A powerful piece today by Bill McKibben, Eddie Bautista of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, and La Tonya Crisp-Sauray of the Transport Workers Union Local 100 on why they will be marching in the biggest climate demonstration in history next week. It’s a classic document of our moment and ends this way: “We don’t march because there’s any guarantee it will work. If you were a betting person, perhaps you’d say we have only modest hope of beating the financial might of the oil and gas barons and the governments in their thrall. It’s obviously too late to stop global warming entirely, but not too late to slow it down -- and it’s not too late, either, to simply pay witness to what we’re losing, a world of great beauty and complexity and stability that has nurtured humanity for thousands of years. “There’s a world to march for -- and a future, too. The only real question is why anyone wouldn’t march.”
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:00:00 +0000
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