{"id":1940,"date":"2014-11-03T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T20:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2014-11-03T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T22:35:03","slug":"stepping-out-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/stepping-out-for-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping Up and Out for Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthropogenic Climate Change has once again hit the headlines http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/environment\/9887611\/Climate-change-We-need-to-act-now<\/a> ” It’s all so overwhelming! What can I do? \u00a0I got my finals coming up and \u00a0all my energies are focused on \u00a0them” \u00a0(And so they should be!) But what when they are over? \u00a0When you do come up for air \u00a0and\/or need some inspiration as to what one individual can do check out this 18 year old from the US who impressed me not only with her commitment to the cause \u00a0but with \u00a0how articulate she is able to argue her case and the case of people her own age.\"kelsey<\/a> “As world leaders converge for the UN\u2019s global summit on climate and thousands gather in New York for the People\u2019s Climate March, an 18-year-old Oregonian student, Kelsey Juliana, is walking across America to draw attention to global warming and taking her case to the US supreme court. Now just out of high school, she\u2019s co-plaintiff in a major lawsuit being spearheaded by\u00a0<\/span>Our Children\u2019s Trust<\/a>\u00a0that could force the state of Oregon to take a more aggressive stance against the carbon emissions warming the earth and destroying the environment. She\u2019s walking across America as part of the Great March for Climate Action, due to arrive in Washington, DC, on November 1.”<\/span> Video interview link:\u00a0http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/episode\/climate-change-next-generation\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anthropogenic Climate Change has once again hit the headlines http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/environment\/9887611\/Climate-change-We-need-to-act-now ” It’s all so overwhelming! What can I do? \u00a0I got my finals coming up and \u00a0all my energies are focused on \u00a0them” \u00a0(And so they should be!) But what … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[473,15,436],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-teachers","category-general","category-science-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}