Pictures!

Here are som pictures from the weekend! Thank you Turkey!

The end- or the beginning.

Now the Climate gathering is ower and I'm so tierd. I just want to lay down and sleep so I'm not able to write so much right now.But it's been a amazin weekend and I really believe that if we wark hard and toether we can save our planet. I really hope you all will continue this work when you are home in your countries and towns.

Agnes

Last period with track two.

Soon all the delegators will vote for which messages will be sent to COP15. Three ideas will be chosen, one form each track. These message will be present on COP15.

This morning I was at track two. They were working with the last preparations for the presentations for all tracks. They were working in small gorups with different small coutries. They had to write down their idea for a short presentation, make some posters and so on.

This in one project from studens from Germany, Sweden an China.
Theit project is called Green fairs in school. They want students to organize fairs around christmas, valentines day and other holidays. They wants so sell secondhand clothes and goos enviromental stuff old toys people don't use. Then they want to use the money to buy solarpanels and recyclingboxes for schools. They will try to start with this project in their different schools.

I believe this ia a really good idea, you can do it all over the world and you recykling your old stuffs and use the money to have more sustainble energy in their schools. I really hope it will work!

~Agnes

Track three, pass 6.

This morning I went to a lecture for track three. It was a lecture about Climate change, ethics and lifestyle and how these three things affect each other. Peter Erikson was the person who held the lecture, he came from the Nordic genetic resource centre.

There are three basic things about ethics:
1: Affecting others in a way important to them.
2: normative
3: it’s universal.

So, if all your friends like coffee, but hates tea, and you loves tea, it probably won’t matter because you don’t affect them by drinking tea. If you on the other hand love to break other people things and your friends don’t they will probably tell you that it’s not right, because it affects other people.
And by living the way we live, we affect the climate, there is something called carbon footprint. We saw some numbers from Trondheim University, about different countries carbon footprint, which is the amount of greenhouse gases emitted because of our lifestyle.

Malawi: 8 megaton
Sweden: 90 M
Denmark: 80 M
Finland: 95 M
Norway: 70 M
Russia: 1500 M
USA: 8000 M
China: 4000 M
India: 1900 M
Indonesia: 400 M
Those numbers are for the whole country.

But like I wrote before, those numbers are for the things we use, because of the way we live, if you instead look at the total emission from for example Indonesia, their emission number is 3000 M compared to their footprint: 400 M. Why? Indonesia is a big producer of palm oil, countries all over the world uses this oil in food, makeup, soap and a whole lot of other everyday products. As you can see, our use of palm oil all over the world affect Indonesia’s carbon emission.

And what If we don´t reduce our emissions? What if we are too comfortable to change our lifestyle? Who will pay for it? If we don’t do anything coming generations, other species and poorer countries will be the ones paying the price for our stupidity and wasteful lifestyles.

~My

SAVE Tomorrow..

We haven’t done something wrong. It was our old generations fault. But we are all one, so it’s our mission to fix these things.

But start today; because tomorrow it might be too late. We just need to wake up. I know it’s a sweet dream: we have everything in our hands, all the opportunities to live a comfortable life without thinking about “others”. Just looking into a mirror and seeing no one but yourself.
I like “the Beatles”, do you know why? Because they like to live too! They love peace on earth, they love peace with the earth. If you can’t give up your bad manners for the environment, please try to listen to the Beatles. They’ll give you the energy to start from somewhere. Here is a meaningful one:


Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly

Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday

Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday, mm


How many people will read my writing? One? Two? If I’m lucky ten, maybe. But whoever you are, whatever you read in here; this is a call for you, and only you. Realize! Open your eyes! Did I realize? Maybe I’m still in my sweet dream so please somebody, wake me up!

~Nil, Turkey

With track one.

They were divided in eleven different groups. All of the groups had ten minutes to prepare themselves so they could make a presentation of themselves and their thoughts and how their land looked like. They had one minute to talk about themselves for the other countries. There were big rich countries with big emission. There were smaller countries, and all the money they had was the money they got by their oil and fossil-fouls industry. There were countries that were so affected by the Climate Change and needed all the help they could get. The interesting thing was that we could compare all this countries to countries in the world today.

Then they had some time to make alliances. It was very interesting to listen to. Some countries were very capable to compromise with each other, and some of them were not. Then there was time for debate. This was even more interesting because it was so hard for them to compromise. In reality this must be even harder. Now they wanted to compromise, but they really had to think about their countries, in reality some of the countries don’t want to compromise.

I think we all realized how hard it actually is for the politicians to solve this problem. Even if we all want to do something we might not be able to do it, mostly because of economy. As politicians you can’t just sign under a deal, even if you really want to.

I think we all agreed to that one of the biggest problem in the world today, is the money and our economy system. People have the wrong attitude. It will be very hard to change our way of thinking and acting, but we have to try, we cannot fail!

~ Agnes

Tree planting

After the lunch, we ate soup, we went to the cathedral of Lund. Our bishop Antje Jackelén hold a speech about how important it is to work togehter and don't fight with each other. We dependent och each other, no more than ever. Then she help some students, all from diffrent countries, to plant a tree. We have no planted 100trees as a compensation for our friends air journeys. It was a really funnt idea and it was good for the environment.

~ Agnes