Living on Earth: Turning up the Heat on Coal

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=09-P13-00010&segmentID=6

Turning up the Heat on Coal

Activists concerned about the climate and the land in coal country are raising the stakes by putting their bodies in the path of coal – blocking mine sites, coal power plants and the companies that finance them. Incidents of civil disobedience aimed at coal power and coal mining are on the rise. Living on Earth's Jeff Young takes a look at who's doing it and whether it will work.

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GELLERMAN: Police in the nation's capital estimate 2,500 demonstrators recently took to the streets of Washington, DC. The protesters blocked the gates to the coal-burning power plant that heats and cools the US Capitol and many nearby federal office buildings.

Despite the frigid cold weather - and the possibility of arrest - the protesters wanted to bring the fight against global warming to the threshold of Congress.

As Living on Earth's Jeff Young reports, demonstrators are increasingly using civil disobedience to fight against coal.

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(Audio available at the link)

[David Dunham]

1. Idiotic. We need power plants.

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. Idiotic. "… coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet."

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2009/20090215_Damocles.pdf

[Nihil]

3. Idiotic. What you need is to CONSERVE, not just build more to support your waste.

"We need power plants"

Moron.
:mad: