A Vancouver-based campaign has a novel idea to save the planet: lower the voting age.
Called the “18to8” campaign, it’s an initiative of the David Suzuki Foundation.
“We are a group of Canadian kids who want to tackle climate change in the voting booth,” its website reads. “We are the future of this planet and we’re not going to just sit back and watch as it gets destroyed. While grown-ups are worried about grown-up things like gas prices and political popularity contests, we’re passionate about protecting the natural world—our home—and we’re willing to prioritize a livable climate over all other issues. In the federal election this October 21st, for the love of the planet, let us vote.”
The 18to8 campaign emphasizes that time is running out.
“The world’s leading climate scientists have told us we have less than 12 years to get global average temperatures under control,” the website continues. “By the time we’re old enough to vote, it will be too late. Game over! We will be the ones most affected by climate change, and yet we don’t have a say… how is that fair!? By lowering the voting age from 18 to 8, we can make sure climate change is the number one priority in this election, and all elections to come.”
David Suzuki Foundation CEO Stephen Cornish is quoted in the release saying that the campaign is not about giving children the right to vote, but rather about getting adults to vote based on how climate change will affect children and future generations to come.
Hitler created the Hitler Youth so he could brain wash the citizens at a very young age. Now Canadian
NationalistSocialist are doing it again. Kids are young, stupid and brainwashed.Good grief.
Look at the featured photo. The adult hand is looking at a spreadsheet … and the children are looking at, what??
More brainwashing, some really need to be sulfatized.
WTF. This has been done already – on film – with disastrous results …https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063808/reviews
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Some epic bits from this movie: 1) Richard Pryor spikes the DC water supply with LSD, resulting in a congress-full of hopelessly tripped-out Senators and Representatives. 2) Ed Begley and Shelley Winters wander about in flowing robes and caftans at the “Acid Concentration Camp” for people over 30. 3) Extremely young Billy Mumy confronting the great lout, Max Frost (Christopher Jones) and declaring “We’re putting everyone over 8 out of business!” 4)Diane Varsi cavorting nude in a fountain 4) Future Brady Buncher Barry Williams as the young terrorist.
let them vote at age 8!
Any initiative by the “Suzuki Foundation” is corrupt and should be avoided at all costs.
If you let kids vote the country will be bankrupt within a year. Venezuela will look like paradise.
…Given how many “adults” voted for a good head of hair and legalized weed over fiscally sound policy, it could not get much worse letting kids vote.
Hmm. Good point. The mentally handicapped would be more astute voters than the lot we have now.
Kids that age can’t even decide what is the best time to go to bed on a school-night. Surely you don’t want them dictating your tax bracket …
That and Ice Cream
They really don’t like nap time though, even though they need it.
Yeah, then the world is one big Cambodia.
Kampuchea
Gesundheit.
Spank these little brats and send them to bed. The adults are talking.