by Mara MacKinnon -
Nov 18th, 2009 
When global leaders gather in Copenhagen three weeks from now, the concerns of the world’s youth will be impossible to ignore.
Young adults and teens know that if their parents’ generation fails to stop climate change, they will be the ones left to contend with the ensuing nightmare. So, what they lack in deep pockets, the climate change generation is making up for in determination and the media savvy.
By galvanizing large numbers of people around the world to call for climate change action, young people are making a bigger impact on the global political scene than ever before.
“Traditionally, there were the media, NGOs, lobbyists and governments that shaped what came out of these [international negotiations]. Now there is a rising impact from global civil society that is being engaged by young people,” said Richard Graves, a youth delegate to the 2007 climate talks in Bali and now a coordinator for TckTckTck.org.
“Bringing technology to bear on organizing is something that young people have gotten sophisticated about and have brought to political organizing.”
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