Democracy Now’s segment on Power Shift ‘09. Last weekend, 12,000 fired-up high school and college students traveled to DC for “the largest youth summit on climate change in history.”
This clip features interviews with young Power Shifters explaining why they came — from the environmental injustice of living near a coal plant to uranium mining on Native lands to coal strip-mining in Appalachia.
In 2050, will we live in the world they have left us, or the world we have created?
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