A Graduation Speech to the "Class of 2099" on Climate Change and Tightening the Noose around Coal

http://tufts2099.blogspot.com and CNN iReport by Joe Seydewitz is here: http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-242455

The speaker is American climate activist Danny Bloom, appearing against a blue screen as a virtual avatar, giving a virtual graduation speech at his virtual alma mater in Boston, Tufts University, in the year 2099. The video was produced and directed by Aremac Chuang [.莊知耕], student in the communications department at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. The theme of the speech is taken from Dr Jesse Ausubel's prophetic words, written in 1988 in an academic paper, that "we must tighthen the noose around coal".

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[MrDanbloom]

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[MrBikolang]

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[MrDanbloom]

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[MrDanbloom]

If the entire industrialized world does not act within the next few years, the Class of 2099 will think the effects of global climate destabilization are as natural as earthquakes are to us today.

[MrDanbloom]

The United States and Europe, as major contributors of greenhouse gas in the past 150 years, must set clear measures to curb their emissions by 25% by 2012 and 80% by 2020. We need to take drastic measures to roll out at wartime-level pace infrastructure that will allow us to transition towards a carbon-free economy in the next couple decades.

[MrDanbloom]

Mainland China will soon be the biggest emitter of CO2 per annum, but the United States and Europe are still the largest contributors of CO2 as a whole. Carbon emissions from the 19th Century are still present and the heat that the oceans have trapped will continue to be released for hundreds of years to come. If we do not act in the next couple years, we might as well do nothing at all.

[MrDanbloom]

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[MrDanbloom]

9000 hits and then on to 10,000 - but does this speech make any diffference? Why are people coming here?

[MrDanbloom]

''Hi Dan. I looked HERE at your Youtube graduation speech to the class of 2099. -- Moving stuff. -- I try to stay optimistic but people have been encouraged, almost hypnotised, to become stupider and greedier at least since the 1950s when advertising and marketing really started to take off.''

--

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''On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it''

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[MrDanbloom]

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