Are you feeling peaky?

Anti-Apathy detects a new epidemic...

"We at Anti-Apathy are worried about a new epidemic that is starting to infiltrate our rich and plentiful lands called CCB (Climate Change Blues).  The symptoms?  Lethargy, anger, denial, sadness, nervous ticks and/or sudden irritability after every TV, newspaper or radio report about climate change and how it could possibly pose the greatest threat ever known to human existence and life itself.

If you or anyone you know is suffering from CCB, we would like to invite you to take part in a very important clinical trial this Saturday (after the Stop Climate Chaos event in Trafalgar Square from 1-3pm).  In order to develop a cure for CCB as quickly as possible, we urge you to get involved.  Remember, the more people that take part, the closer we get to finding a cure."

Comments

[Mairi Dupar]

Dear Anna,
The Stern Report should give we climate campaigners great heart - as it lays out such a categorical case for political action. We do still need to show up in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 4th November to demand this action, though, and not suppose that the government will do enough without pressure. The case for campaigning on Saturday: see www.climatecounts.blogspot.com on strategy, and on the Trafalgar Square line-up.

[Anna Shepard]

Mairi
I agree. Although it is tempting to feel the Stern Report heralds the moment when governments take over from individual action, I do not believe it is as simple as that. I talk about this issue in my Eco-Worrier column in this week's Body&Soul. Let me know what you think.

[Ian Murdey]

I find it interesting that this column is hosted by The Times newspaper. I've stopped buying it at the weekend because it comes wrapped in a plastic bag. Why is this excess packaging necessary?

[Anna Shepard]

I believe that there is a problem with the extra supplements - and adverts - falling out of the weekend paper (and littering the ground) if they are not put in plastic. You're right, though, we should try to think of an alternative. It's a weak defence, but the Times is not the only culprit of this plastic habit.