Last weekend, Our Thai Solar Generation youth activists started the first stage of "Climate Rescue Station" at Kangkarjarn Riverside Scout Camp in Petchaburee province, Thailand. The rescue station is part of the international Tck Tck Tck campaign to stop climate change.
Representatives from every region of Thailand helped to build the Climate Rescue Station. They included youth from Rachawinit Bangkaew, Rattanatibate, Sampran Wittaya, Arunwittaya and Phuket Girls School.
The students involved in the activity learned how to build an environmentally-friendly house (earthen house or soil house) and also how to make solar thermal water heaters and wind turbines. The activists also gained direct experience by practicing and learning how to live life in harmony with nature -- something that's necessary for changing the attitudes and behaviors of the future generation to be friendly to the environment.
After the success of such a program, the youth have a commitment to protect the climate and to exist as a learning centre model. The model aims to raise youth’s awareness on climate change, as well as to give them the ability to link causes and impacts of climate change and also to systematically convey the issue.
The region suffers from the worst impacts of extreme weather events, typhoons, floods, forest fires, droughts. Climate change will render large parts of our region unfit for agriculture while scarcity of freshwater for drinking and irrigation is likely to affect millions of our people in coming decades. Therefore, we, the Solar Generation youth pledge that we will cooperate and take serious actions in campaigning to provide knowledge and understanding on climate change and to promote the use of renewable energies to mitigate climate change.