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My COP (Day) Out

Me at the start of the protest in Kelvingrove Park, in my Greenpeace T-shirt my Mam bought me Tipping Point They did it. They finally did it. After all our waiting, and campaigning, and civil disobedience; after all the warnings from climate scientists all round the world, after all the floods, and the fires, and the ceaseless agitation of extremity … Our world leaders finally got together and did it. They sold the world. And I was there . Among the hundred thousand horde chanting and dancing; I was there in the city of the COP adding my voice to a mass of maddened activists demanding a change . I was not there for the actual signing of the deal; but then, none of us were invited to that. None of us were invited to the deal that still has us on track for 2.4 degrees of warming (and that’s if leaders keep to their commitments, which, historically, they have never done). This deal is essentially a death sentence for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what the science says, and in fac