Save the «man in the cube», who chose to be held within 3 days what will future generations can afford: in addition to Snoop pedestrians on the sidewalk Achrafieh who received volunteer Rami Eid, will bear the last rise in water level, high temperature, scarcity of water and food for the world to know the effects of climate change, in the Association by «Indy ACT» expose the Arab position which impedes the Copenhagen negotiations
Bassam Kantar
Since eight in the morning, he chose activist and playwright Lebanese Rami Eid (24 years), to voluntarily enter into a transparent cube 2X2 square meters, placed on the pavement of Achrafieh in Beirut. Rami knows that the task chosen to implement the Commonwealth of independent activists «Indy ACT» difficult, if not almost impossible.
Rami was the title of «men in the cube», which will live for 3 days, began yesterday morning, and ending the tenth on Sunday morning. Rami testing, during this period, the various impacts of climate change, where Sikabd a bitter struggle with rising temperatures and shortages of food and water, rising sea levels, threatening the sinking of the entire cube where he lives.
And consider «Indy ACT» to this activity that represents the «excessive realism» what will be the future of humanity, if the global warming.
Expect responsible media «Indy ACT» gift Farhat, this activity is to attract the attention of the public and the media because it «a unique and innovative». It adds to «News»: «in the past, many of our activities on climate change, but this issue is still far from the attention of Arab public opinion. To the extent that some story of a man plunge into a cube, fictional, but they already represent the case of symbolic of what could be the future of humanity after years. Our message from Beirut says that we still have a little time remains to avoid becoming the story «The last man in the cube» reality.
Indicate that the selection of Farhat Rami Eid to do the job came after the announcement «Indy ACT» via «Facebook», and set strict conditions for participation, in particular the full commitment of the living conditions inside the cube. And draw the Farhat that provide many of the activists to carry out this role, including girls Abidin their willingness to carry out this task. She adds: «already chosen one of the girls, but declined later, and after Eid Rami expressed its full commitment to, ruled out other candidates. In response to a question: Farhat recognized that the choice of a girl swimming gown to perform the task, he would draw more attention, but not to the issue of climate change. It adds that the ability to survive for a long key, in addition to a sense of culture and environmentalists, and these qualities met in Rami.
It contains the transparent cube, made locally, on a chair and table, television and put them a PC and an Internet connection and an electric fan, also provided food and water. However, this does not mean that all of these tools will remain available for the scope of the cube, when noon spare volunteer guarding the cube for fear of intrusion passing electric current, which led to the breakdown of the fan, and thus is on the Rami looking for a way to adjust it with high temperature in the absence of ventilation. But at night, no one knows!
Rami chose to transcribe notes within three days of the cube through the Internet. Refuses to talk directly to people, but contacts are friends through his cell phone. Rami writes on the special page on the site «twitter» http://twitter.com/Man_In_The_Cube short comments, and interact with those who write to him and ask him how he felt after long hours of sitting in a cube and exposure to sunlight Achrafieh not overshadowed by yesterday, although no cloud the passage of nearly a month early autumn.
And comments by: «I will now read the book« Life of Pi »the author Yan Martel, and I invite you all to read. Later he wrote: «show high insect people to know what’s going on here and why I sit in this cube and I am a fan backlash of their actions, even though I do not speak directly with them».
In addition to «twitter», Rami chose to write lengthy notes on the blog site set up by the «Word Press» http://themaninthecube.wordpress.com. At two in the afternoon Rami wrote in his blog: «It has been 6 hours. All I can say that the weather is hot and humid here too. Cube began sinking, and the water will rise shortly. There is little food and water, and I’m trying to adapt to it ».
When the fifth night, the water has inundated more than half a meter of the cube, and this morning, if all goes well, will begin a new phase Rami within the cube, representing the residents of the land who are exposed to floods resulting from sudden and severe hurricanes, likewise try to save purposes and the rest of the precious food in their homes, but the difference is that Rami will not be able to leave the cubic, as do thousands of refugees Almnakhien, especially in the areas of the Far East, Valmkaab is Earth, but will also be in the event of disaster.
In turn, indicates the Executive Director for «Indy ACT» Wael Hmeidan that this event is part of the path of Mosul campaign «350.org», which will culminate on 24 this month «Global Day of Action against climate change». Organized during this day, thousands of activities, and coordinate «Indy ACT» these activities in our region, to encourage Governments to participate actively in the negotiations, the Copenhagen Summit.
This summit is one of the last opportunities to save the Earth from the effects of climate change. Humaidan just return from a tour of the negotiations that took place in Bangkok last week, he expressed dismay at the position of Saudi Arabia during the negotiations. He points out that the Saudi delegation holed behind the G-77, which calls for shared responsibility, but differentiated responsibilities, between the industrialized and developing countries, in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Humaidan adds: «in Bangkok and in all previous rounds remaining oil trade, the only reason for the enthusiasm of Saudi Arabia, which does not seem interested in what happens to the population of Arab countries in the event of continuing climate change».