TRUST Arizona
Channel: Our Children's Trust #youthvgov
Date: 2012-09-20

In this episode of the TRUST Series, meet Jaime Lynn But­ler, an 11-year-old Navajo artist, who rec­og­nizes the extreme dif­fi­culty this admin­is­tra­tion faces deal­ing with the cur­rent polit­i­cal cli­mate cri­sis. On Jan­u­ary 24, 2012, dur­ing the State of the Union address, Pres­i­dent Obama rec­og­nized that, "The dif­fer­ences in this cham­ber may be too deep right now to pass a com­pre­hen­sive plan to fight cli­mate change." How­ever, Jaime also rec­og­nizes the guar­an­teed con­se­quences of cli­mate change if Amer­ica fails to do more than what is polit­i­cally fea­si­ble. Accord­ing to lead­ing cli­mate sci­en­tists, the Earth is in "immi­nent peril." Should we fail to make a mas­sive assault on CO2 pol­lu­tion, the entire life-support sys­tem of our civ­i­liza­tion and our species will begin to unravel. Because Jaime knows that human-induced cli­mate change is a mat­ter of car­bon math, not car­bon pol­i­tics, Jaime is not only writ­ing to Pres­i­dent Obama and ask­ing for assis­tance, she is also shar­ing her story with oth­ers so that we can visu­al­ize the urgent and unstop­pable nature of human-induced cli­mate change.