Blame Canada!
This is an excerpt from a post by Campus Progress’s Tommaso Boggia.
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 Monckton (he likes to be called Lord, but I don’t care). You can see a video of that action here.
[JR: I posted the first video here -- Lord Monckton meltdown: "I'm not going to shake the hands of Hitler youth."]
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.
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Joe,
You are right to give some room to the youth actions in Copenhague. These young people are truely involved in the global warming mobilization, and we, older people, have to support them.
Have you ever hear of Climate Justice Fast? You have to meet them. These people come from Australia Climate Youth, and other countries. They decided in the Barcelona conference that activism as usual was not enough. So, 7 of them, started a water only fast on november 6, until the end of the Copenhague conference (dec 18). We have to visit their web site and spread the word. These young people show us that a complete mobilisation is possible if we really want to stop global warming. More than 5000 people have been supporting CJF with a one day solidarity fast.