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Centre for Climate Safety

Author: Mik Aidt

Mik is a journalist and blogger. Used to live in Denmark many years. Spent almost four years in Africa. Has visited some 55 countries around the planet. Now settled in Australia with his family. Mik became a sustainability and climate change blogger because he became a father of three beautiful children, and because – with the words of R. K. Pachauri – “We are all citizens of Planet Earth, and there is no other place we can go.” » More about Mik Aidt on http://climatesafety.info/about

Wake-up call for European industry and media

16 April 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, World affairs Comments Off on Wake-up call for European industry and media

Corporate leaders and employees in the world of business and trade, and editors and journalists in the media world: You, not the politicians, hold the key to saving this planet — and your own children — from a climate catastrophe.

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The climate crisis as a business opportunity

16 April 2013 Mik Aidt Petition, World affairs Comments Off on The climate crisis as a business opportunity

33 leading U.S. and multinational companies have joined in the struggle to solve what is currently mankind’s worst headache ever: the carbon emissions and the catastrophic climate change they can possibly cause. Through a coordinated effort by businesses and consumers,

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Climate scepticism paralyses political climate initiatives

15 April 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary Comments Off on Climate scepticism paralyses political climate initiatives

The fact that still in 2013 there are people who loudly and repeatedly say ‘climate change is a scam’ has an impact on our common future which should not be underestimated. It influences public opinion as well as the politicians

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World leaders: ‘No, we will not get our act together’

3 April 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, Petition 2 comments

In this blog-post I explain why — in our efforts to create climate safety — I believe we must focus less on our politicians and more on the public, the popular and the personal. In particular the youth movements and

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Danish university to train climate change graduates

1 April 2013 Mik Aidt Australian matters Comments Off on Danish university to train climate change graduates

Denmark has positioned itself among the first in Europe to offer comprehensive interdisciplinary graduate training in climate change. ‘Climate Change, Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation’ is the name of a new 2-year interdisciplinary MSc programme at Copenhagen University that combines both

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Someone must take the lead

30 March 2013 Mik Aidt Petition, Recommendation Comments Off on Someone must take the lead

[Danish version below] When it comes to covering the climate crisis and global warming in the media, we believe public service broadcasters could take the lead now. This is the very essence of the concept of ‘public service’: to do

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Crowdfunding to cancel fossil fuel subsidies

22 March 2013 Mik Aidt World affairs Comments Off on Crowdfunding to cancel fossil fuel subsidies

This blog-post touches upon three absurdities of our time, and a new tool to work around them: crowdfunding. The three absurdities of March 2013 are: • Governments donate 1.9 trillion dollars annually as public subsidies to the fossil fuel industry,

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Clicktivism: 1 billion ‘likes’ for climate security

19 March 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, Petition Comments Off on Clicktivism: 1 billion ‘likes’ for climate security

– I am creating a global carbon revolution for climate security. Now who wants to join me? “But don’t you realise: Its hopeless.” “It is simply too big.” “You are up against the world’s biggest and richest companies. Too much money

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Planetary …what?

15 March 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary 11 comments

In this post, I try to explain not only why we all need to wake up now, drop what we have in our hands and spend some time and energy on figuring out how each of us can reduce carbon

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I have a dream…

9 March 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary 6 comments

I have a dream that one day humanity will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: that all generations — including those to come — are created equal and have the same right to enjoy life on

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