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SINGAPORE – Air quality might have crept into the unhealthy zone in southern Singapore during some parts of Saturday afternoon (Sept 21), but that did not stop people from turning up at Hong Lim Park for Singapore’s first climate rally.
Clad in red, they held up banners with signs such as “no planet B”, “no beer on a dead planet”, “respect your mother (Earth)” and “I stand for what I stand on”, as they called on the Singapore Government and firms here to do more to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
Ms Lad Komal Bhupendra, 19, one of the rally organisers, said participants were urged to turn up in red to signal the gravity of the climate crisis. Red, she said, indicated an emergency.
And in a demonstration of just how much of an emergency climate change is, the participants staged a “die-in”. One by one they fell, domino-style, laying on the grass in silence as they mourned the potential loss of human lives and biodiversity in a warming world.
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