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The TRUST film series consists of 10 groundbreaking mini-documentaries that examine the geographic, economic, and societal impacts of climate change on our nation’s youth and their communities. In May 2011, youth around the world demanded government protect their futures by joining with attorneys to file groundbreaking climate change lawsuits using the Public Trust Doctrine. Stories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery is a 10-part series featuring the voices of daring youth from across the country.
The 10 youth plaintiffs highlighted in the films struggle first-hand with the consequences of climate change, and the films show the perilous climate conditions affecting their homes and their families and communities livelihoods. The youth are suing the government to compel the courts to force government to initiate real climate recovery plans based on science not politics.
Former general counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency, Roger Martella, calls the litigation a remarkable legal action and a “comprehensive strategy… to ultimately reduce greenhouse gases.”It is a scientific fact that if our atmosphere is saturated with over 350 part per million (ppm) of CO2, then we “threaten the ecological life-support and severely challenge the viability of contemporary human societies.” We are currently at 390 ppm.
It is time to speak up, fight back, and restore our planet
Please go to http://www.ourchildrenstrust.org to learn more about the TRUST Campaign and Atmospheric Trust Litigation.
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Ashley Funk is an 18-year old from western Pennsylvania. Ashley is many things. She is an identical twin, the founder of Pollution Patrol, a volunteer at the local care home, and she loves to sing with her friends around campfires. Ashley is asking our leaders to recognize that environmental destruction is the destruction of human health and. in turn, realize that we have the potential for change. Ashley has done extensive research in preparation for a career as an environmental engineer and policy maker and she knows that we are not stuck in a society where we must rely on destructive fossil fuels to power our energy needs. We have the technology to move beyond this. Ashley is asking the government to come up with a climate recovery plan that does not destroy our single most essential resource…the atmosphere.
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Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is an 11-year-old boy from Boulder, Colorado. In this next film from the TRUST series, Xiuhtezcatl shares his story about why he joined youth from across the country to ask the courts to hear their lawsuit, Alec L., et al., v. Lisa P. Jackson, et al., which is based on one of the most fundamental principles of civilized society: TRUST.
Xiuhtezcatl is asking that our atmosphere be protected, because he loves playing in Colorado’s mountains, forests, lakes, and streams and fears that the resources he most enjoys will not be there for his generation if we continue emitting carbon at current rates.
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Glori Dei Filippone, is 13-years old and from Des Moines, Iowa. She loves performing, loves playing music with her friends and loves her sisters and her family very much. She is asking our leaders to understand that we all share the same sky and that just because we can’t see climate change all the time that we don’t deny all the evidence that is there. To find out how you can support Glori and the youth across the country that are making a difference for all our lives, watch her film, share it with others and take action.
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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.
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In this episode of the TRUST Series, meet Nelson Kanuk, a 17-year old who learned how climate change was affecting his community and felt he could best help by sharing his story. In this 8-minute film, Nelson explains that the main problem facing the northern parts of the world is that winter is coming later and later. This results in increased erosion due to permafrost melt, increased flooding due to warmer temperatures, and intensified storms because the sea ice forms later in the season and is unable to provide a natural barrier for our coastal communities. This, in turn, leads in the loss of homes, communities, cultures, and a way of life.
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Meet John Thiebes, a 23-year old beginning farmer has set out to change the agricultural practices on a worn-out patch of prairie in the agricultural heart of Montana.
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Meet Alec Loorz, a 17-year-old climate change activist from Oak View, California. When Alec was 12, he saw An Inconvenient Truth for the first time. Since then, he has been a dedicated activist for climate change.
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