Saturday - August 23, 2008
Meanwhile, Down Under
I’ve been busy trying hard to find a job this past week, so I haven’t posted a whole lot. I thought you might enjoy this one. Sure, it’s winter down there, but come on. It’s Australia, where the temps never drop below 130 or something awful like that.
reached Hassans Walls Lookout on Friday on its way to Canberra.
Climate change may be THE hot international issue of the moment but enthusiasm for the cause clearly wanes on a freezing Friday afternoon when the campaign moves to a mountain top where the wind chill factor is below zero.
This was perhaps the predictably disappointing outcome when the GetUp! climate change lobby group organised an enviro torch relay from Hassans Walls Lookout to Queen Elizabeth Park to focus public attention on the issue.
Ironically, global warming would probably have been welcomed by the handful of hardy souls who turned up to lend their support to the campaign on one of the coldest Lithgow days of this or any other year.
The wind and solar powered torch — created by the designers of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Torch — was carried to The Walls by two pedal cyclists.
There it was handed over to the small group of supporters who stuck to their task and ignored the big chill while on their way to Elizabeth Park.
The climate change torch continued its journey around Bathurst on Saturday where it was greeted by a big crowd at a schoolboy Rugby Union carnival at St Stanislaus College oval.
After speeches and several laps of the oval it was handed over to a representative from Mudgee to continue through the Central West.
The torch relay was simultaneously launched from several locations around Australia early last week and is scheduled to finish in Canberra on September 21.
No word on whether Al Gore had been in the neighborhood ahead of time, but it’s likely. God has a sense of humor too.
Posted by Drew458
on 08/23/2008 at 11:40 AM
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