350 Islands for Change

Sign www.oxfam.org.nz/feeltheheat climate change petition.

In Auckland, Pacific Islanders wade out into the sea and hang up 350 T-shirts on a giant washing line, signifying that the Pacific Islands are being hung out to dry. Each shirt has the name of a different island printed on it.

The event is part of the 350 International Day of Climate Action, a global call to bring greenhouse gas pollution back down to a level that is safe for survival.

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• 350 Islands for Change
• 350ppm
• Pacific hung out to dry
• giant washing line
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• pacific islands
• climate change
• Auckland
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[carcultured]

This is a very wonderful action.

Thank you to all who participated!

[terraalert]

heart felt action... i love it!

[Fantail2009]

Have you tried showing your video to people in the Pacific who have salt in their drinking water?

[Fantail2009]

Relax echossubmarinetheres nothing in this video that has anything to do with Al Gore. Climate change is happening and there are lots of things that humans can do to lessen the effects. Copenhagen is a good chance to get some of those things going, not a massive global conspiracy to dissolve nation states and take your hard-earned tax dollars.

[Euan851]

Brent, while you lament about the uninformed Green thing from your glass house, Id recommend thinking a little more about shipping millions of tonnes of rubbish thousands of kilometers being either free or helping the environment. In the meantime, Im going to go on supporting Oxfam nice video guys, thanks!

[nzBrentC]

Has got FA to do with Justice - just trying to help out a sinking atoll - I suppose we could do the uninformed Green thing and go back to the middle ages - we could also stop breeding faster than rabbits. However those atolls will still sink - building them up is the only viable option - inert rubbish is the best option, it's free, doesn't degrade and it helps the environment - there are - 2 problems solved :)

[Euan851]

And yes, sea walls. Like the Netherlands and the UK are building to protect themselves. Its not a permanent solution, but its a way for Pacific islanders to keep their homes from being washed away in the medium term. And cyclone-proof buildings like the one you sleep in every night. Someplace to go when the next big storm comes and the bush material houses blow away.

[Euan851]

Nice sense of justice Brent  industrialised countries get rich through polluting the atmosphere, poor people around the world suffer the consequences, and you offer themrubbish?

[nzBrentC]

The best you can do for those atolls is to build them up higher using waste fill from somewhere like Japan - there are a lot of countries looking to get rid of their rubbish.

Sea walls? you mean like the US levy walls that turn the place into a swimming pool?

Cyclone proof buildings? - good luck with designing one of those.

[Fantail2009]

What makes you think Oxfam knows nothing about climate change? They work with poor people all around the worldthe very same people who are dealing with unpredictable seasons, hundred year droughts that are happening every couple years, etc. And providing the basics eg safe water, better food security is exactly what these people need to cope with a changing climate.

[Euan851]

nzBrentC, you think we cant make a difference? What a sad, fatalistic mindset. Of course we can. We can put less pollution in the atmosphere and we can help people protect themselves from climate change through things like cyclone-proof buildings, better sea walls and rainwater harvesting tanks.

[merseymannz]

what a load of crap.

Oxfam should stick to providing the basis and not trying to get policticaly involved in something they know nothing about