Cape Farewell project background

Public money is evidently used to send impressionable students on a long fossil-fueled trip, where they are carefully fed alarmist propaganda, then taught how to regurgitate this propaganda to the media.

How we work - Cape Farewell - The cultural response to climate change

Cape Farewell exists because Director David Buckland read an article by a NASA scientist who said the window of opportunity for dealing with climate change was very short, perhaps less than 10 years.

British Council Scotland - Cape Farewell - 2008

The expedition is being organised by British Council Canada in collaboration with Cape Farewell.

British Council Canada

The British Council is the UK's agency for international cultural relations.

2008 Cape Farewell Expedition Blog » Blog Archive » From somewhere in the Davis Straight (near Canada!)

The past couple days have been mind-numbingly intense, and have probably been the most powerful of my life. We started yesterday with a power point presentation on climate change by a marine biologist on board the ship. His talk was very opinionated and very powerful, and evoked many different emotions from the audience (at one point, one particular scientist asked, exasperatedly, “What is the melting point of a human being?”). Having gotten our minds turning, we moved on to a group discussion about how we have been changed so far, and how we are going to go home to people who haven’t seen what we’ve seen and try to make them feel the same passion that we now feel. The discussion went on for four hours. Today, we began again with a workshop about media with the journalist on board who represents the CBC. With us, she discussed the most difficult questions that we are most likely going to be asked by the media when we return home, and how to deal with the questions that we are not educated enough to answer, or that we are uncomfortable with. Somehow, this workshop managed to move back to the topic of the first discussion, and two and a half hours later, our brains were back to feeling just as stretched as they did the night before.

2008 Cape Farewell Expedition Blog » Blog Archive » Across the Arctic Circle

Today being a travelling day, we have been in sessions all morning. Patricia ran a workshop on being interviewed by the press, where the students tried to refine the messages they want to get across when they get home – and experimented with the questions they most hope they won’t be asked.

Climate Change - Cape Farewell Canada

The first Cape Farewell expedition to originate in Canada takes place September 7-20, 2008, when 16 Canadian high school students representing each province and territory will join an international group of students on an expedition of discovery to Canada’s Arctic.
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After training in Toronto followed by air transfer to Iceland, the expedition departs from Reykjavik (Iceland) on September 7, rounding Cape Farewell on the southern tip of Greenland and arriving at Iqaluit (Baffin Island) on September 20.