Does Al Gore belong in jail?
Remember when Al Gore said: "I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants"?
Rainforest Action Network does that. The group has issued an invitation asking Al Gore to join them "in civil disobedience against the construction of new coal-fired power plants."
According to Mr. Gore's office, he is considering doing just that.
This is from Mark Hertsgaard at The Nation, which, in case you don't know, is probably the longest-lived progressive publication in these disunited states:
Rainforest Action Network issued the invitation to the former Vice President, according to RAN executive director Michael Brune. The San Francisco-based group has a twenty-year history of protesting against destructive logging practices and other causes of climate change; it specializes in targeting corporations as much as governments. . .
RAN plans a national day of protest against coal on November 16 according to Brune.
If Gore did end up getting arrested during a protest against a coal-fired power plant, it would make front-page news throughout the world and put a spotlight on what some climate scientists and activists consider the single most important priority in the fight against climate change: halting the use of coal as the world's top source of electricity production. Coal is the most carbon-intensive of the three major fossil fuels (the others are oil and natural gas) whose combustion produces most of the carbon dioxide that is helping to raise temperatures and change climatic patterns on earth. . . The United States . . is responsible for three times as much of the excess CO2 in the atmosphere as any other nation. . .
Al Gore could launch this campaign with a bang if he joined activists in facing down the bulldozers.
Read more at The Nation
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