So, have you heard about Climate Camp? It's a name that's making news, and if you happen to be on the British side of the pond, you can join up activists from all walks of life to raise awareness about that dirty, dirty energy source known as coal. Greenpeace UK tells us:
Columnist George Monbiot will be joining the activists this year. He's written a powerful essay about it, which he posted on his site yesterday.
Here are some excerpts from his piece:
Everything now hinges on stopping coal. Whether we prevent runaway climate change largely depends on whether we keep using the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. Unless we either leave it in the ground or leave the carbon dioxide it produces in the ground, human development will start spiralling backwards. The more coal is burnt, the smaller are our chances of future comfort and prosperity. The industrial revolution has gone into reverse.
What he says next should be broadcast around the world, posted on every blog, printed in every newspaper, projected on screens so large that even the most ecologically blind politicians and average citizens can see it:
Read the whole thing. Excerpts cannot do it justice.
Send it to your friends. Tell them that coal is dirty. Tell them that E.ON and all of the other companies pushing carbon capture and sequestration as "solutions", are just looking for another excuse to build more coal plants and line their pockets.
They are wasting their time and ours, when we have very little time left.
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