Frequent flyer ‘madness’

14 November, 2013

PiPP Staff

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Frequent flyer ‘madness’

Philippines lead negotiator Yeb Sano has just delivered a chilling speech at the opening session of the UN climate summit in Warsaw. Drawing on the horror of the recent Super Typhoon Haiyan, Mr Sano dares anyone who continues to deny the reality that is climate change to ‘get off your ivory tower and away from the comfort of you armchair’ and ‘go to the islands of the Pacific, the islands of the Caribbean and the islands of the Indian ocean and see the impacts of rising sea levels …’ He rightly reminds us that this is the 19^th gathering under the UNFCCC, and that after 20 years of meetings the process has been called a farce – nothing more than an annual carbon-intensive gathering of useless frequent flyers. His impassioned plea to end the madness and procrastination on climate action is centred on the premise that we must not accept that ‘running away from storms, evacuating our families, suffering the devastation and misery, having to count our dead become[s] a way of life’.

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