Climate Silence NOW! - Home. An Inconvenient Lawsuit: Teenagers Take Global Warming to the Courts - Katherine Ellison - National. Industry giants say their case is misguided.
But that isn't stopping a group of high school students from using the legal system to make environmental demands. Alec Loorz became a climate activist at age 12 after watching An Inconvenient Truth twice in one evening. (Victoria Loorz) Alec Loorz turns 18 at the end of this month. While finishing high school and playing Ultimate Frisbee on weekends, he's also suing the federal government in U.S. The Ventura, California, teen and four other juvenile plaintiffs want government officials to do more to prevent the risks of climate change -- the dangerous storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, and food-supply disruptions that scientists warn will threaten their generation absent a major turnabout in global energy policy. "I think a lot of young people realize that this is an urgent time, and that we're not going to solve this problem just by riding our bikes more," Loorz said in an interview. Support, Unite, Share, Engage, Inspire, Change.
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All rights Reserved. Web Design: Joyette's Creative Solutions Green Business Mystery? Ever wondered if and what “Green Business exist in the Caribbean? CYEN’s CYCCM Project did the research and guess what? Found there there are. Climate Change. Climate Change Competition for young people » Young people demand action on climate change – UN. 17 August 2009 – The largest ever youth gathering on climate change has kicked off today in the Republic of Korea (ROK) to demand that nations ‘seal the deal’ on a new pact to slash greenhouse gas emissions at a United Nations conference this December in Denmark.
More than 800 young people from over 100 countries have gathered in the city of Daejeon for a week-long meeting to stake their claim on a low-carbon, resource-efficient and environmentally-sustainable future. Nations are expected to wrap up negotiations in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, in just over 100 days on a treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, whose first commitment period ends in 2012.
Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), characterized the week-long Tunza International Children and Youth Conference under way in Daejeon as “a gathering of the generation that will inherit the outcome of the decisions taken in December and beyond.” Young people and climate change: Green Left Weekly. Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 10:00 Sydney Resistance member Aaron Roden presented the following talk at the NSW Socialist Alliance conference on August 8.
The key issue facing young people today, tomorrow's leaders, is climate change. It will be our generation that will decide the long-term balance of life on this planet, and the fate of the human race. The science increasingly shows drastic action is needed within the next few years. As a Fijian, I will be personally affected. This is just one drop in an ocean of countries. Operating under imperialist direction and sometimes outright thievery, these countries have been exploited for the sake of foreign profit — profit for advanced countries such as Australia. If humanity fails to avoid catastrophic climate change, it will be our generation who will have to deal with the ever-worsening effects: the rising oceans; the droughts; loss of arable land; climate refugees; and wars over natural resources.
Australian Youth Climate Coalition. A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change. Young people must lead on climate change. In a five-part series starting today, young authors will write about climate change, indigenous affairs, women, identity and creativity.
"LOSING a future is not like losing a few points on the stock market. " Severn Suzuki said this to a room full of negotiators at the UN Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, when she was only 12 years old. The message was pertinent then, but now, 17 years later, we should post it on every street corner in the country. How many days left do we have to solve climate change, to turn our emissions trajectory around and make the deep cuts in carbon pollution we need to save our planet? No one really knows. Advertisement Last week was busy. After my speech, a high school student came up with tears in her eyes. The Federal Government is conducting a national consultation on a charter of rights. I believe we still have time to solve climate change. But a movement is brewing. The mood at the CANA conference was grim but determined.
This year will be different.