Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement
Ben and Rachel gettin’ down with animatronic penguins, and covering the Conference of Youth – where 700 youth leaders converged before COP15.
Rachel is Executive Director of CleantechU, where she works with campus leaders at the student, faculty and administrator level to create multi-disciplinary communities of cleantech entrepreneurship at leading U.S. universities. Prior to CleantechU, Rachel ran the Business Council on Climate Change (BC3), a membership organization of over 100 major Bay Area companies committed to sharing best practices on climate solutions. In 2008, Rachel founded Campus InPower, a non-profit consultancy that delivers innovative funding mechanisms to college campuses seeking to create multi-million dollar sustainability funds. Rachel graduated from UC Berkeley in 2008 with a degree in Conservation and Resource Studies and Forestry, and is winner of the David Brower Youth Award, Morris K. Udall Fellowship, and Big Ideas at Berkeley Innovation Grant.
Hey Global Warmers:
Why are there fewer Climate Change demonstrators than consensus scientists? If you get these 25 thousand science saints of yours to march with you I might re-consider your SAVE THE PLANET insanity.
And, why are the effects of climate change after 23 years still only far away in the rain forests, polar caps, mountains and deep in the oceans. I’m sick of shoveling snow for a quarter of a century. WHEN WILL WE FEEL “YOUR” CLIMATE PAIN?!
Why isn’t there a shortage of Oxygen from all of this CO2 being produced from combustion?
If climate change is powerful enough to destroy life on planets, shouldn’t it have started affecting me by now? Hello, 23 years now.
How can you doomers look yourselves in the mirror and not feel like a perfect chump for getting to a point in your life where you bow to a fat politician promising to make the weather better with higher taxes?
How is the action of hacking worse than you doomers denying my kids futures with your promise of death by SUV gas?
Speaking of fossils, every continent has tropical fossils, even under the polar ice. So how does melting prove we caused it? Why are we not at least being happy about the possibility and probability of avoiding this misery after all. Do we wish for this climate hell to happen?
Do you think this promise of death is sustainable in public support for another 23 years? We the people call the shots, not your consultants dressed in white well pressed lab coats.
The UN has allowed Carbon Trading to trump 3rd World Education, clean water and starvation rescue. Nice job.