Ted Turner and Tavis Smiley come for Kofi, but it’s not the drink. Two of the United States’ well-known media owners-practitioners come to lend their support of the President of the Global Humanitarian Forum, Kofi Annan’s project, Time for Climate Justice Campaign.
Both Turner and Smiley enjoin the general public to join the ‘tck tck tck – Time for Climate Justice’ campaign by downloading for free the campaign song ‘Beds Are Burning’ or by uploading a ‘tck’ video, image or text message to the human clock on www.timeforclimatejustice.org
The former United Nations Secretary General’s Climate Allies already include over 80 musicians, academics, politicians and celebrities who support his campaign for an ambitious, fair and effective climate agreement in Copenhagen in December.
In June 2009, Annan headlined the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival to launch and speak on ‘tck tck tck’, the Global Humanitarian Forum’s Time for Climate Justice’ campaign. Havas Worldwide created the campaign.
Owner of CNN, founder of the United Nations Foundation, Turner summarized the urgency of the, saying, “There is no bigger problem than tackling climate change. If we don’t do something now there’s a good chance we will lose all of the beautiful places we love, most of the world’s species, and much of humanity. There’s only one planet. We’re all in this together, and we’ve got to come together to save it. Tick-Tick-Tick”.
Smiley, a popular African-American journalist and radio and television host, drew attention to the injustice of climate change. “Apathy for climate change is one of the world’s worst injustices against its poorest citizens. Leaders at Copenhagen must listen to the voices of the underprivileged first, for they will be the first ones to rise up or the first ones to die.”
Climate Justice has, at its heart, the principle that emissions have a price and greenhouse gas emitters must pay. The countries, and peoples, who are suffering the most from the adverse consequences of climate change – both now and in the future – have done the least to cause it.
adobo magazine supports ‘tck tck tck’ Time for Climate Justice Campaign.
