"I'm Scared For My Future": Student Disrupts Speech By US Climate Envoy Todd Stern in Durban

DemocracyNow.org - Several prominent U.S. environmental groups have accused the Obama administration of obstructing negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference and have called for the United States to step aside and let other countries carry on with the talks. Earlier today, the top U.S. climate negotiator Todd Stern addressed the U.N. summit for the first time. But as he took the stage, Middlebury College student Abigail Borah interrupted the proceedings. "I am scared for my future," Borah told Stern. "2020 is too late to wait. We need an urgent path to a fair, ambitious, and legally binding treaty. You must take responsibility to act now." Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman later questioned Stern about Borah's comments and accusations the United States is a major obstacle to progress at the climate talks.

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[happilea]

Amy Goodman....I am very proud of you, I am proud of your honest and couragous reporting. You make me proud to be an american woman. Keep up the good work and report the news in its entirity as you do. You are a true american hero to the people of this nation and deserve the nobel peace prize for your work.

[fusEldar]

in 1 minute, Amy Goodman does more journalism then the entirety of western media combined.

[LifeInDreamState]

After the top scientists at East Anglia University Climate Research Unit were caught red handed in the Manipulation of evidence: “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”

The fact is their is no hard science to back up the theory of global warming.

[goldragon362]

You can just tell how full of shit this guy is by all the um's and aw's that he stutters. Shame on the US for now focusing more on this.

[thedarkshitstain]

Good for that girl. People, start doing that more.

[danielprovost]

@WhyMeMoFo very true, capitalism is the biggest problem the human race has. And we probably won't make it out alive.

[williammitrus]

I'm sorry...I am to tire to talk about the destruction of the world. Let me get a latte and we can chat later. What a fricken joke!

[Lukeor]

@WhyMeMoFo Capitalism is not the problem you nut job. Google corporatism is economic fascism.

[binkiie4dictator]

maybe when people start shooting those who would hinder the much needed changes that need to take place to stave off global disaster, will the elite stand up and listen.

[KBurchfiel]

"Nobody is listening to you."

Abigail finishes speaking to tons of applause.

COP guy: owned.

[quidproquo2004]

Sometimes I think about how apathetic people in the US can be and it brings a tear to my eye: we enjoy so many comforts while millions suffer and most of us will never understand this.

[quidproquo2004]

@SalmonRushdie You're an ignoramus.