For Immediate Release:
Climate Activists Drop Banner halting UN Motorcade, Raise Warning of Ineffective “False Solutions” to Climate Change
New York, NY – Early Friday morning, at the end of the first week of the High Level meetings during Climate Week in New York, a caravan of police-escorted limousines and SUVs carrying UN delegates was delayed as they approached the 42nd street bridge en route to the UN complex on eastern Manhattan. A 25-foot banner reading “UN: Cap + Trade is a Dead End” was deployed as the motorcade drew near.
A group referring to itself as the “Greenwash Guerrillas” claimed credit for the banner, and prior to a hasty departure threw leaflets down onto the stalled traffic articulating their demands:
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- We know a highly-developed campaign has been launched in the United States by the worst transnational corporate polluters, Wall Street financiers, and well-funded professional enviros along with their lesser-funded camp-followers to pass a bill, any bill, possessing the namesake of ‘the climate’;
- We hold that polluting corporations have never advocated for anything that would harm their bottom line, their short-term profits or their shareholders;
- We recognize that Wall Street financiers, responsible for a world-wide economic recession due to a speculative bubble collapse, have set their sites on a $14 trillion carbon trading system as a means of reviving their fortunes;
- We know that corporate polluters have effectively defanged the mainstream US environmental movement. Many organizations that appear to publicly support environmental defense are welcoming disastrous policy within the US and the leadup to the December COP15 Climate Talks in Copenhagen. The mainstream environmental movement has become little more than a sounding board for corporate sponsors of profit-generating climate change legislation.
As a people, we cannot define the systematic destruction of our environment, the unprecedented exctinction crisis, and oncoming impacts of climate catastrophe as a money-making opportunity. We will not forget or forgive those who mindlessly, selfishly advocate a cap-and-trade system. The False Solutions agenda of the corrupt circles of government at home and abroad will meet resistance.
Signed,
Agent Simple Green
The Greenwash Guerrillas
Thanks for posting this brian. It’s high time we hit the streets for bold climate action. Callinge out the excessive giveaways to dirty industry and wall street is essential. I gotta say though, with antartica melting faster than ever I don’t think we can afford not to say what we are for at the same time as what were against. otherwise we drown. There was a lotta text on that leaflet. Whether it’s 100 percent auction, carbon fee, or otherwise we must demand action of some kind. Again, mad respect for the nvda. Wish I was there!
WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are my hero!
Good work! Thanks for the reality check! They do forget that the earth has a non-negotiable position.
I thank you all for proving once again, that global warming is political, not science.
So is this about right? I’m trying to understand you radicals:
-They say that the majority of the scientists all agree that climate change is real.
That many scientists can’t all be wrong, so don’t try and tell me it’s a conspiracy.
-If everybody’s talking about it so much there must something to it.
-We may as well deal with climate change just in case because it’s better to be safe than sorry later on.
-Stopping climate change is a win win because doing so will not hurt the planet and it will curb pollution levels too.
-Why wouldn’t you want to help the planet?
-We have to leave something for our children and their children.
-We can’t let these giant oil corporations keep polluting our planet.
-And you know who’s in bed with EXXON don’t you, yes, the neocons and Bush’s republican right winger friends.
-Lets show these evil right winger Bush lovers how much suffering we the people can endure to save the planet by living with and consuming less.
-That will sure show them!
-And besides, if climate change isn’t true, it aught to be.
-It aught to be because this could be the wake up call for all of the people on our planet.
-This could be just the starting point that we need: a timely crisis that can bring the people of the planet together and make the world right again. A world of love and peace.
NPR just did a series on natural gas. While I realize most of the folks on this site look at natural gas as one of the “false solutions,” I recall cheap natural gas in the late 80′s and through the 90′s essentially stymied any discussion of energy policy. From the series below it sounds like the sirens’ song is playing again…
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113142234
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113080237
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113138252
“When not challenging [...] the oppression of the fossil fuel industry he’s probably hiking, cooking or gardening.”
You, Brian, are in support of the fossil fuel industry and feel it’s being oppressed by climate activists?
nice. do a repeat this year.