Japanese environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi's call to make climate chang...
TOKYO - Japanese environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi’s call to make climate change “cool” and “sexy” rang false to some Japanese activists on Tuesday, who said he needed to lay down some clear policy.
“On tackling such a big-scale issue like climate change, it’s got to be fun, it’s got to be cool. It’s got to be sexy too,” the 38-year-old Koizumi, son of a former prime minister and often seen as a future prime minister himself, told a news conference. “We’re just so disappointed, we’re devastated,” he said. The 18-year-old helped organize a protest march through some of Tokyo’s most trendy areas last Friday, joining hundreds of thousands worldwide calling on governments to control greenhouse gas emissions.
Seasoned climate activists said they welcomed Koizumi’s statements as something fresh from a government that has balked at serious reform and instead plans to build new coal-fired power plants.
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