I was feeling low about the mounting evidence of global warming and of political inaction, so I asked a friend on the IPCC. Is there any hope? He replied that 'when the crunch comes and the crisis is imminent the human race in the past has risen to the occasion…. An example being, the last world war.'
So how bad does it have to get?
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Experts and activists such as James Hansen, Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein are now saying there will need to be mass civil disobedience to bring about massive divestment and to keep coal in the ground.
Klein says the word is (non-violent) resistance on multiple fronts. It's time because time is running out, for our children and grandchildren to inherit a habitable earth.
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