‘PROTECT OUR PLANET 24/7’ Day
Today is ‘PROTECT OUR PLANET 24/7’ Day
the twenty-fourth day of the seventh month, 24th July 2024
24 -7- 24
This new World Day marks the start of a declared campaign called ’One Year to Save Nature’. It is a year between the two ‘Protect our planet 24/7 ‘ World Days of 24th July 2024 and 24th July 2025. In this year we hope to kick start realisation and effective action at individual, local, national and world level on restoring vital habitats and starting to reverse climate change due to increased level of CO2 in the atmosphere.
In this year we need to all learn about how we have reached this crisis point and how practically we are going to solve it in time. To do so we must provide a mandate to our world leaders to act effectively in much the same way that we did with the Covid 19 vaccine. So many of us across the world endured great restriction on our lives in order to allow the vaccine to have a curative effect, saving many lives. To save many lives and keep our planet liveable for us as human beings and for the other life forms that we have come to know and love on this incredible and amazing providing planet of ours we need to know how we can reverse damaging climate change.
Plants are the natural way to regulate the CO2 level in the atmosphere and so we need to utilise their free action to restore balance in our climate. This over long term will be to restore forests of trees, mangroves, sea grass and kelps and protect natural habitats across the Earth.
In the short term however, we need to use the one plant that can deliver CO2 reduction in time and safely. The one plant that we can provide extra growing area without affecting growing area for food production. Duckweed which grows on the surface of polluted, still. non-salty water is the free means to do this. We simply must grow this plant across the globe in such a quantity for it to mop up the excess CO2 we are delivering into the atmosphere from our fossil fuel usage as we come to terms with having to reduce that fossil fuel dependence.
It is because we can’t see the CO2 that we have a problem, so seeing the duckweed grow and understanding that it is taking up that CO2, is demonstrably revealing. We will all buy into the cure by understanding it. Since duckweed can be grown by us individually and shown to the public in a way that can be done in small scale at home, means we can have confidence in it and put pressure on our governments and leaders to provide the industrial means to do the same process on behalf of us all in each nation across the globe.
If we can sequester carbon from the air equivalent to our own breath simply in our own homes, then we need our industrial capability across the world to do the same on behalf of us all to counter the CO2 we release into the air by our industrialised and commercial global existence. Understanding how it works and being able to do it small scale ourselves means that public pressure can be brought to bear on leaders who at present are reluctant to act. If we can do this curative process small scale at home, they then must do it large scale on behalf of all of us, as we take action to restore the natural balance of CO2 back into the atmosphere again. We are intelligent social beings, so it falls within our normal capabilities to do this.
To provide a mandate, or ‘visual vote’ to act on curing the climate crisis, we are suggesting the highly visible simple action of converting your local traffic light into a flashing message beacon, calling for effective action as understood and described. A coloured ribbon tied to your local traffic light or pelican crossing light ‘transforms it into the message:
A visible demand and mandate for effective action on climate and habitat destruction.
Together, as one, ignoring all our differences. All calling for action individually and collectively as human beings for effective immediate action. A visual mandate for our leaders to act.