"Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world's bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One issue. Thousands of voices."
Well, this year the issue to be treated is climate change. ¿And why climate change? According to the website of BLOG ACTION DAY:
"Climate change affects us all and it threatens more than the environment. It threatens to cause famine, flooding, war, and millions of refugees. Given the urgency of the issue of climate change and the upcoming international climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December, we think the blogosphere has the unique opportunity to mobilize millions of people around expressing support for finding a sustainable solution to the climate crisis."
So I've commited myself to "take action" by writing a post about climate change, which will appear this 15th of October. I still don't know if this kind of massive media movements have any positive effect at all in changing our attitude towards many major problems of this lonely planet we call Earth. However, living in Colombia, I can tell that major natural disasters are very common here, and I feel that they have increased over time. And climate change affects everything, even admiring and enjoying nature as a SCUBA diver, although there are much more important negative consequences of climate change, like the environmental, economical and human consequences of the artificially induced warming of our planet. So I hope to read lots of good posts, and specially in the SCUBA related websites. Until next time, Thilo.
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