Watch Kumi Naidoo, the new executive director for Greenpeace International, address climate change in his “inauguration YouTube video”:
“After several years in the anti-poverty movement I came to see how the struggles against poverty and the struggle to reverse catastrophic climate change are two sides of the same coin. All our different struggles are linked together.”
That reminded me of my Blog Action Day 2008 post: Pollution, poverty, war, lights, camera… action!
“If we are able to understand the moment we live in and respond with the courage to create a green economy, to push for an energy revolution and to fundamentally ensure that we can share this planet in a more equitable way we can reverse the dangerous path that humanity has started on. […] at a time where civil disobedience appears to be the only way we can actually push our governments Greenpeace’s methodology offers us the most promise.”
Found via Lara Smallman’s Put Humans First at TH!NK.