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.
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They need to stop drinking the Kool-aid.
Hello climate change aficionados, Have you thought yet about the real climate change you are going to experience if you haven’t made Jesus Lord of your life. It’s time to quit majoring in the minors and get on board the Great Commission train where you can really make a difference in people’s lives.
What the hell is this sh!t about? What a bunch of garbage.
Climate change is fake.
Why have you taken a full-time job posting this crap?
How many threads today alone? +5
yeah, i remember a game where we would place overlays of the disasters that would befall us, and yes, every time we would try something, it would fail... unlike the models of today.
The youth have been gaslighted by the media, liberal left, academia, and generally insane for the last 50 years or so…the young are mostly insane now…
Fake nooze is making young people think they are kangaroos trying to copulate with dogs and penguins. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
That these people take themselves seriously is quite damning. Or maybe I should say that it is damnable.
Since the Covid-19 “pandemic” is dying, it’s time to unveil the Left’s new “Climate Police”. Let the shutdowns of freedom, thought, movement and liberty continue.
Tip to those of you in Rio Linda: POLAR BEARS CAN SWIM! LOL
No it is the demented control freaks screeching and demanding to control thought that is harming young minds.
Oh....honey. If you only knew....
No such thing as man-made climate change.
Nailed it.
Boomers are melting my glaciers! Booo hooo hoooo!
The dialogue reads just like old communist crapola from a hundred years ago, when it was primarily driven at labor. A young mind is a terrible thing to waste.
False narrative.
It is the media’s agenda bending to the climate alarmists narrative that is the cause of so much consternation among younger folks.
“is caused disproportionately by a global minority: largely wealthy, largely white.”
The chinese are considered white now?
If we just told them we were doing lots of stuff, maybe they’d feel better.
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