Posted on 04/21/2014 9:58:37 PM PDT by smokingfrog
A human oil spill spread across Dwinelle Plaza on Monday — a silent demonstration against fracking that is the first in a series of events to kick-start Earth Week 2014.
The day after the four-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, about 20 students, clad entirely in black, circled and sprawled around a miniature wooden oil rig covered with protest signs. Protesters wanted to illustrate the environmental effects of fracking by using human bodies as symbols of the devastation.
“An oil spill is a very visible and recognizable example of the corruption and destruction wrought by the fossil fuel industry,” said Jake Soiffer, a freshman and an actions coordinator at Fossil Free Cal, in an email. “The details — lying on the floor, wearing all black — bring out the serious, pressing nature of the issue.”
Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, involves extracting natural gas and oil by injecting water, sand and chemicals — many of them toxic — into underground shell rock.
The protest, which was planned and sponsored by Students Against Fracking and by Fossil Free Cal, comes a month after a similar demonstration on Sproul to pressure Gov. Jerry Brown into banning fracking in California. Like last month’s protest, students Monday aimed to raise awareness of fracking — but, this time, through a symbolic display.
Suspended from the 12-foot-tall small-scale oil rig was a list of chemicals involved in fracking operations that are injected into bedrock to break it up. At the foot of the rig were students, quietly reclining on the ground.
The protest then kicked into another gear as a student protester wielded a megaphone, chanting “leave the oil in the soil” and “hey hey, ho ho, Keystone XL has to go.”
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Oh they are SO serious.
And SO ignorant.
they’re too amazingly lazy to even stand up when they protest!!!!
These ones will be the first to starve (and rightly so)
I say make them live one week “fossil free” if that’s what they want for the rest of us.
And make them write a paper explaining the mechanics of how fracking works and how it’s a provable danger to anything.
This is what you get in the Humanist religion.
They have to define themselves and their righteousness by their advocacy.
Someone needs to start a campus movement to remove all fossil fuel products from campus.
No petroleum derived plastics allowed, just cellulose based... ooops, that gets the tree-huggers all riled up.
OK, just soy based.. organic non-GM soy (see if we can’t eliminate another food source) What? you say that will drive up the price of Tofu? Horrors!
So, no plastic cases for your iPhones/Pads/Pods.
No fossil fuel generated electricity for your Prius, or lights or A/C or heat or to charge your iPhones/Pads/Pods. It will have to be hydro (sorry, I forgot, you demanded the dams be removed), or wind (bird cuisinarts, you got to be kidding) or solar (bird toasters?) Well, there is always nuclear (”Aaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh!”)
No synthetic rubber for your Nikes, Crocs, bicycle tires. You will have to hoof it, barefoot. “The majority of the fabrics used to make the premium running socks featured on Sock Geek are synthetic, mostly petroleum based. With the interest in renewable resources growing, natural fibers such as wool and bamboo are becoming more common place.”
No, you can’t use wool (exploits sheep, plus they belch & pass gas) or Bamboo (you want to starve the Pandas!)
Ummm, about those clothes you are wearing....
[I am off to corner the market on caves... no logging or concrete (CO2, you know) for housing, Teepees require bison hides (horrors!), etc, etc, etc.]
Oh, and no paper for posters, leaflets or even books. (see “Tree-huggers”)
Also, no movies, “Since the late 1990s, almost all release prints have used polyester film stock.”
Have a Nice Earth Day!
Dihydrogen monoxide is deadly - if you are exposed to enough of it.
Brainwashed zombies with Shi’ite for brains.
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