Vancouver Sun
November 9, 2009

World youth will have to lead the way to climate change
By Barbara Yaffe

One of the challenges in addressing climate change is that the folks being asked to do most of the sacrificing constitute a different group from those who ultimately will reap most of the benefit.

As University of B.C. forestry prof George Hoberg points out, “in a nutshell ... the costs of action are here, now, and relatively certain. But the benefits of action are global, distant in time and highly uncertain.”

Hoberg, who blogs on climate change (Greenpolicyprof.org), believes that it will be young people who will “reshape the temporal, inter-generational component of the dilemma.”

Enter Brooke Atkinson and her North Vancouver classmates.

The 17-year old Grade 12 student, who caught the environmental bug in elementary school, has spent the past week mobilizing fellow students at Carson Graham school in North Vancouver to push for a strong Canadian position at the United Nations climate change conference next month in Copenhagen.

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