Stunned silence

I guess that's the best way of describing the post-Copenhagen feeling. Blogs are rather silent, there's a general whatthefuckjusthappened??!!?? feeling that lingers.

Though I expected nothing amazing from Copenhagen, I'm left rather stunned myself as well. But, I have come to accept that this will happen. The tidal wave is bearing down on us and like so many nightmares where you cannot move when the bogeyman comes at you, we collectively stand and do nothing.

My energy and thinking increasingly over these past years concentrates on how one can live through the next twenty-some years, and how me and mine would be able to live through the next few generations. Learning about backyard farming, for instance. Looking for that place to stay that's out of the firing lines. Developing knowledge and skills that will be useful in a changing society. Researching ways of becoming self-sufficient without drawing too much attention to it.

Like the frog that got boiled, change will come slowly even though the climate is changing faster than one would think. I only hope that humankind will actually survive this, long-term. I won't be there to see how things work out in a few hundred years, but I do hope so. For now, I doubt there is much we can still do to stop the tidal wave. It's coming up the beach already...