Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published September 21, 2009.
As part of the global day of action focusing on climate change, the political satire group, the Yes Men, published and distributed fake copies of the New York Post today.
It´s front page story was titled “We´re Screwed: official city report predicts massive climate catastrophes and health disasters.”
The fake issue of the Post was distributed free of charge to New Yorkers on the street and in subways. The paper and the online version of it contain satirical - but factual - articles on climate change.
According to the Yes Men, some 2,000 volunteers handed out nearly a million papers. FSRN´s Jaisal Noor spoke with one of the men behind this ploy, the Yes Men´s Andy Bichlbaum.
“If we don´t do something quickly we´re screwed, we´re really screwed. And we´re screwed also if we think that sustainable development technologies are going to save us, that´s not going to do it either. We don´t need technology we need political will. What we´re doing is publishing what is important in a language that everyone can understand. The science is not complicated you can sum it up in two words: we´re screwed.”
The Yes Men´s action comes as New York prepares for an international climate change summit. Environmental activists are staging hundreds of public demonstrations and flash mobs around the world today, to tell global leaders to take action on climate change policies.
The tck tck tck campaign, which has a countdown to the Copenhagen climate summit on its website, is urging people around the world to call their local leaders and representatives and express their concern over global warming and December´s Copenhagen negotiations.
Activists also organized several events in New York today in order to kick off the New York climate week. FSRN´s Manuel Rueda spoke to reporter Jenny Johnson who was at the opening ceremony.
