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Time for Civil Disobedience on Gateway?

11/16/07

Permalink 06:50:46 pm, by edoherty Email , 265 words   English (CA)
Categories: Gateway, BC Politics, Transportation, Port Mann Twinning

Time for Civil Disobedience on Gateway?

In many parts of the world, coal fired power plants are the biggest contributors to the climate crisis. But here in BC, the automobile is. If Al Gore and James Hansen say it is time to start doing lock downs around coal fired power plants, should we (particularly those of us who are no longer young) be doing similar things to stop freeway expansion?

What do you think?

Read the full article from Z-net. A short exerpt follows.

    In his recent global warming op-ed in the New York Times ("The Big Melt," August 16, 2007) , Nicholas Kristof reported on a conversation with Al Gore in which the former Vice-President said: "I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers, and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants." His comment was a reaction to the ever- quickening pace of polar ice meltoff, with all its catastrophic implications, and the huge role played by coal-fired power plants in advancing our demise through global warming.

    Gore's comment was also strikingly similar to a recent quote from Dr. James Hansen, the top climate scientist at NASA: "It seems to me that young people, especially, should be doing whatever is necessary to block construction of dirty (no CCS) coal-fired power plants."

    What does it mean when one of the top scientific leaders ringing the alarm on global warming, along with a top political leader, both suggest, in so many words, nonviolent direct action (or civil disobedience) to confront the challenge of climate change?


 more at http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=13675

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