The last time I wrote something here was on 12 December 2015: “King Sihamoni Calls for Climate Action”. Some days before that, on 2 December we could read that the King of Cambodia was among the many heads of state attending the U N Climate Conference – COP21 – in Paris. It was reported that he “delivered an impassioned plea for a legally binding international climate change treaty” in his six-and-a-half minutes address to the representatives of “195 nations and the world’s civil society.”
After that time, I stopped to write for thinking21.org, mainly because I had moved from Phnom Penh to live on a Pepper Farm in the Cambodian Province of Kep, and the Internet connection at my new place, between some hills in the countryside, was so poor that to read and tp write – especially in response to Comments and Discussions from readers – made me stop to write.
The Internet situation is still not much better, but I received many requests to share my considerations of what I observe happening.
As The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, is scheduled to be held in the city of Glasgow, Scotland/United Kingdom, between 31 October and 12 November 2021, I thought it is a good time to continue again – picking up from COP21 on the way to COP26.
In spite of some present crucial problems considered all over the world – like the Corona Virus Pandemic, and the concerns about the changing relations of the big powers of the USA and China – Climate Change as a result of changes in the environment created by human action is the most important issue for the future of human society, for the next years and decades.
The struggle to contain environment degradation will therefor surely be considered here, including the small steps every person can also do – and not only what society, states, and the world community does (or does not yet).