[W]e either get this right, as rich and poor countries acting together, and we secure the future of our children and grandchildren—if we get it wrong, ultimately we all go down together.

Yes, the U.S. might go down after Bangladesh and some small island states, but in the end, it’s in the self-interest of the U.S. government, and certainly it’s in the interest of the American people, that they join the party.” ~Kumi Naidoo

One of South Africa’s leading climate change activists, Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International and the chair of the board of the Global Campaign for Climate Action,
which is a global coalition of civil society, known by the tcktcktck.org name, spoke with Democracy Now!’s Mike Burke in Cancún at the U.N. Climate Change Summit.

In this video Kumi Naidoo makes it plain what the goals of what environmentalists want to see at the Cancún climate talks, what they are seeing at the present moment and what has to be done to get the earth friendly treaties they want to see.