With carbon dioxide concentrations on the rise and time running out, states across America are scrambling for a solution. Most people agree that climate change is an issue, so an increasingly popular subject for debate is the solutions. In Oregon, we finally have the solution: the Clean Energy Jobs bill.
As a finalist for the Children’s Climate Prize, we traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, for the awards ceremony, and while we will be posting more details about our experiences soon, we wanted to share our acceptance speech with you.
While traveling to Sweden as a finalist for the Children’s Climate Prize, we stopped and spoke at an assembly at Globala Globala Gymnopiet, an innovative high school that lowers their carbon impact with all vegetarian meals. Here is a recording of our talk:
Our work on political activism has made us a finalist for the International Children’s Climate Prize. We will be traveling to Stockholm Sweden to meet the other finalists and the winner for this year: Edgar Edmund Tarimo from Tanzania. We are excited meet everyone and participate in all the activities.
So much of the climate debate seems mired in the details: numbers, regulations, statistics, graphs. We become lost in all these details, and we forget to ask ourselves: what does this mean? What does climate change mean for ourselves, our families, our friends, our health, our happiness, our future generations? I’ve thought about this question for four years since I was in fourth grade.
