A great contrast to all the fine but empty words from COP15, is Climate Justice Fast. CJF is a hunger strike for the climate. Sara Svensson is one of the three that now has fasted for a thousand hours, which means 42 days. She is not eating anything, just drinking water with a little salt.
Sara is wearing winter clothes inside to avoid wasting energy and because she’s freezing more than usual since her seventeenth day without food. Yet her mind is clear, which may be needed, given that she in the last nine days were interviewed about a hundred times by television, radio and newspapers from all around the world. Read her message here: http://www.climatejusticefast.com/blog/entry/saras-press-conference-speech-8-december/
After three days without food, she lost the normal feeling of hunger. It is apparently possible to more or less get used to not eat, at least if you have great self-discipline. But now Sara starts to approach the critical threshold where it could be too dangerous to continue. When she finally stops she will need weeks to gradually get used to eating normally again.
Sara now gets a lot of extra time by not eating – since she do not have to buy food, cook food, eat food, or in any way deal with food. But she likes the smell of food more than usual and therefore she is cooking food for others now and then…
Today more than 3,000 others are joining the hunger strike, if only for one day. Among the participants are the president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed, former Irish President Mary Robinson and Vandana Shiva.
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