Ok so blogging everyday was a little bit ambitious. Day 2 in Ushuaia started with a fairly lengthy planning meeting that then blended into a sudden realisation of a lack of kit and a frantic shopping trip around Ushuaia. Which on reflection was a really great way to see Ushuai from all angles and to get to know Diana from 2041 and the crew. Ushuaia is a pretty weird town. Part frontier town, shanty town and idyllic Bavarian mountain village. Running around getting stationary and a printer left me pretty whacked though and staying up until nearly 1 installing and printing off stuff left little change out of the day and a very tired Joe. It also got in the way of meeting the rest of the team so I really only met a few individuals, all very charming, passionate and with their own story.
Today though was time to get down to business. For me it started with setting up the room (I seem to be roaming tech guy) and a highlight of seeing Professor Senge do his Travolta strut across the room to “Staying Alive”. Sadly this was unexpectedly his last day with us as he’s a little too ill to risk the journey. The middle of the day had us “get present” in the room, dumping our lives and home troubles aside and starting to get our head around the economics and science of climate change. This for me was pretty scary stuff. Peter Senge had an exercise to have us assume the role of countries we are not from and then look at our offer to avert climate change. Even the most promising of scenarios, in most cases bargains and trust offerings resulted in having our planet in jeopardy. Pretty depressing. Then when you work through a scenario that actually has our CO2 content stable at 450 PPM you very quickly see that getting to action now to reduce our own personal contribution by 80% isn’t going to be enough and investing in the clean energy of emerging economies as well to just about do it started to make my brain hurt a bit.
So to end the day with a hike up the glacier was pretty much the smarted idea to end the day.
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