Yes, the clock is ticking, but who is listening?

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According to the Long-Term Climate Risk Index of think tank Germanwatch, the Philippines ranks as the fifth most affected country of extreme weather events from 1994 to 2013, with about 1.13 deaths per 100,000 people, 0.74% in losses per unit GDP. In that same period, the country experienced the most number of extreme weather events, at a total of 328.

Likewise, it was also reported that the Philippines was the worst affected country in 2013 — the very year Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) struck the country. Extreme weather brought about 6.65 deaths per 100,000 inhabits and about 3.82% in losses per unit GDP.

Read the CNN Philippines story here .....

'We can fix this, we can stop this madness" - Yeb Sano

“We can fix this, we can stop this madness,” so said Philippines’ climate negotiator, Yeb Sano.

The tearful negotiator appears in the movie “Climate Change Disruption” speaking at the 2013 Warsaw UN Climate Change conference that followed the most powerful storm this planet had ever seen.

Typhoon Haiyan affected almost 15 million people in the Philippines, including five million children.

The movie is many things, among them powerfully emotional as it points to the dilemmas arising out of earth’s disrupted climate, but more importantly it is encouraging all of us to do something and that something is to join the Sunday, September 21 People’s Climate March.

For those of us in Victoria, the Melbourne March starts at 11:00am at the State Library in Swanston St. and end at the Treasury Gardens. Similar marches can be found in all Australian capital cities.