Comments on: Fuel prices spur international actions http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/06/10/fuel-prices-spur-international-actions/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sun, 06 May 2012 08:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Breaking Fossil Fuel Lock-In « Breakthrough Generation http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/06/10/fuel-prices-spur-international-actions/#comment-65020 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:13:32 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4843#comment-65020 [...] to further lock in entrenched energy interests, are reaching a politically unsustainable level.  Trade is being blocked and people are getting a little too testy for their profession. The [...]

]]> By: Conrad http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/06/10/fuel-prices-spur-international-actions/#comment-64943 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:05:46 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4843#comment-64943 This is great! The reality is that for us to actually create real change we have to do more than just talk. Change happens when people get out on the streets, take direct action, and not let those in power continue business as usual.

Check out a great research paper from the University of Washington illuminating this fact. The paper shows the history of environmental policy victories in the US, and how in years when protests movements were active, policy was won.

http://www.policyagendas.org/pdf/agnone_paper1.pdf

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