In true It’s Getting Hot In Here fashion, the international youth performed a flash dance during the first day of the UN climate treaty negotiations. We made our presence felt outside the the first open plenary session of the conference.
Over 100 youth gathered for the action and we were literally surrounded by press. The message was clear: these negotiations will determine whether we will inherit a world with clean, safe energy and we must not delay action.
The “it’s hot in here” chant used for this flash dance has become the un-official chant of this movement. And if I’m not mistaken, this blog takes it’s name from that chant.
You know you’re in a bad position when the fate of the world hangs in the balance and those who claim to stand for justice and sustainability greet the opening of the negotiations with a cutesy dance. Sad.
Ah. Impressionable youths. I remember when I was like that. Then I graduated from college, got married, got a job, bought a house, and had a child. Those days of being idealistic and naive are long gone. They say that countries are getting older. It seems more like they are getting younger. Too bad. We could learn a lot from them being that they’v been alive long enough to give first hand knowledge of what is exactly going on with the climate. I believe there have been warming as well as cooling scares looming since the 1920′s. Maybe this is just another false catastrophe?