The peoples’ climate march. It has indeed been many years of struggles and seemingly endless pressure, but that has not just been enough to break the speed of our continuous fight and there is no stopping to the demand for climate action.  It is however saddening that despite the glaring possibility of losing a whole country like the Marshall Island to becoming a city in the league of the fabled Atlantis due to the rising sea level or even the rising figure of climate change fueled conflicts and human displacements; our leaders are still finding it hard assuming the responsibility roles as expected of them.

As the finalization of this year’s climate negotiations would soon kick off in the beautiful city of Paris, the common people are planning a rather complimentary gathering which am afraid would go beyond the scope of the leaders’ meeting place in Paris as it would bring every member of the human community together across the globe under one big banner of “Action now”. It is the right of the people to make demands of those that have been chosen to represent their interests, and it is quite justified for the demands to be met by the figures in authority as anything other than this template of functionality spells nothing but Injustice. Now the interests have become aligned at least within the scope of building a common frontier against climate change and its relative impacts and that means the option of non-conformity by our leaders is totally out of order and the responsibility of calling them to order and invariably taking action lies in the hands of the common people.

The power in a united stand remains a formidable strategy in the view of making demands for change and it is just the strategy that could help lead the way to a decisive climate action on the part of our leaders. The people have spoken and the demands are just in the best interest of everyone, even inclusive of the coming generation.  So it is a good fight and a dignified stand for those that have chosen to stand for the future and with the people. 

The peoples’ demands are however not out of place as they are just in tune with what the planet needs to help sustain our survival here and the demands are together not entirely expensive if we would consider the overwhelming cost of inaction and non-yielding. But it is rather strange that despite all facts and figures of the cost of inaction, some leaders have become the slack sides of needed bond and thus, resulting in significant setback at arriving at a decisive way forward.

The world is ready to advance beyond the dependence on fossil fuel and there isn’t a better time to completely resolve to adopting renewable energy than now. We are done with polluters and there is no place for such in the next course of our civilization; the time is now to close down the mines of coals and the chimneys that darken our skies. We need to keep the fossil in the ground and look towards utilizing the many alternatives that surround us; in addition every nation must come to the realization that no part of the world would be exempted in the moments of desperation as such as we are obviously tending towards. No matter how rich or poor, every nation has a significant role to play and a decision to make in favoring the much needed action.

The moment is not to point accusing fingers or to paint the usual scenario of doom but help intimidate even the not too ambitious into committing to taking the right action just in time before we cross the threshold  point of no return.

The stand is not just for the experts but an all-inclusive one for all citizens of the Earth. Join the peoples’ Climate march from wherever you are in the world and together we can all save the future from today.

Sincerely yours Earthly™