Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants

reuters ^ | 9/24/8

[NativeNewYorker]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon.

The former U.S. vice president, whose climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Academy Award, told a philanthropic meeting in New York City that "the world has lost ground to the climate crisis."

"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," Gore told the Clinton Global Initiative gathering to loud applause.

[GingisK]

Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore...

And so the prize became phony and worthless....

[Boiler Plate]

Yes, but now there is a “Controlling Authority”.

[angelcindy]

he wants civil disobendience..the coal miners will give it to him...hes a jerk!!!!

[ASOC]

Oh Al, you big poof - the monkey wrenching thing is SO 60s...

Green is in - so Dear AL, clean up your own house first dears.....

[CottonBall]

he wants civil disobendience..the coal miners will give it to him...hes a jerk!!!!

And has never read Thoreau. The term civil disobedience was an action against a government for overstepping it's boundaries. It was used sucessfully by Ghandi and again by ML King. Trying to apply it to stopping construction of something doesn't really accomplish anything - except how little substance there is in the wackos doing it. And that they're hardly thinking it through - do they really want electric prices to double?

Besides, power plants today are suffocating with all the environmental regulations. It's amazing any of them can operate in the black at all.

[JoJo Gunn]

No doubt he's inspired by some Greenfece goons being acquitted in "Great" Britain.

 Thursday, 11 September 2008

The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Or just cut the power to algore’s mansion.

Same difference.