| | |  Editorials | Environmental | October 2009 
Important to Raise Environmental Awareness among New Generations: President Calderón
 Suzanne Stephens Waller - Presidencia de la República
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October 15, 2009
| | President Felipe Calderón attends inauguration of Temporary Exhibition on Climate Change: A Challenge for Life and a New Energy Future. | |
Mexico City - President Felipe Calderón declared that this generation has the enormous challenge of repairing the damage humans have caused the Earth by guaranteeing a world and a Mexico that will last forever.
“Today, all the world’s inhabitants will have to make every effort to ensure that society is able to cope with climate change and deal with it. But nothing of what Government does will work if the new generations of Mexicans do not have the commitment to respecting and protecting nature instilled in them in their education, training and awareness.
During the inauguration of the Temporary Exhibition: Climate Change, a Challenge for Life and a New Energy Future, the President declared that it is crucial to educate the new generations on this issue, since it is not a question of aesthetics or appearance but of survival.
At the Papalote Children's Museum in Chapultepec, the President urged society and governments world to pledge to stop global warming.
“We have to fight it together, because paradoxically enough, those that will end up paying for the consequences of climate change will be the poor countries, because no-one suffers more from climate change than an indigenous woman who has to walk miles carrying a bucket of water on her shoulder. No-one suffers more from climate change than the poor population living precariously on the river banks because they have nowhere to settle. They are the ones swept away by the river currents and those that die in landslides," he said.
That is why Mexico has assumed its responsibility in order to change the logic that only developed countries should work to combat climate change: “We should all work, each according to his possibilities and capacities but we all have to work."
President Calderón listed the programs and action his government has implemented in this area such as the Green Fund proposal, which he will take to the Copenhagen Summit in Denmark in December.
He mentioned that one of the goals for the end of his administration is for 26% of the energy produced in Mexico to be renewable.
“So it is up to us to work as much as possible, which we are doing, but also to instill the environmental awareness we lacked in the upcoming generations." |
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