Head Shaving Protest at End of Failed Climate Negotiations

On December 18, 2009, the last day of the UN climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, I joined 30 others in shaving my head in protest in front of the conference center. At the end of a two year action plan, the world is walking away from the Copenhagen negotiations with no fair, ambitious, and binding deal in hand.

To me, my shaved head symbolizes a promise of new growth in the international climate movement to secure a fair and binding international agreement on climate change. The world needs our leaders to step up and act now, and I hope the act of shaving my head helps start conversations about what has happened in Copenhagen and what needs to happen going forward to help us secure a sustainable future for my generation and others to come.

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• youthclimatepro
• climate
• copenhagen
• cop15
• protest
• shaved heads

[Polishman1]

"Climate shame", they say. Of course. E.g. the temperature falls too low in Poland in the winter (climate shame).

[Polishman1]

People got free haircuts and even whine about it. At the same time politicians did a decent job by watering down all that global "wa(/o)rming" farce.

[MindBombs]

This is wild! Really ballsy and really creative way to spread the ideas of the movement and continue to mobilize. Keep it up!!!

[stopchemtrails]

These people don't speak for me or the MILLIONS who don't believe in the whole Global Warming Scam.

Lord Monckton was the only worthy star of COP15... check out the video Monckton v Greenpeace, it is totally hilarious!

[cbecerra]

Valida!!! what you did!!!!????