Got this video in my email from The Climate Reality Project. Said I should watch it. I did. You should too.
Now share it on social media or email the link to friends. Because, why not?
UPDATE: I don't have a full transcript but I'm searching for one. However, this is only one of several videos featuring young people from around the world produced by The Climate Reality Project.
Although climate impacts are already being felt around the world, young people today are the ones most vulnerable to a changing climate. That’s why a few weeks ago, The Climate Reality Project challenged youth across the world to question the status quo on climate change and ask their leaders “Why? Why Not?” questions.
Questions like “Why are you not taking climate change seriously? Why not embrace actions that will lead to a future powered by affordable, clean renewable energy?” Young adults from all nationalities and backgrounds logged on to YouTube to submit recordings sharing their perspective on climate change and disbelief that more was not being done.
We received thousands of responses from 87 different countries in a matter of weeks. It was an overwhelming demonstration of millennials rising up to share their voice on this global issue so critical to their future. Our next generation of leaders, inventors, teacher and activists understand while they have their lives ahead of them, we do not have time to waste.
Some excerpts from the video (various teenager's voices from around the world):
Why did the generations before us leaves us with so many environmental problems? ...
This isn't just us losing, this is future generations - the entire planet as a whole ...
Why do we continue to do nothing when these drastic weather changes are already claiming the lives of people? ...
Why do you sit here and protest and continue to do nothing? ...
Why wait until it's too late to stop using fossil fuels? ...
What are you leaders afraid of? ...
The [muffled] issues important to me, for one, is the drought (new voice takes over), the dredging of the Great Barrier Reef, the deforestation of Tasmania ....
With the Amazon forest being destroyed, very little humidity comes here to the southeast regions, so in a few years we may have very little water here ...
My dad wanted to put a wind turbine in our garden. The council said "No, it doesn't look pretty enough." ...
When my generation grows up, we may not have a [muffled] summit about climate because it may already have affected us too much...
To the Leaders of the UN I would like to ask (new voice) why not? (new voice) Why not? .... (new voice) Why not come up with region specific solutions? (new voice) Why not make the change to clean energy? (new voice) Why not focus on increasing the efficiency of renewable energy resources? ...
Why not inform and engage the students of this generation to act upon climate change? ...
Why not (new voice) give tax benefits on clean energy? ...