Erland’s Ranting

Before I share a few more fabulous photos of our recent actions at COP15 in Copenhagen, I want to let you know that I’ve coined a new term. Progressive boganism. That’s what our actions so far at Copenhagen have all been about. Check it out.

Nothing says day out at the footy like an inflatable green and gold boxing kangaroo. This shot was taken at Copenhagen’s iconic ‘little mermaid’ statue yesterday and is targeted at the issue of loopholes that various countries, especially Australia, have been trying to get in to the final text of the Copenhagen agreement. We might here more in the next fews days from journos inside the conference, but you can read a little more about it here in the mean time.

After a quick placard re-arrangement, we snapped a second shot in support of a treaty that will bring global carbon dioxide in the atmosphere down to 350 parts-per-million. The Australian government is currently angling for a 450ppm deal as their ‘ambitious’ position. This is a death sentence for mainly low-lying island nations including many of our Pacific neighbours and would also spell disaster for the Great Barrier Reef and potentially a lot of Australian agriculture. Find out more at 350.org

Right now we’re patching up the ‘Sooty twins’ – our two inflatable roos – to take down to the Aussie bloc in the Global Day of Action on Climate Change march starting at Parliament Square, Copenhagen.

We also found our little actions spreading around the web in a few more places:

• A little mention in der Freitag, a lefty Berlin paper.
• Another video posted by Ove on Climate Shifts

• A photo & mention on a German blog, Wir Klimaretter

More actions to come, so keep on eye on my unfolding set of my COP15 photos here.