Posted on 02/18/2022 8:47:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When I was about 15 years old, I started organizing around climate change, working with friends to organize teach-ins at high schools and middle schools around the region. At 18, I attended the United Nations Climate Conference in Peru in 2014, the meeting that preceded the Paris climate summit, where a landmark global agreement on climate change was signed. If I could go back in time, I would have never attended the conference — it aroused in me an overwhelming feeling of powerlessness and hopelessness that led me away from the climate movement for years. The huge jump in scale alongside the hyper-individual and competitive atmosphere of the conference caused me to lose any sense of individual efficacy or collective power.
There is no doubt that climate change will define our futures, regardless of actions taken in the coming years; action today will affect the degree of harm but not the fact that we have transitioned into a period in which our ecological systems are being irreparably transformed by human activity. Harm which — it is important to note — is caused disproportionately by a global minority: largely wealthy, largely white.
Recent years have seen many young people emerge as leaders of movements for social change, with young women of color taking the lead. The climate movement shows us that there is room to find collective power organizing in our communities. Improving access to civic engagement opportunities will not only strengthen our democracy but help address a growing mental health crisis.
(Excerpt) Read more at brennancenter.org ...
Tell the little darlings that each and every one of them can immediately take action to mitigate this disaster by holding their breath indefinitely.
It would solve several problems....
“Fake News Gaslighting Intentionally Harms Children” (better title)
The nonstop lying about climate change is what’s affecting young people’s mental health.
That and a fake pandemic.
Panic Porn from a Partisan Media Shill and Stooge alert.
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