If we only have love ... Skielik is jy vry

The COP17 CHALLENGE…

On the 28th of November 2011 leaders, activists, artists, politicians and people from around the world will get together in Durban at the next Climate Summit to discuss and negotiate climate issues affecting all of us. One would think every country in the world would already have a target for becoming carbon neutral... unfortunately only a few do.

Past Climate Summits have failed to deliver on the mandate to save the planet and to green the future. But the unexpected progress last year in Cancún, Mexico raised expectations that South Africa could provide the rainbow the world needs.


Can we really afford to deny this crucial human rights issue? Can we even afford to not call to account those willing to wreck the planet for their own selfish agendas? Can we afford not to make our voice heard?  
Can you afford not to...?  

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world - indeed it is the only thing that ever does" -Margaret Meade 

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." -Mohandas Gandhi 

"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." -Anne Frank 

Karin Hougaard ...

If we only have love
With our arms open wide
Then the young and the old
Will stand at our side
If we only have love
Love that's falling like rain
Then the parched desert earth
Will grow green again

There are no foreign lands
If we only have love
We will never bow down
We'll be tall as the pines
Neither heroes nor clowns

"Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal.  The universal aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not just for the dominant few."
-Carlos P. Romulo 

"I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
-Edward Everett 

"All human beings, whatever their cultural or historical background, suffer when they are intimidated, imprisoned or tortured . . . We must, therefore, insist on a global consensus, not only on the need to respect human rights worldwide, but also on the definition of these rights . . . for it is the inherent nature of all human beings to yearn for freedom, equality and dignity, and they have an equal right to achieve that."
-The Dalai Lama 


Freedom to live in a sustainable world... - Philippe Elan

- French artist singing in Afrikaans! Reaching new horizons...

"The world will get the outcome in Durban it is ready for," according to South Africa's savvy lead negotiator, Alf Wills.

Joanne Yawitch, one of South Africa's main negotiators, told the Mail & Guardian that the key is to build relationships before the conference to engage civil society. 

"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace." -Franklin D. Roosevelt  

The Istart2 project is ideally positioned to enhance and incorporate all diverse people, organizations and other participants in a unified goal. South Africa has the expertise and the responsibility to rise to this challenge.

Creating a sustainable world is a deep moral and human rights issue… the most urgent and critical challenge to our humanity. We have the knowledge. Let our hearts not fail us to make a change at COP17. Our collective sustainability depends on it… 


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A new future awaits….