World Future Council chairperson Bianca Jagger used the Live Earth event as an opportunity to launch the campaign KidsCall. According to Herbert Giraude writing for Treehugger, “Applause met the children who joined Bianca Jagger on stage to call, in twenty languages, for kids around the world to send in their letters or pictures and make their voices heard in the halls of adult power.
Climate Progress asks how can you tell your kids that we are committing ecocide? Actually, the National Wildlife Federation has advice on the right and wrong ways to tell kids about climate change that Joe Romm thoughtfully referenced.
The lead off sentence was just another example of how this blog is overly dramatic, like the scene in the movie where the mother tucks the two children into bed on board the Titantic as it sank, or what the kids have to say for themselves.
“Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University, said at a United Nations press briefing last month that with rising sea levels, drought or excess precipitation and stronger hurricanes, climate change is no longer a dubious issue. The IPCC (Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change), of which Oppenheimer was an author, declared that global warming is ‘unequivocal’ and that human activity has played a significant role in these changes.” the Ticker
This blog is unable event to claim partial credit for adding the term to the global heating alarmist lexicon. The treatise of “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” by Jared Diamond is “ecocide” — ecological suicide — plays a greatly under-estimated role in the fall of societies.
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