Train Interview with Taxi Driver

On December sixth during the train ride back from COP 15 I sat down next to a man on his way home from work. He told me he was a taxi driver in Copenhagen who lived in Malmo, and also that he came from Pakistan. I asked him if he thought there would be any real progress made over COP 15, if climate change affects his job in any way, and also why he was working in Copenhagen. To the first question he stated that "politics will not change people, but people will change politics. It is the people who will change the way they live and what they do to succumb to the climate change; sadly he said that politics will not change with the climate change issue. Even if COP 15 were to come to an agreement it would still rely on the individual people to partake in changing the way they live for the better. To the second question he said that his actual job as a taxi driver would not ever change, however the car that he drove he wishes would change to an electric car, preferably paid for by the government. His answer to the third question was interesting in that he told me why he moved from Pakistan. He said that because Pakistan had oil, the oil company was ruining the way they lived; the poor were getting poorer, while the rich were getting richer. Along with this he preferred working in Copenhagen because the danish currency was higher than Sweden so it helped him in the long run.