It is Blog Action Day 2009: Climate change impact

Yes, there is such a day - and not surprisingly, I didn't know about it until Peter, a friend from Uganda had told me that. I admit, I always was a selfish blogger, obsessed with my own blog.

Every year, on 15 October, bloggers of the world unite and post something about one agreed-upon topic. So called Blog Action Day. This year it is climate change impact. Something is going to be held in Copenhagen these days that can or cannot have an immense effect on humanity. I don't know whether it can return all four seasons to Baku, my hometown again, or it can't. After all, I am sick with these hot and dry summers and rainy and moist winters. When I was a child we used to have real winters with snow and real autumns with falling leaves and cooling rains.

Then, sometime in mid-1990s subtropics moved several kilometers up to north in Russian maps we were using at schools. Wow, Baku is now in subtropics - we were amazed checking with old Soviet maps. Yes, it is! But - oh, no!

However, now conversing with Peter - I am a complete layman in that, while he has a profound knowledge about climate change impact in developing world - how it destroys whole communities, brings hunger and famine to once-prosperous villages - I realize the problem that sank me into life-long depression - Baku's moving into subtropics, or rather subtropics' moving into Baku is a childish caprice of the nature in comparison with all those environmental disasters developing world faces.

Yes, my everyday readers can be too tired while reading this post. I myself is so cynical at the moment. I have to write two texts, revise another two and answer several emails from dear friends and indifferent acquaintances. I haven't harvested my corn in FarmVille and they can wither at any moment. I have accidentally left my flash drive in an office where I was a guest and I don't recall what data was in it. I am still struggling with that online application and tomorrow have to pass through some nightmarish bureaucratic procedures at university. 

However, if we don't do anything about preventing this climate change, our children and grandchildren won't have a chance to be bored by all these boring nuances of this boring life.

P.S. Evgeny Morozov would say that I am engaged in slacktivism, but to be honest, I have changed a light bulb in my room to an environment-friendly one a month ago. Pour faire aise a ma conscience.