Comments on: BaliBuzz: Youth Statement to High-Level Plenary in Bali: “This is our last chance” http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:38:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Youth, Church and Climate Change « LWF Youth Blog http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58896 Youth, Church and Climate Change « LWF Youth Blog Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:19:36 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58896 [...] from Australia, Karmila Parakkasi from Indonesia, and Whit Jones from the United States of America. You can read it in full here. “We speak today as part of the global youth climate movement. Half the world’s population [...] [...] from Australia, Karmila Parakkasi from Indonesia, and Whit Jones from the United States of America. You can read it in full here. “We speak today as part of the global youth climate movement. Half the world’s population [...]

]]> By: Benjamin Quinto http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58739 Benjamin Quinto Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:00:05 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58739 I am SO PROUD of you all for what you have managed to do -- come together, deliver a powerful statement, and seriously start to unite the global youth climate movement! This is only the beginning, we know... I am SO PROUD of you all for what you have managed to do — come together, deliver a powerful statement, and seriously start to unite the global youth climate movement! This is only the beginning, we know…

]]> By: Foxlakewomyn http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58617 Foxlakewomyn Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:20:40 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58617 I am proud of you, your commitment and your energy. As a political activist and educator, I look upon the apathy I often see around me with some despair. That makes what you have done and are doing even more powerful. You give me hope, and I thank you for that. There's a South African bushman saying that I think is really appropriate here: "We see you. We praise you. And we thank you." Val Innes, White Rock, BC. I am proud of you, your commitment and your energy. As a political activist and educator, I look upon the apathy I often see around me with some despair. That makes what you have done and are doing even more powerful. You give me hope, and I thank you for that. There’s a South African bushman saying that I think is really appropriate here: “We see you. We praise you. And we thank you.”
Val Innes, White Rock, BC.

]]> By: Zo Tobi http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58475 Zo Tobi Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:44:45 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58475 Moved to tears, back in the US. We're going to have some good work to do together in these times ahead. Thank you for all you've done. Moved to tears, back in the US. We’re going to have some good work to do together in these times ahead. Thank you for all you’ve done.

]]> By: david hill http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58443 david hill Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:39:14 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58443 Other than the fact that the Bali Summit provided nothing other than to agree to agree to further climate talks (and that’s all that it was), it provided absolutely no change in stopping the constantly increasing global pollution and the life-threatening build up of carbon dioxide, the world’s emerging problems (population explosion and its sustainability, famine and food shortage, energy resource depletion and increased energy demands, pandemics, climate change, global pollution and carbon dioxide saturation, dwindling water shortages for life etc, etc, etc), put together are immense. Indeed together, they are a recipe of nightmarish proportions that has never been seen before by humankind. But the greatest threat to human stability is the fact that people in high places do not realize that the time-span for solving these huge global problems has a finite period of time also. The writing is now on the wall I would say for all to see if they will only look and where humanity has to react without delay, but where, reaction to global problems takes decades to solve. Therefore the lead-time that we have now is the only thing that we have in our favour. Leave it for another 20-years and we shall not have the necessary lead-time to do anything about the really 'big' problems. This is what we really have to get over to our leaders, politicians and multinational industrialists, for it will affect them as much as it will affect you and me. Indeed, if they do not change quickly there self-preservation and vested interest thinking, we shall all end up with problems that are just unsolvable due to the time-served requirement to solve them and where time will literally run out on us all. For only by people in high places realizing our dilemmas quickly now will be able to confront them and have enough time to solve them. It is no use therefore in pussy footing around until it is too late. For hesitancy and delay today is the greatest threat to the survival of humankind and where if we do not come to our senses quickly, in fifty-years time, the world will have become very similar to most probably how we can picture in our minds, a world very much like hell itself. Dr David Hill World Innovation Foundation Bern. Switzerland Other than the fact that the Bali Summit provided nothing other than to agree to agree to further climate talks (and that’s all that it was), it provided absolutely no change in stopping the constantly increasing global pollution and the life-threatening build up of carbon dioxide, the world’s emerging problems (population explosion and its sustainability, famine and food shortage, energy resource depletion and increased energy demands, pandemics, climate change, global pollution and carbon dioxide saturation, dwindling water shortages for life etc, etc, etc), put together are immense. Indeed together, they are a recipe of nightmarish proportions that has never been seen before by humankind. But the greatest threat to human stability is the fact that people in high places do not realize that the time-span for solving these huge global problems has a finite period of time also. The writing is now on the wall I would say for all to see if they will only look and where humanity has to react without delay, but where, reaction to global problems takes decades to solve. Therefore the lead-time that we have now is the only thing that we have in our favour. Leave it for another 20-years and we shall not have the necessary lead-time to do anything about the really ‘big’ problems. This is what we really have to get over to our leaders, politicians and multinational industrialists, for it will affect them as much as it will affect you and me. Indeed, if they do not change quickly there self-preservation and vested interest thinking, we shall all end up with problems that are just unsolvable due to the time-served requirement to solve them and where time will literally run out on us all.
For only by people in high places realizing our dilemmas quickly now will be able to confront them and have enough time to solve them. It is no use therefore in pussy footing around until it is too late. For hesitancy and delay today is the greatest threat to the survival of humankind and where if we do not come to our senses quickly, in fifty-years time, the world will have become very similar to most probably how we can picture in our minds, a world very much like hell itself.

Dr David Hill
World Innovation Foundation
Bern. Switzerland

]]> By: Alex Krogh-Grabbe http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58438 Alex Krogh-Grabbe Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:49:55 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58438 That was a historic speech. At 5:00 am, I don't want to go to sleep for tense excitement and hope as to what might emerge in the next few hours. Today could be a turning point in history, and we could be the partial initiators of it. Let us all hope, and those of us with the power to do more than hope, do it. May you have energy, wisdom, luck, and success, youth delegation! You are our voice! That was a historic speech.

At 5:00 am, I don’t want to go to sleep for tense excitement and hope as to what might emerge in the next few hours. Today could be a turning point in history, and we could be the partial initiators of it. Let us all hope, and those of us with the power to do more than hope, do it.

May you have energy, wisdom, luck, and success, youth delegation! You are our voice!

]]> By: BaliBuzz: U.S. Finally Dragged Kicking And Screaming into UN Climate Deal « It’s Getting Hot In Here http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58434 BaliBuzz: U.S. Finally Dragged Kicking And Screaming into UN Climate Deal « It’s Getting Hot In Here Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:34:03 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58434 [...] on what that deal is are emerging, and I hope to hear more soon from the youth delegation ably representing us “on the ground” in Bali. However, for now, this is from Reuters: NUSA DUA, Indonesia [...] [...] on what that deal is are emerging, and I hope to hear more soon from the youth delegation ably representing us “on the ground” in Bali. However, for now, this is from Reuters: NUSA DUA, Indonesia [...]

]]> By: jessejenkins http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58427 jessejenkins Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:00:23 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/15/youth-statement-to-high-level-plenary-in-bali-this-is-our-last-chance/#comment-58427 Well said! I'm so glad to be ably represented by the <i>real</i> delegation to Bali! Thank you for speaking for us all. Well said! I’m so glad to be ably represented by the real delegation to Bali! Thank you for speaking for us all.

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