Blog Action Day 2009 is All About Climate Change

It’s that time of the year again. Blog Action Day is happening on 15 October 2009. This year, it’s about the ‘big one’: Climate Change. I will take part in this global conversation about the most urgent matter for humanity. Will you?

If you have not heard about Blog Action Day you should go over to this site and read all about it. Essentially they will tell you that;

Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One issue. Thousands of voices

Since this year, the focus is on climate change, you will also read that;

Climate change affects us all and it threatens more than the environment. It threatens to cause famine, flooding, war, and millions of refugees.

Let this video explain to you a bit further:

To me, there is an even more pressing effect of climate change that has been lost in the debate – loss of biodiversity. Clearly, climate change is not only about flooding, famine and the like. And when we talk about biodiversity loss we are not only thinking about the polar bear.

In Kenya for instance, we have seen the Mara River at it’s lowest, and the drought that has brought thousands of cattle into wildlife refuges (only for them to die) and threaten the very existence of our beautiful wildlife. That to me is a pressing issue. Therefore I agree with the organisers of the Blog Action Day when they say that;

Given the urgency of the issue of climate change and the upcoming international climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December, we think the blogosphere has the unique opportunity to mobilize millions of people around expressing support for finding a sustainable solution to the climate crisis.

I will weigh in with a post, or two, about climate change and biodiversity. What will you do?