A quick search on the Internet turned up this archived article from 2001, my first foray in to the head-hurtingly difficult issues and politics of human-caused climate change.
“Setting out in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg, two Australians are travelling the world by bike, skateboard, boat, camel, bus, canoe, train, horse, rickshaw or whatever other environmentally conscious mode of transport they find appropriate to raise consciousness about global warming.
Using locally appropriate and sustainable transport to highlight and combat the process of climate change, Ben Fox and Ben Buckland are travelling from the Netherlands to Australia. ‘We believe that ordinary citizens grasping the implications of what is occurring and changing their lives accordingly, will provide part of the solution to this problem,’ say the two Bens.
The pair aim to increase awareness of the specific consequences of global climate change on real communities in their Australian homeland and in the countries they traverse. They plan to speak to local communities and collect, photograph and conduct interviews wherever they go. In each country, they will take a symbolic pinch of soil from areas that are threatened with flooding as a result of climate change.”
Over the last 12 years, the world has become more connected more communicative and more controlled but the climate continues to change. I now focus on how to live in a fluctuating world, to establish and maintain systems able to adapt and thrive in dynamic environments where resources maybe plentiful, but predictability is scarce. Change is becoming even more certain.
Reference: http://positivenews.org.uk/2001/archive/2653/around-the-world-in-eighty-ways/
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