Don’t even think about it
Co-founder & US Campaigns Director at 350.org, cyclist, banjo player, itinerant traveler.
It sounds crazy. But just as Thoreau and other radical abolitionists were willing to push the boundaries, so climate activists must be willing to say and do “crazy” and “radical” things—like put their bodies in the way of coal shipments, or demand that universities divest from fossil fuel companies—not because it’s politically expedient, but because it’s morally imperative. When the truly sane courses of action—putting a heavy price on carbon, leaving fossil fuels in the ground, massively scaling up clean energy, urgently seeking the necessary global commitments—lie outside the limits of political “realism” and “reasonable” debate, it’s time to ask who has the firmer grip on reality and reason.
— Thoreau’s Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry | The Nation
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This is a short multimedia project I played with about 6 months ago, but never managed to post here.