We're saved!: Brainwashed, unelected Canadian fourth-year history student hopes to influence international policy based on her belief that invisible gases are making Canada too warm

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The enormity of the challenge that awaits 24-year-old St. John’s resident Meghan McCarthy, who leaves for South Africa Saturday, and the other 17 members of the Canadian Youth Delegation (CYD) is daunting, though.

A desire to influence Canada’s international climate-change policy  propelled McCarthy to apply to the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition to join the team in Durban.

“I always wanted to go and always wanted to be more involved, and I saw that as a good opportunity to be right in the thick of things and be a core member of the delegation,” she says.
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A fourth-year history student, McCarthy has made a conscious decision to dedicate her life to climate change advocacy. She says she awakened to the reality that global warming is “the greatest injustice that has faced our world, and also the biggest issue facing my generation and my community.”“A lot of times (our leaders and delegates) say things they don’t mean or say things because it sounds good,” she says. “So it’s all good to say they think the youth are important, or they think the future of Canada is important, but the way they justify that is to say we have to keep (destructive) industries in mind, too, because they’re important to the future as well.
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She and her colleagues will also, for the first time, have direct involvement with the talks.

“We’re part of the youth constituency, which (allows us) to make interventions into the negotiations,” she says, “because this year we’re getting official constituency status. So we actually are a part of the negotiations, though what we say might not be taken to heart.”