We have five years MAXIMUM to avoid irreversable climate change. But the climate change conference currently underway in South Africa is trying to be "reasonable" or "politically possible" with a goal of 10 years to make serious change. The climate change conference is about to fail (or has already failed) to make a proper agreement, and the Kyoto Protocol (as flawed as it is) is about to start expiring.



Anjali Appadurai, a student at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, addressed the UN climate conference on behalf of youth delegates.



The snippet is from Democracy Now as broadcast on Dec 9, 2011



MIC CHECK!







