The Age of Stupid or The Age of the Green Transition?
// September 23rd, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Blog
Imagine. It’s 2020. Where are you? How old will you be?
In 2009 world leaders failed to come up with a climate change treaty that committed to science-based targets on greenhouse gas emissions. By now, greenhouse gas emissions should be down by 40% below 1990 levels to avoid runaway global warming. They are not.
The Canadian tar sands helped fuel China’s burgeoning economy and an America addicted to oil. Promises of ‘clean coal’ and carbon sequestration have failed completely or have not lived up to the ‘green’ solution that industry claimed they would be.
Killer hurricanes are happening more and more frequently. African countries are buckling from intense heat, drought, disease and dried up reservoirs. Countries still committed to the carbon economy are waging war over dwindling oil reserves. Millions of migrants are living in squalor in refugee camps near western boundaries.
The worst is yet to come. And you know it. Do you have kids? How old are they? (more…)
Here is another ‘Filling The Hill For’ to add to the storyboard. Keep them coming, Canada!
Gracen Johnson avoided the label ‘activist’ for most of her young life. Now, at 20, the University of Guelph student and self-described environmental advocate finds herself at the helm of Canada’s largest citizens’ mobilization effort on climate change.
