The group has renowned climate scientist James Hansen on board to help promote the cause. Hansen, who heads NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, noted at Wednesday's press conference that climate change "poses a great inequity for young people."

"Climate change should not be a political matter," said Hansen. "We need to identify those candidates for office independent of political party who will support the policies that preserve the climate, our planet, and the future for young people and nature."

Climate change, alongside Peak Oil, the exponential debt economy, and the wholesale destruction of farm land (in the name of sprawl) and techniques and diversification (in the name of industrial monocropping, global agribusiness, corn ethanol, and farmland ownership concentration), should indeed "not be [seen as]political matters", because they're not.

They're bedrock social matters, regarding the longterm health, well-being, and stability of society itself. (For purposes of this argument I'm taking the integrity of the environment as a social issue as well, as that integrity will be decisive for the integrity of society itself.)

So climate change and the others absolutely do "pose a great inequity for young people", as these all manifest how our recent predecessors lived obscenely beyond their means and have left their own grandchildren little but exhausted and poisoned soil, poisoned air, poisoned and depleted water, ravaged habitats, only the memory of exterminated species, fenced-off land, obliterated manufacturing bases, dismal jobs at waste-away wages, slashed safety nets, a corrupt bankrupt government, a tottering economy, an empty cupboard, a diminishing energy supply with nothing to replace it, and a global climate they have set in motion, a motion which is accelerating, whose effects are already frightening, and whose ever-extending, ever-darkening shadow of the future issues a threat no one can fathom.

Inequity indeed.
   

or a million robot march?

Will Smith ftw!