“You recently attended a climate protest in Dublin. Write a blog for your website based on your experience. In your blog, you should: Explain how you got to Dublin and how you felt on the journey, describe the atmosphere of the event and encourage your readers to do more to help reduce their carbon emissions.”
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My Trip to Dublin Protest
Author: Emily
Date: 4th August 2020
Hey guys, welcome back. In last week’s blog we talked about our opinions on the housing crisis Ireland is facing and now in this week’s blog we will be discussing global warming and what happened at the climate action protest in Dublin.
Last week I took it upon myself to attend a climate action protest in Dublin for the first time to show my support and also to encourage the movement.
So firstly I had to drive four hours to get to Dublin, which was so exhausting but it was definitely worth it. Once I arrived there the atmosphere was incredible, there were thousands of people standing chanting “No more coal, no more oil, keep your carbon in the soil”. It was so empowering and it made me so happy to see so many people care about the environment. The protest was very calm and civil which also eased my nerves as I was afraid violence would break out but it was the complete opposite. During the protest there were people going around with petitions for everyone to sign and others were going around showing people graphs and statistics.
Climate change is a very serious topic and will affect everyone’s lives in the coming years if we don’t stop in our tracks to do something now. Past generations have ignored all the signs of climate change and left us now as a group to fix all their past mistakes. The carbon emissions are slowly increasing and it is a fact that it is causing changes to the climate. Antarctica and the Arctic are getting warmer, the snow is melting, animals are losing their homes and it needs to stop. Like Greta Thunburg once wisely said “we can no longer save the world by playing by the rules,” which is such a powerful quote and in reality it is incredibly true.
The government needs to do more when it comes to our planet and you might think “we are just a small island what can we do?” but you need to get out of that mindset. It has to start somewhere so why not start here now?
Every single one of you individually can take steps to reduce your carbon footprint, such as cycling instead of driving everywhere, take public transport to help support your community and reduce the emissions and reduce energy consumption in your homes.
So now before I end this blog I have created a petition in hopes that all my readers will sign it to help improve the climate problem. We need to make a move one step at a time as a community if we want anything to change and signing this petition can make that happen. The link to sign the petition will be at the bottom of this page.
I really hope you all enjoyed this week’s blog and stay tuned to see what we will be talking about in the following weeks.
Talk soon, Emily