Vision

To help transition Japan to a peace promoting post-carbon country while enjoying every step of the process.
僕のビジョンは、祖国日本で、平和文化を育みポストカーボン(Post-Carbon) 社会を促進してゆく事です。
化石燃料や原子力に頼らず、他国の資源を取らない、
自給自足な国へのトランジションを実現させてゆきたいです。

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Global Power Shift and Do the Math movie 温暖化の新しいドキュメンタリー Do the Math

温暖化についての新しい映画がでたよ〜
めっちゃおすすめ!
日本語訳があれば良いのにな〜
今年はユース活動を盛り上げて
負の遺産を残さない共生的
エネルギー政策や
文化をさらにレベルアップするで!

It's been a while since I dealt with the issue of climate change on this blog, but I'm still engaged with it! Hard to prioritise which issue/solution to focus my energy on. But, maybe its a good thing to have such abundance. Unless the situation in Turkey gets really bad, I will be attending Global Power Shift in Turkey. The group that is organising this event, 350.org, recently sent a movie about climate change that was quite compelling. Sort of a sequel with a more serious call to action post-Inconvenient Truth. Since I always struggle to explain the seriousness of these issues (climate change, nukes, war, etc) and that we can actually make a difference, I'll leave it up to the pros. Check out the movie!

Below is a bit about Global Power Shift from their website



INTRODUCTION
The world is running out of time to summon the political will necessary to solve the climate crisis.

2015 looms large as a critical year when we must act swiftly and strongly if we are to have any chance of limiting global warming to below 2 degrees C, let alone get back to the 350 parts per million of atmospheric CO2 that scientists say is necessary.

The Rio+20 Earth Summit in June of 2012 was meant to be the starting point for a three year push to 2015, but the summit ended in a whimper rather than a bang. 2015 will come and go with only a whimper as well, unless the international climate movement can generate an unprecedented level of political pressure for climate action.

We need a massive and sustained show of force that disrupts the status quo and captures the public imagination. This ambitious goal is within reach. With a loose collection of organizations, activists, and networks in nearly every country on earth, the climate movement has the necessary potential to facilitate this sort of global groundswell. Now it’s time for us to realize this potential.

Global Power Shift (GPS) will begin with an international climate leaders summit of mostly young people in Istanbul, Turkey, June 24-30, 2013. The week-long summit will be a chance for us to refine skills, create personal bonds and community, share a global vision for change, and strategize how to organize different actions and similar summits back home. In the months that follow, in country after country we will organize national or regional summits.

Depending on the size of the host country, the summits will bring together anywhere between hundreds or thousands of activists and partners. The national summits will be opportunities to build on or launch national climate campaigns and to empower participants from around the country to return home equipped to lead local action groups. Local groups will in turn educate the public about the realities and solutions to climate change, implement solutions projects and campaigns, and begin to recruit for mass global action leading into 2014 and 2015.

Thus, through 2013 and beyond, together, we will begin to create the global power shift our world needs to effectively confront the climate crisis.

The supporters:



HISTORY OF POWER SHIFT
National Power Shifts and similar summits by different names are already scaling up the climate movement in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, across Europe, Africa, India, Japan, and South Asia. The first ever Power Shift, organized by the Energy Action Coalition, was held in the United States in 2007. It brought together nearly 6,000 young people from around the country for trainings and included a lobby day on capitol hill. The second US summit was held in 2009, and by 2011 over 10,000 activists came together for the third. For more information or to get involved, visit wearepowershift.org. Meanwhile the idea began to spark internationally in 2009 as the Australian Youth Climate Coalition led their own Power Shift and were soon followed by the Badlaav conference in India led by the Indian Youth Climate Network, UK Power Shift led by the United Kingdom Youth Climate Coalition, and Canada Power Shift led by the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition. By 2010, Power Shift also began to spread across more of Europe as European youth coordinated themselves to support ongoing national efforts across the region: http://powershifteurope.eu. In 2012, the momentum continues with Power Shifts in Sweden, Ukraine, Canada, Belgium, and New Zealand. GPS in 2013 will be a chance for us to all come together, learn, share, strategize, bond, celebrate, and collectively take the movement to the next level all around the globe.





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