Youth against Climate Change !

Climate change is real and it will affect us all. The world is getting warmer and human activity is a major cause of this. The problem is now urgent but the situation is not entirely hopeless, at least, not yet. Many people care about global warming, but as young people, we are the next generation and we feel that we have the most at stake. Whilst many individuals and some governments are beginning to take action, experts agree that current efforts are way too feeble to solve the problem. We aim to transform public attitudes to climate change. We are run by young people and hope to engage students of all ages to help us spread our campaign. We provide ideas, resources and information to help students and teachers in schools, colleges and universities to run projects and promote practical solutions to climate change in their own communities. Together, this generation will tackle climate change. Human-caused global warming is real and it is now too late to do anything about its impact over the next 30 years. Global temperatures will rise by 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius. There will be as yet unimaginable devastation through flooding, changes in weather patterns, desertification and uprooting of entire populations. We will survive, but what then? If we do nothing, then the temperature rise could be 5 degrees within a century, at which point the survival of our species will be in the balance. Perhaps it is too late even to prevent this. We have to act soon, we have to think big and we have to work together. Humans are bad at all of those things, especially the last. And the window of opportunity is closing very quickly indeed. We probably have less than a decade to get it right.

From Bryan Appleyard, The Last Refuge, Sunday Times, June 2006