Demonstrators Demand 'Clean Energy Revolution' on Eve of Dem Convention

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/07/24/demonstrators-demand-clean-energy-revolution-eve-dem-convention

[font face=Serif]Published on Sunday, July 24, 2016 by Common Dreams
[font size=5]Demonstrators Demand 'Clean Energy Revolution' on Eve of Dem Convention[/font]
[font size=4]'When it comes to climate change, there’s precious little time for lesser evils; the physics—as scientists are quick to tell us—has put humanity on a deadline.'[/font]
by Jon Queally, staff writer

[font size=1]"We need to stop climate change now," said one demonstrator. "Not tomorrow. Not next week. Now." (Photo: Philadelphia Online/TwitPic)[/font]

[font size=3]With plenty of overlap between them, both climate justice campaigners and supporters of Bernie Sanders held marches and rallies in downtown Philadelphia on Sunday, making their presence and political demands heard a day before the Democratic National Convention officially kicks off.

Under a banner calling for a "Clean Energy Revolution," the climate march put a focus on key shortcomings when it comes to the Democratic Party's commitment to addressing an increasingly hot planet.

Mark Schlosberg, national campaign director for Food & Water Watch, which spearheaded the protest with the backing of nearly 900 other local and national organizations, said neither party has shown the necessary urgency when it comes to dealing with the crisis. "Together," Schlosberg explained in a blog post ahead of the march, "we are sending a clear message to our elected officials: we demand a future powered by clean, renewable energy, not one that depends on dirty, polluting fossil fuels."

The hashtags #CleanEnergyMarch and #OurClimateRevolution were both being used by organizers, attendees, and supporters of the cause:

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[drray23]

1. i agree with the fact we need to do something

against climate change as do most thinking people. I question however why these people decide to protest at the democratic convention instead of the republican one. Last time I checked the climate deniers are on the side of the gop.

[OKIsItJustMe]

5. The DNC is in Philadelphia

One of the primary objections is against “High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing” (“fracking”) much of which takes place in Pennsylvania, in the Marcellus Shale.

http://www.ecowatch.com/pennsylvania-fracking-water-contamination-much-higher-than-reported-1882166816.html

[msongs]

2. how many of them drive cars, fly in airplanes, recharge their toys w/ coal generated electricity nt

[leftofcool]

4. All of them.

[Ghost Dog]

6. They do so because that's the way this society operates,

and they have to live in it (not everyone can choose to be a backwoods or remote island recluse).

It's no longer a matter of preventing climate change, it's a matter of preparing to cope with those changes and their consequences.

An economic system that depends on increasing supplies of energy & resources (& waste) to fuel increasing compound-rate growth in GDP, as the current system does, is the source of the problem not the solution.

[NNadir]

3. They don't look like an especially bright group. They probably think "Green" is digging cadmium...

...and wild catted lanthanides in China.

The problem is general scientific illiteracy, and it's pretty damned bad on our side as well as theirs.