Attended the London Climate Change march yesterday.
At Marble Arch on our way to joining the demonstration we came across a monument to animals killed in the second world war with an inscription something to the effect that they had no choice.
Taking a short cut to Grosvenor Square where the rally was to begin we walked through a Mews. There was a tall leaveless tree with a crow's nest at its top. Everything from it gone, although a crow was calling from a nearby place.
These two images made me think that our children, grandchildren and the whole living natural world doesn't have a choice in deciding how the world deals with climate change.
Niaively, I thought, this being the case all the streets of central London ought to have been thronging with demonstrators even though there was an impressive 20000 at the rally.
My memory of the event returns to the plaintive crying of the crow.
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