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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
April 28, 2009 - 05:36 AM
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tell the un to support youth programs on climate change in the developing countries.
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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
May 4, 2009 - 11:22 AM
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If you are aged 16-30 and are interested in creating a difference within your community, check out www.sproutecourse.org! This course is really great for teaching project management and leadership skills!
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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
May 9, 2009 - 04:59 AM
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The UN...
i just can't believe they can change a stone
words and ink on paper thats what they do
it was never about finding solutions to problems.. it's about applying them.. and start to do the best we can
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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
May 9, 2009 - 06:33 AM
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it is high time we move from the era of paper campaign to real and meanignful campaign. we have the best campaign on paper but those lofty idea on paper should transform to reality. environmental education should be made a priority in our schools.Though it is tough for people to actually appreciate th importance of environmental issues due to so many factors which poverty is the major. Reducing poverty will go a long way to reduce environmental pollution.
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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
May 22, 2009 - 01:46 AM
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Hi.
I'm campaigning to prevent climate change and have made the following video to create awareness.
Watch it and please RATE it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs7aZ4KIL3k
Also pass it on to other like-minded individuals who want to change the world for the better.
This video is also an entry to a youtube competition. so do RATE it! 
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Fathima
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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
May 22, 2009 - 02:08 AM
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I also have a few rough ideas chalked out for a campaign. am sure we could pull it off if we put our heads together
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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
May 24, 2009 - 08:47 AM
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I think its great ...the efforts of this forum and look forward to doing more.
Am currently campaigning to prevent climate change and have made the following video to create awareness.
Watch it and please RATE it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs7aZ4KIL3k
Also pass it on to other like-minded individuals who want to change the world for the better.
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Fathima
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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
May 24, 2009 - 06:58 PM
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Ooh even though it seems the date the person was writing this thread for is well gone I can't help but reply.
The issue isn't with the UN (well, in part it is but that’s for another post maybe) but what seems to prove itself as a very effective way of combating climate change is a shift of opinion amongst ordinary everyday people.
The UN could help in being a part of this shift, supporting it as a campaign or addressing it through policy but ultimately until everyday people start knowing and caring about the full extent of climate change and all of its impacts it will be hard to make a real and positive change on a broad scale.
It’s about people telling people telling people I think. States need to enable the change, here in NZ our new government has delegated an additional billion NZD to improving motorways over the next x amount of years, if they used that to improve rail and public transport it would make a huge difference to how people got places.
Things like earth Hour are great but they only go so far, I know a lot of people who switched their lights off for an hour then partied hard late into the night afterwards thus still using the same amount of power just redistributing it.
As youth we are often accused of being too idealistic but perhaps a lack of idealism is (in some places) part of the problem?
Kudos to all the stuff the guy who posted this is doing - its awesome :-).
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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
June 9, 2009 - 01:22 PM
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I think many young persons do not know what climate change is, far less for its implications. In my country if I ask a 17 year old what is climate change they would look at me dumbfounded. Therefore I think as it relates to climate change and the youth, the UN can do a lot in the area of education. Specifically, the UN could partner with some of those websites which young persons frequent (facebook, myspace..) to create more awareness about climate change and its effects if nothing is done....
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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
June 23, 2009 - 01:55 PM
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monkeywise wrote:
I'd like to see the UN push member countries to establish core environmental education curricula.
PROBLEM: New study cites best educated Canadians have worst impact on environment
SOLUTION: core environmental education
High school kids in Ontario, Canada, this very week, are starting a course dedicated to environmental education.
It’s taken a long time for an important subject like environmental education to be taught on its own. We don't have it here in Nova Scotia.
Our education department experts say they are bombarded by many curriculum requests. Perhaps this was a problem in Ontario too, but they straightened it out. Retired astronaut Roberta Bondar chaired the working group there – she’s had a unique perspective on our planet, having seen it from space.
Until very recently, most provincial curriculums have had no perspective on Earth Education at all. (We need to start capitalizing the word. It deserves more respect.) Most curricula have completely ignored environmental education, or have treated it as an incremental afterthought. It’s only very recently, and grudgingly, that we have come to acknowledge the concrete consequences of our environmental inaction.
Even if some of our children, and certainly not all, received some piecemeal environmental education, the statistics are now staring us in the face: that minimal exposure has been supremely ineffective.
Even where it’s been used, the “diffusion” approach of smattering environmental “issues” throughout the curriculum has not been significant enough to effect a real understanding of the relationships in nature, of which we human beings are an intrinsic part. Otherwise, we would have university graduates who better understood the impacts of population, development and consumption.
But even the “diffusion” model would be something compared to the annual spring litter pick-up which most schools turn to for “environmental education.” To quote Steve Van Matre, the litter pick-up is like someone coming to you with two cups of water when your house is on fire.
Gestures aren’t enough. We need lifestyle change, and that requires a much deeper understanding of relationship dynamics. We also need passion, because science alone won’t solve these problems either. Science is an indispensable tool, but only a tool. We must model care for the world we live in, if future generations are to have a world.
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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
July 3, 2009 - 05:06 AM
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More programs involving the developing countries and their youth should be incorporated. That is were the maximum potential lies.
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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
July 13, 2009 - 08:44 PM
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I think there is always talk, not enough action. How are you going to stop the monopolies and greed. We are all a part of it. The damage we have done to mother earth is irrepairable. Are you gonna give up your car, computer, ipod, cell phone, or home. Shit we know what we did, we should have researched and planned accordingly for all these things we wanted not needed. I think creator loves us so much that he gave us what we wanted. Just like a father gives to his children. I think there is a lesson here to be learned. Did we learn anything? No, I think a good tongue lashing is in order, and a good spanking. Later!
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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
July 21, 2009 - 11:25 PM
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I think UN should focus more in informing the Youth on the impact of Climate change to their FUTURE. It would be nice to see YOUTH to be more active in environmental activies.
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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
July 25, 2009 - 11:47 AM
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I know this is late, but tell them that our safety as a species is in jeopardy and they need to shut out all the major oil companies because they have a powerful voice in the U.N. which does affect the language of how new initiatives are written, which tend to create more confusion rather than clarification on the reality of how human activities are affecting our atmosphere.
I say this to the major oil companies because they are at the top of the chain of modern life, they are influencing everything from our transportation to what kind of toys we give kids, they even influence the way government works due to the fact that they can pay off any politician to change legislation.
So its up to the Youth of the world to stop all the non-sense that the selfish and moronic people in governments who don't truly care about how they are going to change everything towards the worst (3rd world countries will suffer the most) because they love status quo and the success they enjoy in profitting off of a lucrative business (oil=cars=plastics=roads=everything we use in modern life=oil companies control and regulate our reality). THINK ABOUT IT AND ACT ACCORDINGLY, YOUTH OF THE WORLD!!
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Re: Climate Change and Youth: What would YOU tell the UN?
August 6, 2009 - 10:52 AM
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I would tell the U.N. that like every other government body they listen to the voice of those in power, not the people. We are supposed to be a democratic society but from where i am standing that is an utter lie. Sure we can share our views but do they really get thought out by our leaders, or thrown to the side. It is time for a change. Ask them this, why doesn't the U.N. listen to us for once, why don't they actually take our views, and our concerns, as the real thing?!
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