How Pink Power Can Help Fight Climate Change

by Michael Jones · 2009-10-15 06:28:00 UTC
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Today is Blog Action Day (http://www.blogactionday.org/), the annual day in which bloggers from around the world unite to write about the same topic on the same day. This year's topic is climate change, and if you think the topic has little to do with LGBT rights, think again.

LGBT rights activist Peter Tatchell, one of the most vocal champions for equality in the United Kingdom if not the globe, spoke about the importance of LGBT folks getting behind the campaign to fight climate change. Last month, Tatchell put it pretty bluntly: "There is not much point campaigning for LGBT human rights unless we have a habitable planet on which to enjoy these rights."

Or, in other words, the two movements aren't mutually exclusive.

Tatchell's comments came as he joined several other prominent UK activists to launch the 10:10 campaign, which called on folks in the UK to cut their emissions by 10% in 2010. And if the LGBT population were to sacrifice their carbon footprints for this campaign, we'd be making a monumental difference in the fight to save the planet.

"Queers make up one in ten of the population. By reducing our energy consumption by a tenth, ‘pink power’ can help save the planet,” said Tatchell.

And hey, wouldn't it drive the anti-LGBT crowd nuts to know that 'pink power' helped save the planet?

(Photo courtesy of missbossy's photostream on Flickr.)

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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