Numb
Posted on 18. Dec, 2009 by annac in United Kingdom
Numb
That’s the only word I have to describe how I feel at the minute.
Numb, that today on what is (or should be…) the last day in Copenhagen we are nowhere near where we need to be to secure us a future on our planet.
Not frustrated, not angry, not sad or depressed.
Simply numb.
We just had Obama deliver his speech to the UN.
It changed nothing.
Obama made a nice speech as always, he said the time for talking was over and that it is time to act. But he didn’t offer us anything that would start the action.
We have seen some developments in the last couple of days. The USA have come out with numbers on finance in line with what Gordon Brown said weeks ago. China has made some positive moves on transparency and we have resolved to continue working in two sections thus keeping the Kyoto Protocol.
But on the very basics of what we are doing here. On stopping runaway climate change. We have not done enough.
This whole UNFCCC process makes it seem so complicated.
It’s not.
We need to change the way we live and we need to do it now.
If the politics are what is stopping us doing this then it’s time to change the politics.
But as we watch leader after leader troop across the stage and make statements it’s hard to imagine this change, hard to imagine another way.
And that’s why I’m numb.
Numb because this process has overwhelmed me.
Numb because I have put so much of myself into this process I don’t feel like me anymore.
Numb because the change we need to see seems so far away right now.
Numb because I don’t know what more I can do to change this.
But maybe today numb is better.
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