Day 7 - It has been a great honour.
It has been a great honour to join the Climate Justice Fast for this week.
It's been an emotional week too - I haven't laughed nor cried like this in ages.
It has been a great honour to join the Climate Justice Fast for this week.
It's been an emotional week too - I haven't laughed nor cried like this in ages.
I start new work on Tuesday and must eat in order to get a little more energy together, but I'll join you all again on the 17th.
Today the world is turning too quickly: I can hardly believe that we're half way through the COP15 already without any sign of the 'real deal'.
Our leaders' fondness for political theatre makes me think that Obama and co. will likely arrive in a blaze of glory and media hype to 'save the day'.
But exactly whose day will they be saving?
I have not undertaken this fast for any personal benefit, but as with most things there's often something to be learned from trying something new.
I have learned a little about hunger.
It makes me cold, weak, slow and unable to concentrate properly.
I can't sleep well and have had some bad dreams:
I imagine that my family is hungry and that we are walking together through a land with no food.
I accept my own suffering but when I think about my bright little ones I choke with anger and fear.
How must it feel to accompany your family on a hopeless quest,
knowing that you are walking with them to their deaths?
Knowing that you cannot protect them?
I have devoted myself to fighting climate change and climate injustice on every level and this fast has strengthened that rezolve.
