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Copenhagen here I come!09/12/2009 Photo by Shell Well, these friendly doctors’ll take me to Copenhagen in a few days, in spite of my critical health. They have to take care of me all the time and I can’t do without all those machinery. I feel like some kind of robot: ‘We’re functioning automatik. And we are dancing mechanik. We are the robots‘ (Kraftwerk) So I can’t join the protests myself, but I will be at the Klimaforum from 13-17 december. See you there? Anyhoo, I was wondering about China. It’s like one of the most polluted countries, though they have great power (in Copenhagen). Doesn’t sound like a pretty good combination… Well, China hasn’t that much emission per citizen as a lot of so called developed countries and historically they are less responsible. What do you think about this issue? See you soon! Love, Gary china, cop15, copenhagen, emissions, klimaforum, power
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Another accident07/12/2009 Still by Kees-jan Husselman ‘Blow, blow, thou winter wind Today is the kick-off in Copenhagen, but I’m not there yet. Yesterday the wind suddenly started blowing as if the whole world would burst out in pieces. Apparently it wasn’t that bad, however one of my branches splitted. A somewhat old, but nice, woman took me to the first-aid. Well, the doctors had to amputate my branch. Anyhoo, now I have a fresh scar with a good story. So I need this artificial respiration again and I get some extra water. My health is pretty critical… I hope there’ll be a solution soon, so that I can go to Copenhagen! Love & peace, Gary copenhagen, greenhouse, hospital, ill Let’s store co2 underground!04/12/2009 photo by treehugger.com I got the greatest idea from the Netherlands today. Let’s just store CO2 underground! “The Dutch government said two weeks ago it had approved the experimental below-ground storage of excess CO2 to curb damaging emissions, dismissing concerns of residents who live on top of the project.” (http://www.physorg.com/) That just gets my branches all itchy: the government (especially the Dutch) is all talk about green citizenship. But when it comes down to it… let’s just put the garbage underground and then the problem is gone! Wow, that’s smart! What in Mother Earth’s name got in to you? The Dutch official (let’s call him Klaas) who came up with that probably got the idea from his advisor, who earns a monthly salary of 100.000 euro. This advisor – 6 years old and (by great coincidence) the son of Klaas – came up with the idea when Klaas’s wife (Mien) ordered the advisor to clean his room. The advisor shoved all his rolling-stock, his impressive car park and his huge castle populated by dozens of small plastic people under his bed. Clean room, problem solved! Mien happy, the advisor happy. And Klaas was the hero of the day at the department. This was a cheap solution! And the garbage is gone! ‘Cause wat you can’t see. BTW: the advisor is not all evil; his car park is mainly electric. To be fair about the above… I made it up. I just want to ventilate my frustration about plans like these. To me it’s like it sounds like a 6 year old came up with that! “I understand all… I see no… Anyhoo, what do you think of this pretty idea? Hasta la vista, Gary Get rid of guilt for once and for all…02/12/2009 Photo by AmazingBrickCreations.com Hola dear friends! All citizens in the north of our globe know that their behavior caused gigantic problems in the other half of the world, no? Those people in the so-called ‘developed’ countries consume like there is no tomorrow! It reminds me of a song of Bad Religion, it may sound somewhat cruel, though it’s just the way it is: ‘I want to conquer the world, Look at those problems in the Southern part of the world caused by climate change, it’s a smack in the face! I feel the pain in my roots… Who do you blame? Do you feel responsible yourself? Love & peace, p.s. I’m glad to have so many awesome friends at Facebook. blame, climate change, climate justice, global north, global south, guilt The most polluted city in the world30/11/2009 Photo by Angelina Tembo A few years ago I was taken to Kabwe (Zambia), it’s one of the most polluted cities in the world. The guy who took me here didn’t tell me anything about that at all. It would have been a definite dealbreaker! No, no, no, it would be all beautiful and pleasant, he said, clean air. Lots of water too. Nothing of that! A lot of inconveniences for me, Gary. But I can live with it. Been there, if you know what I mean. But what was worse (and I would never get used to it!) were all those children suffering from horrid things like lead poisoning. One of these days a little girl came by. She was suffering from amnesia. Later I heard the headmaster of a school saying that the lead poisoning causes a lot of problems in the city, especially for the children. I gotta give my props to all these friendly citizens who have to deal with lead poisoning. I still feel bad that I couldn’t help anyone over there. Do you know something we could do? It was an accident waiting to happen that I get polluted too. Why must the weakest always suffer the most? I don’t see this fella getting dragged around the world!!! Very mad at the moment!!! Gary kabwe, lead poisoning, polluted city, zambia Tomato red27/11/2009 Photo by Anglia24 I’m sure we all can agree that catching sunrays is a pretty pleasant job, but right now I’m as red as a tomato… Sure turning heads on the street! A red plant! Well, my own fault I guess. Last time I was here, it wasn’t half as hot. Hopefully there’ll be clean water soon. The sun keeps burning, so I hope I’ll stay in the shadow most of the days. Apart from that, the people are so kind and they’re trying to help each other at the best of their ability. Has it always been like this here? Incredible how people can operate under this circumstances. Let alone a plant that’s not really sure where it’s from. It’s probably further away from the equator then where I am now… All this travelling around got me thinking. I wonder how much is caused by humans. And how much of it is just, well you know, nature. And another thing: the more people I know, the more I come to like them. But the more I see from the world, the more I get convinced that some extremes aren’t random (or just nature). How’s the weather out there? And what do you think? Gary climate change, human, nature, sun, weather Nostalgic autumn25/11/2009 image from: http://www.leukvoorkids.nl/ Fran Lebowitz once said: ‘Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.’ Well, I didn’t feel alive past days. Anyhoo, props to the pretty nurses and clever doctors at the pacific hospital. Moreover, thanks for your get-well-messages at twitter and facebook! Today I was placed in the park a lot of kilometres away. I’m wondering for how long I’ll stay here this time. Although it rained, it felt like the sun was shining inside me. All those beautiful coloured trees and leaves. Like Camus once said: ‘autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.’ I noticed a lot of children collecting chestnuts. It remembered me of these old days when people collected my leaves and the chestnuts of the neighbour-trees to make these pretty, but freaky dolls, like above. A few years later those same children took one of my branches to use it to throw some nuts with, haha. It was pretty rude, but who cares. Didn’t really suck. At least it was put to good use! What are your nostalgic memories to these autumn days? Let me know! Hasta la vista! Gary autumn, chestnuts, children, memories 
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