Abigail Borah is a 21-year-old student from Middlebury College and member of the youth climate delegation. This video is of her speaking out at a plenary session of the Climate Talks in Durban, Sourth Africa, just as US climate envoy Todd Stern is about to address the assembled environmental ministers.
Her message:
“I am speaking on behalf of the United States of America because my negotiators cannot. The obstructionist Congress has shackled justice and delayed action for far too long. I am scared for my future. 2020 is too late to wait. We need an urgent path to a fair, ambitious and legally binding treaty. We need leaders who will commit to real change, not empty rhetoric. Keep your promises. Keep our hope alive.”
As she was speaking, a moderator declared, “No one is listening to you.”
That is exactly the problem. Join us in listening to her now:
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SHE makes me prouder than to be an American that many of my so called representatives.