Excerpt: "Extreme energy will only make our extreme weather crisis worse. We're still in for many years of it even if we end the extremist energy push, but stopping that push would be a huge step forward toward the clean, jobs-creating, renewable energy future completely possible."
Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo and documentary filmmaker Josh Fox attend a panel on hydraulic fracturing at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center on November 30, 2011 in New York City. (photo: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)
Stop the Frack Attack: Major Action in DC July 28
19 July 12
ark Ruffalo and Josh Fox have just released a short video about why it is so important for people to come to Washington, D.C. on July 28 to take part in the Stop the Frack Attack demonstration.
They're right! It is! Join them!
Mark and Josh talk about two major reasons to come to DC and why we need to move as rapidly as possible away from ALL fossil fuels. It is especially urgent to get off the extremist-produced, especially dangerous energy like fracked gas, oil from the tar sands, the Arctic and deepwater offshore drilling, and mountaintop-removed coal.
Extreme energy will only make our extreme weather crisis worse. We're still in for many years of it even if we end the extremist energy push, but stopping that push would be a huge step forward toward the clean, jobs-creating, renewable energy future completely possible. And that hopeful future can happen much more quickly than most people think, if we get serious.
July 28th can be a very big marker in our continuing, urgent campaign for a renewable energy future. Thousands are already signed up, and the momentum continues to build.
July 28th can inject a different view of our energy future into the Presidential and other election debates going on in this Presidential election year. It will put candidates on notice who are running for office at all levels, from city councils in places where fracking is threatened or is happening up to the Presidency, that the movement against fracking is growing stronger and getting more organized. It will be a public manifestation of the broad support among the American people for wind, solar and other renewable energy sources to replace dirty and polluting fossil fuels.
And July 28th, it appears, is going to be a launching pad for stepped-up activity against fracking in the short term. Mark and Josh announce plans for a major action in New York August 25-27, and I know that plans are underway for a major action in September in Philadelphia, Pa. several weeks later outside a location where the gas industry is gathering for an annual conference.
Usually you never know exactly when, where and how an historic movement for badly-needed change is going to come about. But it sure looks like we're on the verge of one on this issue. Let's make it so!
Ted Glick is the National Policy Director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. Past writings and other information can be found at http://tedglick.com, and he can be followed at twitter at http://twitter.com/jtglick.
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All the 'practical' blather about the limits of alternative energy, conservation techniques etc emboldens the greasey oil/coal cartel.
It gives no quarter nor acknowledgement to putting a billion or two per year in changing the mindset of those who without conscience or consideration toss all into the landfill, burn electricity like it is infinite, fill storage unit after storage unit, drive obsurd gas guzzlers and remain transfixed by their carefree avenues of sloth, over consumption and mindless pursuit of the 'next cool thing'.
As a man/woman thinketh so shall he/she be...change the individual, change the mass mind, change the whirled.
Seriously...brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.
Since big oil has been suppressing new energy sources for years, we don't even get a chance to learn much about them before they are once again squelched.
I don't know the answers, but to me such a thought experiment like that seems like a good way to begin to pull back the curtain. I do believe that the changes would be profound and would last indefinitely. In many respects it can certainly tell us why the USA is so goddamned powerful(Oil!), and why in the last 50 years the Saudis have such disproportionat e influence(Oil!) on the Western world, almost to the same level of influence as the Banking and Financial sector(controll ing money is easier than controlling dictators!) has on Western Governments. On many levels this is more concerned about global control than finding new energy and new energy sources would mean a profound transfer of power...
the unfortunate thing is with CNOOC's purchase of Chesapeaks assets and the building of export terminals in Baltimore and Alaska concurrent with pipeline in alaska...... freaking......t he product is over time to be exported....2 years or so is the time line on Baltimore I dimly recall.....
Nat gas here 2 or so is 12 or so in europe and other places of demand.....as coal is already being majorly exported(even more now due to a Peabody contract.....we will pay the price environmentally but not get the reward......pri ces of nat gas wil rise significantly over five years....
Want to stop this thing.....iniit iate legislation to inspire a export ban of nat gas....stopped dead in its tracks it will be.....supplies from present sources being more than ample for the US....it is for export this thing is being majority pushed by the industry, and why they need so many sites.
US right now...gas wells are being capped..there is not the demand....two years from now.....is why they are proceeding.
And why china CNOOC has stake.
Can't even one of these corporate synchopants called congresspersons think this thing through and offer legislation.... china is after all the new made up enemy is it not???
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