Demand Action on Climate Change

I haven’t been involved in a super-abundance of protest marches through the years, though I did carry a sign calling for the end of the war in Vietnam in the early 1970s, and, last summer, I took my wife and daughter downtown with me for a demonstration against the Keystone XL pipeline.  In any case, I’m considering joining this one: Bill McKibben, who leads the environmentalist group 350.org, has invited you and me to “A Call to Arms: An Invitation to Demand Action on Climate Change” to be held in New York City next September 20/21.  I can’t think of a place I’d rather be.

McKibben is 100% correct when he reports that we’re living at a time when the greatest crisis humankind has ever encountered is unfolding all around us.  Our reaction?  Open up tons of new land to oil drilling and coal mining.

We could sit around pretending that everything is fine and a business-as-usual approach to energy policy is acceptable.

But it would be wrong.