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COP15 failure: 82 months left to avert disaster

Copenhagen summit special

It was the biggest climate summit since Kyoto. The world held its breath as world leaders came together and thousands of protesters descended on the Danish capital in what was hoped to be as defining a moment for mass protest as Seattle in 1999. In reality, it all went wrong. There was no binding deal at the conference and the mass social movement some had hoped for never materialised. Leeds Student was there as the time to save our planet slipped through the fingers of the world’s politicians, and as helpless protesters could only choke back the tear gas.

“What’s for breakfast?”
“Salad and rye bread.”
“Right.”
“They got it from rubbish bins.”
“OK. Maybe I’ll just have some tea then. Is there any milk?”
“Yeah, well... soya milk anyway.”
    The sharp introduction to a communal, freegan, vegan way of living was a little hard to adapt to at first. Things were not going well. Three of us from Leeds Student had travelled down to Copenhagen (by plane) to report on student activists from Leeds and around the world who… Continue reading...