Youth Against 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.

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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.





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 For more information, watch this excellent short film from climate challenge or alternatively view this short film by Leonardo di Caprio (broadband required)
	"This week a massive section fell from one of the world's best-known mountains, the Eiger, as the glaciers which hold it together retreat. Glaciers … are melting across the globe....." Read more from this editorial in The Independent: A Primer in Climate Change for Doubters (July 2006)