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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

Can we not raise our voices?

1 February 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary Comments Off on Can we not raise our voices?

Yesterday at the World Sustainable Development Summit in Delhi, someone talked about revolution. We are in need of a revolution, he said. But who shall be the rebels? Us who are here in Delhi? Someone referred to Gandhi, saying that

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Bloggers unite: Linking sustainability

31 January 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary One comment

As with most other conferences, attending the World Sustainability Development Summit has meant linking up with a long list of interesting and like-minded people. For instance I shared lunch with, among others, a dedicated sustainability-blogger: Pankaj Arora runs the ‘Linking

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Hello World

29 January 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary One comment

Australia, January 2013. This month in Australia, 250 scientists from around the planet met in Hobart to contribute to the next major report from United Nations’ chief climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Recent heatwaves and raging

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What are we thinking?

3 January 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary Comments Off on What are we thinking?

According to a recent Gallup poll, a significant majority of the Danish population – 68 per cent – lost faith that world leaders will be able to solve the problems of global warming over the next 50 years, and nearly

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All Danes must see this interview

12 December 2012 Mik Aidt Commentary One comment

This was the tv interview which was to become my personal ‘climate wake-up call’. That moment where I realised that the world leaders are not going to solve this CO2-emission and greenhouse-gas problem for us. The interview was with the

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Carbon-awareness needs a ‘Tahrir Square’

7 December 2012 Mik Aidt Commentary Comments Off on Carbon-awareness needs a ‘Tahrir Square’

Can we use the powers of Internet to create a virtual ‘Tahrir Square’ for a carbon-awareness revolution? Can we use our computers and the Internet to create new digital meeting places where we – as the Egyptians did in Tahrir

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