These are the same people who use immense amounts of power to take their photos and videos and to stream other videos, plus movies and TV shows. Who seem to spend more time inside making TikToks than being outside in nature. Who always need a new phone, disposing of the old ones. Who are probably the largest group using vapes and disposing of the cartridges. Who are the biggest buyers of fast fashion. And energy drinks. Oh, and take long, fossil fueled trips to a climate conference to complain about That Guy having a big carbon footprint
Young people at COP28 call on world to “do better” to address climate change
Young people at COP28 in Dubai are calling on the world to “do better” to ensure their countries — and the planet — are habitable for generations to come.
The big picture: COP28 kicked off its second week with youth day, injecting energy in what will undoubtedly be the toughest days so far as negotiators work to hammer out some of the thorniest issues for the final text of the key Global Stocktake document. (snip)
“We don’t have enough time for discussions. We have to act now,” said Grace Malie, a 24-year-old youth delegate from the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu.
That’s a seriously long flight. Why does Tuvalu even have airports, considering how much they’ve been whining about climate doom?
It was a sentiment echoed by 26-year-old Tamala Pita from Tuvalu. But Pita, who is attending COP for the second time, said she also believes the climate summit gives young people the chance to keep the issues affecting their peers back home part of the conversations.
It’s almost 8,500 miles from Tuvalu to Dubai, which is more than most people fly in a decade or more, and that’s direct miles, not the number it would take for the multiple connections necessary. The typical American drives 12,000 miles a year. These two youts have well exceeded that with their round-trip flights.
Ahmed Abdi Osman, a 25-year-old representative of Somalia’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, agreed.
“As a youth leader, we are here to share our knowledge, to share our experience to share our insights from other youth leaders,” Osman told Axios after engaging with other youth leaders on a panel about the role of young people in climate action.
Who made you a leader? Is that like being a self-titled influence or Instagram model? Did you sail to Dubai or bike?
But they say it’s not enough. “There needs to be better efforts being put in by countries who are emitting the most while we’re at home feeling the most of the effects of climate change. People need to do better,” Pita said.
You and the other 90k in attendance? Why must other people pay for your beliefs?
Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees preindustrial levels is “not a goal for us, it’s a limit. Because once we exceed that, our lands become uninhabitable … And then, when we’re forced to move, where can we go, where we can practice the same traditions and culture?”
Uninhabitable! What happens when that threshold is crossed and everything’s fine, just like during previous Holocene warm periods? Who will get flogged at the masthead for scaremongering?
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