"This Meeting Is A Fraud"

09/28/07

"This Meeting Is A Fraud"

Yesterday, along with 48 other climate change activists, I stood on the steps of the State Department to make sure the world knew, that President Bush knew, that he does not represent my voice on climate change. Today is the last day in a two day sham of a meeting that President Bush called on climate change with heads of states from the largest greenhouse gas emitters. 

49 of us, including the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of Greenpeace were arrested within just a few hundred feet of this meeting. We chanted "This meeting is a fraud" and "No More Hot Air, Clean Energy Now" for almost two hours before being given 3 warnings from the police to move our protest or face arrest. No one moved.

My blogs on this site are usually cheeky and full of odd info about issues surrounding the chemical industry, but today I'm talking about the single biggest, most devastating issue to face our generation. I couldn't be cheeky if I tried right now.

This afternoon I attended a rally on the opposite side of the State Department building that we stood early yesterday morning. One speaker said that it doesn't matter if we cured cancer today or if we had the ability to end all wars because the effects of climate change on humanity will cause food and water shortages, death of species and villages, and violence if we do not continue to act like our lives depended on it. Because it does.

I went to jail yesterday along side 48 other activists who believe the same things I do:

  • President Bush does not represent my voice on climate change.
  • The world needs to move on with real global warming solutions without the United States.
  • and finally this issue is so important to my life that I am willing to put my liberty on the line until there is real action on climate change.

 

Renee.  

Comments:

Permalink shameonyou [Visitor] on November 04, 2007 at 01:45
Just curious. Have you done any research into data regarding GW, or just eaten what ICAC inc. fed you. The planet DOES have huge issues. Collapsing fisheries, rainforest destruction,dsertification. Being "against global warming" is being against springtime. The planet is returning to its pre-ice age condition which saw vast inland seas ( we are the dopes who built on flood plains...)temperate climes at the poles ( the ice / snow hasn't been there forever- it is a remnant of the UN- natural cold period caused by atmospheric particulates ie ash, dust from meteor strike blocking the sun. You literally are protesting nature itself. The evidence is there is mountainous quantity. CO2 was at its all time highest during the ice age as there was a marked decrease in photosynthesis due to arctic conditions. CO2 doesnt CAUSE warming! But God forbid you think for yourself. That is what they don't want. As long as you are busy fighting nature, you won't notice what's going on elsewhere ie; your being robbed of your liberty and constitutional rights. But hey, if the wool fits , wear it. PS. Your liberty is not on the line because you had a slumber party in jail. Your liberty is on the line because you give it away. Read some Thomas Jefferson. Stop being led. Use your head. Think for yourself. Its refreshinng. Then help the rainforest. THATS the killer of Earth. ( Also consider why you are judging me negatively at this very moment...thats what they want you to do-silence dissenters.) Feel free to contact me if you disagree based on your OWN research. The ICAC is not science based and has a vested interest in the "fight" against GW.$$$
PS. I have spent MANY nights in jail for stepping in for women who were being abused by men and evening out the odds - actually, stacking them in the womens favor. That is a cause I will gladly give up some hours of freedom for anytime.
Heres to your liberation!

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