Climate Crisis Symposium

I was the event coordinator for last Saturday Climate Crisis Symposium organised by NUSSU SAVE, Students Against Violation of the Earth. Before that, i did not antipate myself to gain any useful or new insights. Being an environmentally conscious person, i knew that climate crisis was real. I understood how individual effort can eventually help us in this man-made crisis. However, i had somehow getting very bored with this kind of seminar/talk because I personally felt that their purposes were to educate or convince those who were not environmentally conscious. Of course, it was proven that I was wrong.

Let's come back to talk about the sympsium. The attendance on that day were quite disappointing, LT27 which can accommodate about 350 people was only half-filled. I sympathized and understood the disappointment of the organisers, Ting Ting and Wei Tao. They had spent more than 2 months with huge effort preparing for this symposium. For me, i was not even care about the attendance until i finished listened to the insightful "An Inconvenient Truth" talk by Mr Tony Boatman.

Tony has been personally trained by Mr Gore (http://www.algore.com/, in case you wonder who Gore is) and is the only person in South East Asia fully accredited to deliver the presentation and its scientific content. His presentation style was similar to Al Gore's presentation in his An Inconvenient Truth movie and it was really great.

During the presentation, Tony had reminded me a potential catastrophe resulted from global temperature rise which I had long forgotten. The catastrophe would be the melting of Himalayan Glacier, which fed seven of the world’s largest rivers and provided water to 40 percent of the global population, including China and India. It had appeared that people would enjoy the huge outflow of water for the first few years. But could you imagine the situation after the Glacier had completely melted? What would happen to the 2 most populated countries? When this actually happened, it's impossible for us to sit on the sidelines.

Other than that, Mr Tony also mentioned several key environmental issues which the world is facing, as well as the possible solutions. Too bad I would not be able to share them with everybody.

In summary, the aim of this post is to share this small piece of information to everyone. And also to express my disappointment with the symposium's attendance. Otherwise, more people would able to know the urgency of our climate crisis. Of course,this is not the only environmental crisis which we should pay attention to. Let's join our fight against climate change!

Note:

If you wish to learn more about climate change, you may want to attend Green Carnival organised by NUSSU SAVE next week. It is on 7th and 8th September, from 10-4pm, at Central Forum