05 August 2008

Kingsnorth: Climate Camp And Social Justice

You can see some photos uploaded to Indymedia yesterday here. Medway Trades Union Council has announced its support for the Kingsnorth protest.

George Monbiot:

"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 - or 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 ... Everything I have fought for and that all campaigners for social justice have ever fought for - food, clean water, shelter, security - is jeopardised by climate change. Those who claim to identify a conflict between environmentalism and humanitarianism have either failed to read the science or have refused to understand it."

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