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Climate Activists Target Asia-Pacific Summit in Australia
Agence France Presse via Common Dreams
SYDNEY – Climate change activists staged a break-in at an Australian power station Monday as a pattern of guerrilla-style raids emerged ahead of a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders in Sydney.
The protest came as already draconian security measures were boosted a day ahead of the arrival in Sydney of US President George W. Bush, who was expected to be greeted with a flurry of angry protests. 0903 01
Four environmental activists chained themselves to a coal-carrying conveyor belt at the Loy Yang power station in the southeastern state of Victoria, just a day after a coal ship was targeted in a port near Sydney.
The power station, which provides nearly a third of Victoria’s electricity, reduced output for five hours before three men and a woman were cut free by police and arrested, a spokesman said.
A spokeswoman for the activists, Michaela Stubbs, said several more protests were planned against the fossil fuel industry to highlight the need to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
The demonstrations were designed to send a message to the 21 leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum meeting in Sydney this week, she told national radio.
(3 September 2007)
Greenpeace ad on climate change: angry kid addresses the rest of us
Greenpeace, YouTube
Youtube submitter Mailllo writes:
This is a shocking video attempting to make people to wake up and realize the crimes they commit against their own future, their children’s future. One of the best I’ve ever seen.
(2 September 2007)
Recommended by JMG in a post at Gristmill who writes:
I have mixed feelings about this powerful ad. I’m curious to know how it strikes others.
BA:
I think this is nothing compared to the anger that is going to be unleashed, as people start to be affected by climate change. Real political movements for change are powerful and messy.
We are going to be confronted by young people, famine victims, and flood refugees, and they will ask us …. What did you do?
Two-third of Canadians polled say global warming is ‘very serious’ problem
Don Butler, CanWest News Service
OTTAWA — Canadians are now expressing alarm about climate change in greater numbers than in any developed nation except France, according to a poll released Tuesday.
Unless politicians respond with aggressive action to curb greenhouse gas emissions, they risk paying a heavy price, warns the president of the polling firm that commissioned the survey.
New data from the Environmental Monitor research program show that two-thirds of Canadians now rate climate change as a “very serious” problem, up from 57 per cent last year.
That ties Canadians with France and Mexico for fourth globally in their level of concern, according to parallel polling in 20 nations done this year by GlobeScan.
(5 September 2007)
Nobel Prize winning economist Schelling explains need for post-Kyoto agreement (Video, no transcript as of Sept 5)
OnPoint, E&E TV
With several international climate change meetings scheduled in the coming months, the debate continues over how best to sculpt a post-Kyoto approach to addressing climate change. During today’s OnPoint, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling explains why a voluntary approach would be most successful — but why President Bush’s plan for setting “aspirational” goals will not work. Schelling, currently a professor at the University of Maryland, explains how the Marshall Plan model can provide a structure for an international emissions agreement. He also talks about the need for the United States to pass its own climate legislation in order to facilitate the post-Kyoto process.
(4 September 2007)
