A weekend of demonstration and thought provoking discourse was finished off with a delicious meal with my danish hosts.
 

Saturdays demo was amazing and with over 100,000 peaceful demonstrators, it was also something really special. Real shame that the worlds media have chosen to focus on the false imprisonment of a number of demonstrators as the Danish police (who have been really good otherwise) let the hype surrounding the demo get the better of them. They recently introduced some controversial new "preventative" laws enabling them to detain people they believe might cause problems. Well after a number of hours sat in the street in almost sub zero temperatures it appears that a handful of people felt the humiliating and hyperthermia inducing effect of those powers. On the plus side, it gave the daily mail something to write about.

In other news I was inspired by a speech from a green party politician from Germany. "We have the answers to renewable energy, we have the answers to maintaining biodiversity, we have the answers to sustainable agriculture and food production" she said "we just need the political will to implement them" ..... well said and to coin a phrase, it's simple not easy!

I was most inspired today by a very angry young man from nothern Denmark who was incredibly frustrated by the whole agenda. I was sharing with him my frustrations that the issue it's just so big, so complex that it was almost too difficult to solve and that what could I, a little Englishman in a big ocean do about it? "Ah" he replied "but you are not alone, there are many of us" and he has a point.

Together we can do something, a united action against those powers that cause inequality, that cause injustice, that plunder the limited resources of our planet, that contribute to climate change and lead to conflict.

Or we could simply carry on as we are.