Young activists in Durban: Rebelling against the climate change dinosaurs
Climate change will affect young people the most, but they are grossly under-represented at UN climate negotiations in Durban. A group of students from China and the US, however, is trying to challenge this with a shared vision for the future. Read the full story
Ms. Borah is a true hero, and I admire her courage. I hope that she and other like minded young Americans can dedicate themselves to a long and difficult process of politically organizing the rest of her generation, and all U.S. citizens who are still capable of thinking outside the orthodoxy of the religion of Reaganism. This faith was primarily organized around the issues of abortion (anti), gun ownership (pro), and the sanctity of “small” government (ie. ineffective at restraining the greed of corporations in any way). The new American hot button issues need to become the inordinate influence of corporate money on U.S. politics, and the relationship of that to all other forms of twenty first century progress–especially climate inaction. Unfortunately, the religion of Reaganism in the U.S. is largely about looking back with nostalgia toward the nineteenth century, and the economic power of this nation enables that misguided faith to act as a drag on global progress into this new century and beyond.