WHY CAN’T WE GIVE UP FOSSIL FUELS?- ASK A SMOKER!

George Marshall- August 2001

1. Climate change is a direct result of our addiction to fossil fuels. We cannot imagine life without fossil fuels. If our supply is cut off we "brown out" or even "black out"

2. We suspend all moral standards to get a fix. We are prepared to carve up conservation areas, overrule all basic human rights, and even carpet bomb countries to maintain the flow of fuel.

Environmental groups need to accept it is a dangerous con trick

Mark Lynas Friday July 27, 2001 The Guardian newspaper,

http://www.guardian.co.uk

The last day of COP6.5 climate talks in Bonn was interrupted by activists protesting that the deal being signed would only serve the interests of big business and reinforce global inequality.

Plenery meeting disrupted in Bonn - carbon trading

All talk and no action..
from - www.climateconference.org

16.7.01 - 23.7.01

There was an unprecedented level of protest throughout Britain during and following the Bonn conference - evidence of a growing national movement against climate chaos!

WEEK OF CLIMATE ACTION- JULY 16th-23rd JULY

Noisy climate protest in Turkey broken up by police.

CLIMATE PROTEST IN TURKEY

NOAHÀS ARK AGAINST GLOBAL CAPITALISM!

On the 20th of July, Social Ecologist Transformation made an action in Istanbul, in solidarity with the Climate Summit in Bonn. The action was in Istiklal Street, in one of the main and crowded squares of Istanbul. The other groups in Anarchist Platform, Anarchist Youth Federation and the Masterless.

The Rising Tide climate change tour travelled around the UK, visiting 11 places and spreading information on climate change, inspiring action, and instilling hope that things really can get better, not just wetter.

stopping climate chaos with local action

The rising tide…

Rivers bursting their banks once, twice, and more, across the UK this winter; giant cracks in Antarctica's ice sheets; the 1990's was the warmest decade in the last 1000 years - the climate is in chaos.

Article in Red Pepper Magazine all about what Rising Tide is up to

The Tide is High [article from red pepper magazine]

- risingtide tour now ended..

Is it safe to come out then? Is it really all over? No, I don't just mean the election. I mean the long winter of heavy skies - the end of March this year marking the wettest 12 months in the UK since records began in the mid- eighteenth century - and the seemingly non-existent spring.