This week brings the latest effort by Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) to ram home the dangers of climate change. Their last foray into the effects of climate change shall be remembered for the Flash Mob on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.

This time they have ‘Youth decides’, a campaign to hold an online vote by Australia’s youth at www.youthdecide.com.au where you can select which level of reductions you’d like to see by the year 2020. With an accessible website and kitsch drawings of our future world to decide from, it shall certainly raise some attention but how effective shall it be in affecting change?

‘Youth decide’ is based on a similar American campaign in 2007 called “step it up congress” that sought climate target reductions of 80% by 2050. It achieved media recognition with both Hillary and Obama including it in their election promises; however, whether the committment exists to acheive the required figures is yet to be seen.

The most important thing to take from ‘Youth Decide’ is that there is concern especially among the youth and future leaders of our nation that the current administration shall invariably neglect their opinion when reaching decisions.

On another note, don’t forget your birthday cards as Kevin Rudd is turning 52 in six days, meaning he will be 92 in 2050. Makes sense why he doesn’t seemed to fussed about committing to reductions. But doesn’t he have 3 kids? Where’s your future accountability mate?

A couple of days ago it was reported across the world's media that an Aboriginal group in the Northern Territory was appealing to the UN to be given refugee status. They wanted to be legally considered 'internally displaced' as they claimed with the Federal Government's intervention they had been forced from their land.

Following that, James Anaya, a special envoy from the UN Human Rights Commission, publically came out and said the policies of the intervention were ‘racist' and that they broke many of the articles of ‘the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples'.

One of the clearest Articles broken reads:

Article 19: ‘States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them'

How embarrassing. International condemnation and refugees in a first world country.

Yet, White Australia is silent. Most of us can reconcile that it's a far away problem, with people we've never really connected with. We might feel bad occasionally but at least we don't steal the children anymore.

And, even if it is bad being Aboriginal at least the intervention is something, at least we're doing something.

And for most of us that's it, it's just a problem we can push further into the back of our minds, and a people we can push further toward the extinction our ancestors always wanted.