Teenagers Launch "Inconvenient Youth" Network to Fight Global Warming - MarketWatch
From A Pitch for Deeper Green Thinking from Venture Capitalist John Doerr:
Update: More on Mary Doerr here:"The world's youth have a huge personal stake in global warming," said Inconvenient Youth founder Mary Doerr, a high school senior. "After all, it is our future that hangs in the balance. The Inconvenient Youth network will give a voice to the many youth around the world who want to make difference now."Some background on John Doerr's financial interest in CO2 hysteria is here.
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About the Trainees
The 80 trainees hail from Los Angeles, Marin, Orange County/Laguna Niguel, Sacramento, San Diego/La Jolla, Santa Ana, San Francisco, and Palo Alto, CA; Armonk, New York City, and Pelham, NY; Cleveland, OH; and Tokyo, Japan. Select trainees can be made available for interviews to credentialed media.
About Inconvenient Youth Network
Inconvenient Youth is a non-profit, non-partisan network that educates and activates teens to join the fight against global warming. The student leaders believe every individual has a moral obligation to contribute to finding a solution to the climate change crisis. The group was founded by Mary Doerr, its executive director. The foundation is headquartered in Menlo Park and is an affiliate of [Al Gore's] Alliance for Climate Protection.
From A Pitch for Deeper Green Thinking from Venture Capitalist John Doerr:
Doerr owes his call to environmental activism to his 15-year-old daughter, Mary. Last summer, after Doerr had seen Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, he asked Mary what she thought about global warming.
"I'm scared and I'm angry," he recalled her telling him. "Your generation created this problem; you better fix it."
As a result of the conversation, he said, he jetted to Brazil to learn about renewable energy, traveled to Davos, Switzerland, to liaise with world leaders, and helped set up the Greentech Innovation Network, a consortium of scientists, policymakers, and entrepreneurs focused on solving environmental problems through innovation.
The children of tech personalities are usually off-limits — unless their parents brought them into the public arena in the first place. Which is the case with Mary Doerr, the 15-year-old environmentalist daughter of Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr, who's guilted the powerful venture capitalist into a personal commitment to green issues. So, what do we know about Mary Doerr? She told her father that his generation had triggered climate change, and it was their job to fix it, which is the public explanation of his environmental activism. To judge by the Kleiner partner's reading list, she's headstrong. And, from this family photo from the TED conference, Mary's way trendier than her dorky dad. One hopes she doesn't move on to the next fad before Doerr has had time to save the world.
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because john doerr didn't have enough "finance" already? it's about time some teenagers dragged themselves away from facebook long enough to do something real
Wow, Mary's dad looks great for his age! Check the up-turn date in the hoaky stick...
Face it, Mary is 15 (or so it is stated). She is still a naive high school kid with little or no knowledge of applied science beyond grade school brainwashing.
Let’s talk again after she EARNS a PhD in a related scientific field, not in business like daddy. Until then, her opinion (and that's all she has is opinion) is as significant as a fart in a wind storm.
People need to stop replacing science with perception. The Greens are blowing more hot air than all the SUV's ever created and little of it is based on real science.
And to anyone convinced doomsday is upon us after seeing the Goracle's film: I have some carbon offsets to sell you. They are not cheap, but you'll feel SO good about buying them, you'll want more.
Well, a 15 year-old is at least as well educated as Al Gore when it comes to this subject, so why not.
This is, however, the one time that I'd have to say the facebook generation is doing more by pushing around electrons on a web page to please friends than trying to affect the climate system of an entire planet.
Everyone is confusing opinion with science, including the IPCC. Funny, whenever someone tries to interject science, opinion gets in the way.
One hopes that this kid will outgrow the fear of AGW like most kids outgrow zits. If not, I know the result will not be pretty.
Do something real? Are you kidding me? Does this ignorant girl realize when she says "you better fix this problem" that she would have no tv, no computer, no medical advances, and absolutely no tech advances since 1900? Is that a problem? Someday people will wake up and actually learn about the real climate and weather system. As a meteorologist, I'd advise you to actually learn what the heck your talking about first before taking ingorant actions. Or go be an ignorant carbon cop... by the way, do you need to go to tech school to be a carbon cop? :)
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