Teens Battle Global Warming
At the age of 17, California native Mary Doerr has founded the nonprofit Inconvenient Youth to educate her peers about the climate crisis and what they can do to help prevent global warming. This weekend, 75 students from across the country will gather at the group's first training session at Stanford University.
A presentation based on former Vice President Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth will be featured—Doerr says Gore is a family friend—with the hope that students will take the slideshow and their newfound knowledge back to educate their hometown communities.
The group seems to think the country's "deciders"—read the older and more powerful—may not have their future interests at heart and have resolved to take matters into their own hands. "We believe that, given the urgency of this incredible problem, we can no longer rely on others to take responsibility on our behalf," says the group's mission page. "We know that as a generation, we can solve it."
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Great
I think it is inspiring to see that some youth are actually taking some actions. They are the pioneers.
Teen Warming Plan
If they're interested in reality, not just selections of such, the teen plan needs to include the likelyhood that the hockey stick shape of the warming increase graph would track, in time frame and shape including the change from blade to handle, one of the developemt and exploding increase of wireless communication whose energy frequencies activate, thus warm, just as those from the sun, with no built in regular cooling periods. Radio, data transmission, TV, cell phones, remotes, sensors, trackers, lodaters, satellites, internet, GPS,radar, lasers, CBs, pagers, handhelds galore and growing, etc. all create or utilize energy frequencies that keep the atmosphere in a constant state of activity, aka: warmth. Denial of any connextion, of course, would dwarf that of the warming itself but nature cares not for what humans think, just what they do, and we do plenty, including sending a text message. It's not just the gas comforter we have created, it's also the hot water bottle we put under it and we that in many ways, some obvious, some not.
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