Comments on: Less Than Ten Years… http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/06/01/less-than-ten-years/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sun, 06 May 2012 08:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: R Margolis http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/06/01/less-than-ten-years/#comment-46046 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:40:07 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/06/01/less-than-ten-years/#comment-46046 Certainly best wishes with your speech. If I would offer anything, it would be to articulate where you believe we should end up and how we could get there. I think most of us have heard about the problem and its enormity, hearing that it can be solved (although it will not be easy) may stir your audience. Good luck this week.

]]> By: Nick Engelfried http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/06/01/less-than-ten-years/#comment-46040 Sun, 03 Jun 2007 14:54:25 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/06/01/less-than-ten-years/#comment-46040 You’re right – this looks really bad. We need to get individual cities working on emissions-reduction, as well as our universities. Could we start some kind of nation-wide Adopt-a-Mayor program, to get people involved in making their cities take action? I’m not thinking just make the cities sign onto the Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, though that’s a good start; we also need to make sure the signatory cities actually follow through with their commitment – something that has deffinitely been neglected in some areas. I’m trying to start an Adopt-a-Mayor program in Oregon, though it’s slow going. My website is http://www.localsustainability.blogspot.com. Is there any way we can expand this sort of thing?

]]> By: Anna Rose http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/06/01/less-than-ten-years/#comment-46004 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:48:50 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/06/01/less-than-ten-years/#comment-46004 You what scares me? We are the last generation who are going to be able to do anything to stop climate change getting to these dangerous levels. And by the time we’re in our thirties, we will know if what we are doing now is enough. If the decisions made today were adequate. Clearly, the ones our politicians are making currently aren’t. I think we are reaching a tipping point on public concern but sometimes I don’t know if I’m just making that up to keep hope. I am so terrified by that level of responsibility, but it seriously is up to us..

People say that becoming a parent makes you so scared about the hurt that your child can go through, and you are always scared that something bad will happen to your kid and it’ll be your fault.. in a strange way I think that’s also how I’m starting to feel about our climate/ the next generation. Like if it all keeps going pear-shaped, I will have failed to protect the thing that is most important.

Anyway.. I’m supposed to be writing a speech that I’m delivering next week at a forum with the Dalai Lama in front of 17,000 people and as usual thinking about the enormity of the whole problem makes me all freaked out. And what do I say to these people next week? Are words going to be enough to change this?

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