1991 Climate Change Vision: A Time Travel Flashback
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1991: Climate Change Vision: A Time Travel Flashback "Symphony of Neptune's Seas" Today's News from the Future (est. 2010) offers a time travel flashback to predictions I made about climate change for a high school speech class I attended at Agoura High School in 1991. My gifted speech and debate teacher, Pete Peterson, was a survivor of Auschwitz who taught us extensively about speaking up against the rise of authoritarianism. He presciently reminded us of the possibility that fascism would rise again soon, and specifically in the United States. He shared his skills of rhetoric with us for fighting future fascism, the same abilities he used to survive the Holocaust. When I started fasting on Fridays for the climate, one of my goals was for the U.S. to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement. Now that our administration is in transition, that will happily be happening, but it's not nearly enough. This agreement is not so much a tangible action as it is a promise to which we will have to hold our leaders accountable for many future years. The dangers of climate change multiply with every passing day so the need to fight for a healthy future is ever-increasing, never diminishing. I will continue to fast on Fridays until our movement reaches its goals. [audio mp3="https://www.kyraoser.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/PNN-intro.mp3"][/audio]
1991 Climate Change Vision: A Time Travel Flashback
1991 Climate Change Vision: A Time Travel…
1991 Climate Change Vision: A Time Travel Flashback
1991: Climate Change Vision: A Time Travel Flashback "Symphony of Neptune's Seas" Today's News from the Future (est. 2010) offers a time travel flashback to predictions I made about climate change for a high school speech class I attended at Agoura High School in 1991. My gifted speech and debate teacher, Pete Peterson, was a survivor of Auschwitz who taught us extensively about speaking up against the rise of authoritarianism. He presciently reminded us of the possibility that fascism would rise again soon, and specifically in the United States. He shared his skills of rhetoric with us for fighting future fascism, the same abilities he used to survive the Holocaust. When I started fasting on Fridays for the climate, one of my goals was for the U.S. to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement. Now that our administration is in transition, that will happily be happening, but it's not nearly enough. This agreement is not so much a tangible action as it is a promise to which we will have to hold our leaders accountable for many future years. The dangers of climate change multiply with every passing day so the need to fight for a healthy future is ever-increasing, never diminishing. I will continue to fast on Fridays until our movement reaches its goals. [audio mp3="https://www.kyraoser.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/PNN-intro.mp3"][/audio]