Action Day Saturday-Secretary of State for Climate Change Calls For Eco Activists and Agitators

Secretary of State for Climate Change, Ed Miliband, was recently quoted as saying “The scale of the popular movement and the force with which activists and agitators deliver their arguments is key to the success of any future international agreement to tackle climate change.”

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These are strong words, from someone whom you would think would be on the “Non-confrontational” side of the eisle, but these are strange times. Even Al Gore was quoted as saying “If you’re a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration,”

While speaking at the Environment Agency conference this week, Ed Miliband went on to say that “We need the utopians and we need the agitators. We need the people who say that people like me aren’t doing enough. It is vital for activists to form global networks that would help give their message more weight. This can’t be done by government alone, it needs a popular movement to make this happen. That movement needs to do more to find its international voice.”

He continued his speech by saying “The most important thing of all is that people can say of us in decades to come ‘these people saw the scale of the challenge, they saw the threat that was posed by climate change and despite tough times they did act and they did make a difference to ensure we met our obligations to future generations.”

What is the world coming to when even the Politicians are asking people to speak out and against even themselves? I think that we are coming into a world where even the politicians realize that they can’t make change by themselves, and that change needs to start from the ground up, just like all lasting change, always has.

Were coming into a world where it’s o.k. to care about the environment, where its o.k. to look around and say “I don’t want to live my life like a lemming. I refuse to be a sheep. I refuse to over-consume. It’s o.k. for me to want a better world, and damn it if I’m not going to try to make a positive change!

As always, keep up the good fight and Alter the Eco!

Post Script: My condolences go out to the families of the Walmart Employee who was killed and the woman who lost her unborn baby in the Black Friday Stampede, to consumer crazed Black Friday pigs.

Adam

Photo: courtesy of Rozanne via Flickr Creative Commons License

Source: Edie.Net

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