World Leaders
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CHILDREN TELL WORLD LEADERS TO CONSIDER THEM
Children don’t mince their words and hundreds of thousands of South African children will tell world leaders what they want them to do about the planet. The kids’ main message is: “Consider Us” … so that the world they live in will be habitable in years to come.
Children between six and eighteen are being asked to explain, in 20 words, why world leaders should consider them when signing their climate change treaties. What is precious about our world? Why is it worth saving? These messages then appear, in real time, on a dedicated website, serving as a voice of the generation with the most to lose. A voice that grows louder every day as the virus spreads and the messages roll in.
When 13 year-old Kiyan van Rensburg says: “We will make our ancestors proud. We will follow your example”, the pressure is on to set a suitable example. And young Alexander Dickie makes a valid point when he asks: “If the earth doesn’t survive, who will?”
A selection of the most hard-hitting, heart-rending messages will be collated in a book and delivered to heads of state at the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen in December. These world leaders will be asked to sign the book, which will constitute, effectively, a signed oath to heed the demands of children all over the world.
Once signed, the book will travel back to Cape Town, South Africa, where it will be buried in a time capsule at a UN heritage site, to be opened twenty years from now. Let’s hope our actions today will stand up to scrutiny in 2029!
The children’s Consider Us campaign begins in Africa and spearheads a global movement. A groundswell of emotion, passion and genuine pleas is set to touch even the hardest hearts and, in its honesty and innocence, will challenge world leaders to listen to what the world’s children are telling them. Most of the business leaders, environmentalists and heads of state – those who decide the world’s future when they thrash out a framework for the war on climate change – are middle aged. This is one of the biggest challenges facing the issue because, while it’s commendable having the vision and urgency to act now, most of the people involved in this global rescue plan won’t be around to see whether it works or not. Their children will be around though, so if anyone should have a say in what the world will look like in a few years’ time, it should be them.
There seems to be a genuine belief that Copenhagen can succeed where its predecessor, Kyoto, fell short.
Parents, teachers and children are being encouraged to participate in the campaign so that these messages can be delivered to the world’s top money men in Cape Town next week so that they may take those messages on to Copenhagen. If the finance world invests more responsibly, we can live in a better world. visit www.considerus.org to have your say.
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Do you believe world leaders & big business are knowingly leading the planet into environmental catastrophe?
If this is so, would it not contradict the other theory that they manipulate power for the benefit of themselves and their successors? If I were a powerful world leader, greedilly securing future fortunes for my family, the last thing I would want is to mess up the world’s eco system so that my children would starve or the world implode on its self, which is what many environmentalists claim will happen.
You underestimate the power of those who are greedy and ruthless.
First, note that you can’t simply lump “all world leaders, etc.” together. There are many who are working to create responsible environmental policies and bring tthe kind of technology we need online. Al Gore isn’t the only one by any means.
But the irresponsible oes are not being stupid. They are well aware of how such things work–they know their history, politics, and economics. Leading their countries–or the world–intoa catastrophe in order to increase their own wealth and power doesn’t bother them–and there’s no reason why it should. That power and wealth will insulate them from the effects they are causing.
Look at history. The slave owners of the South brought the Civil War on themselves–a calculated risk, and they lost. But by 1880 they were mostly still there –running their plantations, and making more money than they had before the war. How many corporations making weapons were destroyed–on either side–in WW1 or WW2? Take a look at who built the Japanese “Zero”–Mitsubishi Corporation is still right here. Many American corporations that were important in that war–RCA, for example–arelong gone.
These people are well aware of the consequences of their actions. But they know the burden of cost and suffering will fall on the rest of us. And they will then make even more money rebuilding the worldthey destroyed.
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