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We.

Our generation is unique.  Not just because of the internet, not just because of the pressing unemployment and civil unrest we have seen globally, and not just because of the threat to our future posed by climate change.

Expressing what is unique about our generation is really difficult.  It is something that has recently become a bit of an obsession of mine.  We grow up in different cultures, different economies and under different political situations.  So when I asked 9 young people from different countries to videoblog about their passion for climate activism, I got a multitude of ideas and creativity, but there was a common feeling.  There was an elastic band binding these people together, though they had never met.

Why? What is this feeling I have that we share something?  I think if I try to answer this question all I will produce is a rectangle of text which will sit losing water, passively evaporating.  But if I gave people the space to share their thoughts, and connected them in an international conversation, what would they say?  They might just leave behind a few residues that could react.

A spark.

That’s why I’m going to start work on a new video series.  Because I want to find my voice, and I want to make sense of the multitude of voices and shared experience that forms our generation.

I’m looking for people.  If you’re passionate and have something to say, get in touch.

Young people express their sense of being connected at the UN Climate Talks in Cancun.