Web Letters: Climate Change Power Shift

By Anya Kamenetz

November 15, 2007

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  • Your article on Power Shift 2007 clearly conveys the passion of the student activists who met at the University of Maryland and rallied on Capitol Hill demanding “Green Jobs, not Jails” and a reduction of greenhouse gases emissions in order to tackle climate change. However, a three-day conference and a day of lobbying is only a start. Only by voting in mass numbers will young people be positioned to demand better climate policy in the US. Legislators won’t act until their positions on climate change endanger their jobs.

    Student organizations, including our own, are gearing up to beat our 2004 youth/student voter turnout numbers, and we are confident that candidates will soon wake up to the perils of ignoring this important demographic. Millennials will prove Tom Friedman wrong. Which of course is what he hopes will happen.

    Kathleen Rogers
    Earth Day Network

    Washington, DC

    11/26/2007 @ 5:02pm


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