I spent Friday with 90 very enthusiastic RSPB volunteers and staff members talking about climate change and the challenge it poses for all of life on earth (and yes that definitely includes us – but also everything else that shares this planet with us).
One of the great things about working for the RSPB is that we do make a difference – we’ve got a proud tradition of campaigning successfully to make things better for wildlife and thus better for us too. The sheer scale and scope of the impacts of climate change is the biggest challenge many of us will have faced – so can our past successes give us hope that we can tackle it? You bet they can! And not just our past successes either, the Wallasea Island Wild Coast project gives you an idea of the scale of habitat creation that is possible, work that will provide new opportunities for wildlife to adapt to the inevitable changes that are already driving our changing climate.
We couldn’t have hoped to have pulled off Wallasea on our own and our partnership with Crossrail and the support of the Environment Agency has been essential.
And so it is with the bigger picture – the RSPB was a founder member of Stop Climate Chaos and we will be joining The Wave on 5 December 2009 when we will be gathering in London ahead of the Copenhagen UN Climate Summit. We must show mass support for a better low-carbon future. I will be there, will you?