Crowd falls silent when Xiuhtezcatl Martnez speaks

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is just sixteen by when he spoke the audience fell silent, after all he is he “kid warrior”.

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez - the "Kid Warrior"
laughs while talking to a full house
audience at ACMI in Melbourne.

      

Martinez, from Boulder, Colorado in the U.S., has alone with about 20 equally young friends about the same age has sued the American Government for its failure to adhere to the country’s constitution and demonstrate its attention  to their live and liberty.

That failure, according to Martinez and his fellow litigants relates to the government’s inaction on climate change.

The young American featured in an event at Melbourne’s ACMI centre and was a part of the annual Sustainable Living Festival and the teenage spoke to a sell-out crowd.

Martinez, who was eloquent in his maturity, argued that he has all the qualities of a teenager and although his desire to speak out about the state of the environment has taken him, well before his time, into a world populated by serious and generally much older people, he stays grounded through adherence to teenage-like things, such as hop-hop.

He is an accomplished hip-hop artist, something he demonstrated twice,, and has found the music to be a wonderful way of getting a series message across to younger people.

Martinez told how he first spoke publicly when only about six and it has simple grown organically from there and has helped grow “Earth Guardians”, of which he is the youth director, to an international worldwide body with some 500 branches in almost every country.

This is just the 'bad news' not the 'really bad news'

Guy McPherson.

Guy McPherson told us just the “bad news” in a presentation just a few days ago at Boulder in Colorado.

He said a little about the “really bad news” and in the Boulder presentation just talked about the “bad news”.

McPherson is a professor emeritus of natural resources and the environment at the University of Arizona.

One in one thousand year 'Biblical' flood buries Boulder

Biblical-like floods pushed boulders
around like toys in Boulder, Colorado.

“Biblical” has been the term used to describe recent floods in Boulder, Colorado, when the city and surrounding area was inundated recently.

The U.S. city recently received more than half its average annual rainfall in just three days, leaving at least three dead and forcing the evacuation of many homes and businesses.

Climate Central has reported on the event in a story headed: “Colorado’s ‘Biblical’ flood in line with climate trends".