the Big Melt - climate justice tour - in Melbourne next monday
Cam Walker
apologies for any double ups on this email. I just spent 3 days touring
with Prakash and Pemba, they are remarkable people. They are talking in
Melbourne next monday - details below
regards
Cam
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the Big Melt - climate justice tour - in Melbourne next monday
Find out about climate change in the 'roof of the world' and what it
means for Australia and Asia.
Hear Pemba Dorje Sherpa, holder of the world record for the fastest
climb of Mount Everest, talk about his experience of global warming in
the Himalayas. He is joined by environmental lawyer and activist Prakash
Sharma, Pro Public Nepal.
Global warming is already having a big impact on Mount Everest and the
Himalayas. Glaciers are melting creating floods and danger for the local
people. But the big melt also means a big dry as these 'water towers' of
Asia lose their capacity to provide water to the giant rivers in the
summer months. Eventually rivers like the Ganges in India and the Yellow
River in China will lose their dry season flow and the billion people in
these river basins will lose their water security.
In the lead up to Copenhagen, the tour will also examine how a global
climate policy can be developed that will prevent the big melt in the
Himalayas and halt global warming.
There will be a public meeting in Melbourne:
6.30 PM – 8.00 PM
Monday, August 17, 2009 - Note Date Correction
Village Roadshow Theatrette
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston St
(Use Entry 3, La Trobe Street)
Pemba and Prakash will be joined by Darrell Wade, Intrepid Foundation
and Damien Lawson, National Climate Justice Coordinator, Friends of the
Earth.
Link to Facebook Event
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105686249620> page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105686249620
For more information on the forums, please check our
http://www.thebigmelt.org/
There are photos and updates from the tour available here:
http://www.foe.org.au/climate-justice/media/news-items/2009/the-big-melt-climate-justice-tour