‘The workshops were nice, the trip was nice, it is so good to be here’, says roadie Julie Schack from Denmark. Her big smile tells eventually much more than words can.

A need to be heard
But still she feels she, like all the roadies over R2C, needs to be heard. “How to make the people more aware? It is difficult, but the R2C brings up so many ideas. Naturally we should buy more sustainable products, by lowering its prices for example. But also by putting warnings on non-sustainable products, like there are warnings on cigarette packs. So if a product tells you that because you bought it the polar caps will melt more, a little girl can ask her mother: “Mommy, why did you just kill a polar bear?”’

Change is coming
“In Copenhagen the politicians already have some good ideas, like a tax for driving your car in(to) the centre of the town. And thus the public transport is promoted as well. I am very glad to see that there is goodwill everywhere. A change is coming, I know it.”

> Julie Schack