Forget Copenhagen: Real Action is Happening Right Here, Right Now
People all over the world are holding their breath in anticipation and no small amount of anxiety as world leaders meet in Copenhagen to draft a new accord for action against climate change. There’s a lot at stake, and many people fear a politics-as-usual approach that will do little to prevent catastrophic effects.
But Copenhagen isn’t the only place in the world where important action is being taken to stave off global warming – it’s happening everywhere, in every community, with the help of everyday people – people like Change Agent Christopher Swain of Massachusetts.
Swain risks his life to educate and connect people to the realities of climate change that are happening close to home. His project, Swim for a Healthy World, has him struggling in churning, polluted waters to measure the effects of acidity in water.
He’s making a whopping 1,000-mile journey from Boston to Washington, D.C. and stopping to talk to schoolchildren at points along the way. So far, Swain has spoken with over 10,000 kids about what he has seen, sharing photographs he has taken and water quality data that he has accumulated.
Swain’s scientific work – including pH and temperatures of water samples, two key markers for climate change – is uploaded to a global map and made available to scientists around the world.
Learn more about Swain’s mission, and the work of other Change Agents, at Changents.com.
Link Changents.com
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