“Save our world. Act now!”
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Kids call on G8 heads-of-state during Japanese Prime Minister’s Berlin visit |
Hamburg / Berlin, 02. Juni 2008
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While German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japanese Prime Minster Yasuo Fukuda met in Berlin Sunday afternoon, 20 children presented their demands for a sustainable future to the upcoming G8 summit on Japanese-style invocation flags in front of the chancellery.
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| Photo: world future council |
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“We ask for action from the world’s leaders to assure that we have a future,” says 13-year old Niclas from Hamburg. He is one of thousands of youngsters in 35 countries who have joined in the World Future Council’s international “KidsCall” campaign. They have a single demand: “Let us stop acting today as though there was no tomorrow.”
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“It is time for today’s leaders to listen to the next generation of decision-makers,” says World Future Council Chair Bianca Jagger. “We are betraying future generations by failing to protect the planet. It is time to listen to their concerns.”
The KidsCall Team’s recent visit to Asia inspired them to use the medium of Japanese invocation flags on which the children have painted their slogans: “Stop chopping down the rain forests!”, “Why do you feed our food to cars?”, “Do you want to leave us a dead planet?”
“We are calling on the children of the world to join us,” explains Ansgar Kiene, WFC campaign manager. “We started last year at the Live Earth concert in Hamburg. We have now collected many thousands of letters, videos and drawings from kids around the world who wish to express their worries about climate change and pollution to the world’s leaders.”
The Team is seeking to deliver the thousands of messages it has collected to the G8 heads-of-state at their July summit in Japan. Children who wish to join the campaign can find additional information at www.worldfuturecouncil.org.
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