Our Manifesto

This blog is written by young people, and its purpose is to ponder, examine, reflect, and convince others of the perils of climate change. 

It seems presumptuous, even with the wealth of information available out there, to assume that everyone knows that it's happening now and its effects will be far-reaching. Our main obstacles aren't those scientists who believe that the climate change happening now is part of the Earth's natural cycle.

No. It's ignorance and apathy. Every person who does not know is another consumer living an unnecessarily wasteful lifestyle. Everyone who knows but do not care, they've made their choice. Perhaps we should respect their choice. After all, they do have free will. We can't force them to change.

Maybe not. Choice hinges on the person being freely informed of the nature and consequences of that very decision. Is it not our responsibility to ensure that people DO get informed?

Of course, there are many out there doing their best to inform others of the inconvenient truth of global warming. What else can we do, besides making sure that no person remains ignorant?

The last route is to persuade others that the choice they have made is narrow and very short-term oriented. As Adam Smith noted, everyone makes choices based on their own self-interest, and the world doesn't run solely on the altruism of others. Let's not forget that. 

This blog does not want to preach to the choir. We want the fence-sitters and those on the other side to come here and see that the grass is greener on this side.