A Survival Strategy for the
Global Young
We, the young people of the Global South and Global North, assert the following:
- The Earth is now undergoing rapid ecological collapse;
- Without an effective emergency response we will suffer intensely and perish well before our time;
- Despite their full knowledge of the environmental cataclysm, social rulers have refused to implement such a response;
- We have therefore been existentially betrayed.
This betrayal is an ethical obscenity:
a heinous act without parallel in human history.
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Given capitalism’s dependence on economic growth, world leaders appear to have blundered in 1994 when they ratified the UNFCCC agreement. As stipulated in the agreement’s objective (Article 2), this committed them to maintaining GHG concentrations at safe levels.
Climate scientists have failed to meet their social responsibilities: to clearly, fully, and accurately inform society about the GHG crisis.
I am a 71-year-old thinker who sees his death on the horizon. I therefore want to confess my greatest sin: when analyzing the ecological crisis I have committed thoughtcrimes.
If you are concerned about the ecological crisis you undoubtedly know that, four decades ago, Exxon scientists warned about “potentially catastrophic events” from rising concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs). You are presumably outraged that the corporation buried these warnings and then funded disinformation campaigns to prevent rational action.
The young need an advocate to protect their ecological interests. Currently they are at the mercy of older generations who are protecting the status quo.