Photo by Sylwia Duda
This job of mine involves the ability to nudge …and nudge often. I think I need one of those tools on Facebook where I can poke people!
I’ve just emailed two “Your Story” citizen journalists in Uganda. They belong to the Women of Uganda Network. They helped me make a piece about poverty last year and have a digital recorder I sent them.
I haven’t heard from them so I’ve given them a nudge as I saw this article about Uganda’s melting ice.
Another reason for looking into the problem of melting ice is because I had an email from Rafn Erlendsson in Iceland who is worried about the Snaefells glacier in his home country. As I was looking around for info on this glacier, I found this article on how Iceland are shipping their melting ice water to the middle east rather than letting it flow straight into the ocean. Interesting but probably expensive – have you drank any of this water?
The Ugandan story came out of the recent conference in Copenhagen - covered by my colleague Matt Mcgrath. I was looking around for a young person – maybe a child or teenager – who had a burning desire to be a citizen journalist for us, to cover environmental issues but I haven’t come across anyone yet – if you know someone who might fit the bill, let me know.
Monbiot’s blog is saying that climate change isn’t the right phrase anymore.
In the meantime, I am asking my Ugandan citizen journos to look into doing something on how much ordinary people in Uganda – especially poor people and farmers actually care about this issue. And whether they feel they can do anything about it.
What do you reckon it will take for people to feel a responsibility? I have a confession to make – I don’t recycle anything.
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