Saturday, June 16, 2012

We're saved! In an attempt to stop climate chaos, "people will start dancing and waving green materials"

Climate change on agenda in Square | This is Nottingham

ENVIRONMENTALISTS are to hold a climate change awareness event in Old Market Square today.

The Stop Climate Chaos event will feature Latin American music, masks, a samba band and dancing.

The event will begin at 3.30pm, when people will start dancing and waving green materials.

How did ancient societies interpret catastrophic weather events?: Information from Answers.com

Different cultures developed wholly unscientific explanations for dramatic weather events or other natural phenomena-explanations typically rooted in the existing mythology or folklore of its people. For example, the ancient Maya (in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in parts of Central America) believed that earthquakes were the gods' way of thinning out an overcrowded population. Indians in central Mexico are believed to have worshiped the grasshopper-or locust-after swarms destroyed their crops. One Japanese myth maintained that the entire island string rested on the back of a giant catfish who would grow restless and flop around when the gods were displeased, resulting in an earthquake. According to Hawaiian myth, the volcano goddess Pele causes Mount Kilauea to erupt whenever she has a temper tantrum.

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