Asian Voice reached out to Pushpanath Krishnamurthy, a climate campaigner who walked from London to Glasgow for the COP26 in 2021, for his input. Pushpanath took his first long- walk in 2009 from Oxford, the UK to Copenhagen, Denmark for the COP15 and has dedicated three years of his life to development work. He is a British citizen and originally hails from Bangalore, India.
According to Pushpanath, “Fire, drought and flooding are massive and recurring more lethally. The rise in temperature of 1.5 degrees is locked for a century and we are fried.” He also noted, “The darkest paradox of our times is that those who hardly caused the problem are paying most. Sadly, the rise in temperature is one of the causes we are seeing in our own bedroom in the UK now.”
Pushpanath is further calling out leaders for playing the fiddle while the citizens and especially the poorer in the UK suffer and has called upon a citizen uprising and peaceful March on parliament. He further urged, “Find an urgent means to adapt at the same time not allow any further warning from the globe.”
He is all set to undertake walks in India and in Africa, in the month of September and October respectively, with urgent messages to leaders in COP27, Egypt.
