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Joey Faulkner

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twitter: @JoeyMFaulkner

Joined: February 2011

Age: 21

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Thu 3 Mar 2011

A New Shade of Green

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I need to clear something up before I start: I don’t want to hug a polar bear, I don’t want to sing around a campfire and the only reason I don’t drive is due to overwhelming apathy but I do care about global warming. There is a chance that - at some point in the future - I will be severely inconvenienced by global warming and inconvenience is one thing that I will fight to the death to avoid. Extreme weather, finite resources reaching their limit and the loss of polar bear calendars all seek to infringe upon my cushy life in several decades time and not enough is being done about it. Things are tough at the moment. There’s no money left, every man and his dog has a nuclear arsenal and Ludacris is featured on a song written by a 15 year old. The truth is, there are more important things to sort out than climate change and I think the first step in getting it dealt with is to accept that it isn’t our most pressing issue. I think that the reason we have no real public motiv ...