In a monumental climate change movement this week, young adults from around the US are banning together to sit in on the coal-fired power plant that powers the Capitol building in Washington. PowerShift is a global youth climate movement put on by Energy Action Coalition, an organisation that works to raise awareness about climate change with younger generations. They are bringing together young adults from every state for a 3-day workshop on how to stage a proper campaign against climate change.
“The organisers, the Energy Action Coalition, have already mobilised 340,000 young people to vote on climate change during last year’s presidential election – so this is by no means a group of enthusiastic idealists to be patronised. This is a highly skilled, highly organised movement of young people who will not let vested economic interests destroy what the future holds for them.”
This stands to be a momentous occasion as the kids finally start to speak up and fight for their future.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/feb/20/coal-protest-power-shift
Science fiction has long supplied the vision of a technocratic world. It seems that as technology pervades even further into our human existence, there is a change now that is all to remniscent of 1984. Children’s Dictionaries are now being cleaned of their outdated, natural world, and mystical words and replaced by those of a more cyber variety. Much of this doen to the chagrin of the christian religion, who has seen a slow removal of their classic words as people embrace the vocab of the 21st century.
