So maybe you live under a rock and don’t know much about this Global Warming thing or maybe you’re so transfixed by politicians hypnotising you with threats of terrorism to think about the real far bigger threat to us all.

OK, here’s the short version.

Antarctica is melting. In the South Pole, polar bears are drowning as they can’t swim the distances now that ice is melting at an unprecedented rate. We can expect more Katrinas and Australia will be a vast desert (that means no food) except for lower Victoria and Tasmania, Shanghai will be under water and much of Beijing and billions of environmental refugees around the world in the next 50 years. How do I know? We have already had two islands of people have to leave their countries due to rising sea levels… and we just live on larger, higher landmasses. Like the polar bears, our turn is coming too. Go watch the indisputable evident in the film An Inconvenient Truth and decide for yourself.

And why should you care?

If you have children under 10 they will live their adult years in this brave new world – and they’d better be very brave to manage 45 degree days as normal, very little food due to drought and increased salinity or in other areas prone to extreme weather like Katrina as well as the social chaos of a world with billions of environmental refugees coming to ‘their place’.

If you intend having children, they will live in this world in the next 30-50 years.

If you have fought for the nature in this world, you don’t want that fight to have been for nothing just so lights can burn 24-7 in Las Vegas and people can drive gaz guzzlers to drop their children at school in peak hour traffic.

If you can’t care about the earth or nature, perhaps you care about your name, which may never be passed on because many of us will struggle to survive, those names will dwindle and die out, we will have no heritage to pass on.

But if, just if, you have enough caring to at least stand up and be counted, to meet and discuss the issues with those who would welcome your interest and anyone choosing not to keep their head in the sand, then here’s an event worth walking in… yes walking… that lost art done with leg muscles that costs nothing and adds nothing to greenhouse gases (OK, maybe if you fart a lot 🙂

Consider the walk against global warming.

Here’s the details.
WALK AGAINST WARMING International Day of Action on Climate Change Saturday, Nov 4th 2006 Melbourne – 1pm Town Hall (walk to Birrarung Marr) Put this in your diary and go to the website below and pledge to walk!

http://www.donnawilliams.net/