I saw two videos this morning from yesterday, the Youth and Future Generation day, that exemplify the challenges that we face as young people in trying to shape the negotiations. These videos convey the frustrations, hopes, anger, and compassion that young people from the developing world are facing as they see their negotiators and their nations’ mainstream media delay and misinform. If you do one thing today to stay on track with what’s happening in Copenhagen today, watch these videos.
The first one is a follow-up to the action that U.S. youth organized to disrupt climate denier and AIDS-detention-camp advocate Chris Monkton (he likes to be called Lord, but I don’t care). You can see a video of that action here.
The second video is from the Canadian Youth Delegation. Canada is one of the contries with the worst emissions reduction targets, commitments to financing sustainable development, and overall attitude. Check out this courageous young person giving an emotional appeal to her country’s lead negotiator:
Young people from across the world are united in demanding that their respective nations set aside their ego and agree to a fair, ambitious, and binding climate treaty. Unfortunately many nations are still under the tight grip of Big Oil and King Coal and are unwilling to take a stance for their people and against the destructive ways of the past. It is inspiring to know that the Millennial generation is united in this, but saddening to think that by the time we take over it might be too late to save millions of lives of people in the developing world.
you should know that behind L. Monckton retoric there are Nobel Prize winners scientists. You should also know that CO2 Cap and Trade is purely economical and has nothing to do with the climate. You and me are being tricked in Copenhagen. Go to wikipedia and check Greenhouse Gas. Forget all arguments and make your own conclusions. Cheers.
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John, ‘Lord’ Monkton has numerous lies on his resume documented by the researchers at Desmogblog. He added comments to the IPCC, that doesn’t make him a co-author and thus he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize. The people who actually won the prize are climate scientists. If Monkton had any scientific credibility he wouldn’t have argued that AIDS is a ‘gay only disease’ and that all people with AIDS should be locked up in concentration camps. He is a fossil fuel industry shill, and deserves no credibility whatsoever.
Not sure what you mean by checking Wikipedia’s page on Greenhouse Gas. It explains pretty clearly that the accumulation of GHGs from anthropogenic (human caused) sources is warming the atmosphere and that the results would be catastrophic. Even if it didn’t though, I wouldn’t go to wikipedia for an accurate answer, I’d check out the body of peer-reviewed studies that show a consensus in attributing current and future warming predictions to human causes.
Unless you believe that the U.S. staged the moon landing, that cigarette smoke isn’t a threat to human health, and that Sasquatches roam our lands, there is no debate on the climate crisis. The question now is whether we can muster the political will to prevent the deaths of millions of people in least developed countries.
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