December 26
GUEST: Robert Connors, founding member of “Community Advocates for a Sustainable Environment," co-founder of “Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline,” and founding member of “Community Advocates for a Sustainable Environment," talks about grassroots activism versus the neoliberal fossil fuel industry.Stop Fracked Gas Pipeline
Hard to kill a very bad idea like fracking. Hard if that idea is making a lot of money for some elite investors and unethical banks. That's the way it is, and most of us can see it quite clearly in this year of 2020 vision.
Nuclear energy had the same problem. Investors and banks poured money in, the governmental regulators looked the other way, and our media rolled over and died, like the animals around Chernobyl or Fukushima. Like the people.
In fact, petroleum has always attracted the worst of the worst when it comes to human scum. Whether they are polluting Africa, poisoning the atmosphere or buying up our politicians, these investor criminals have always been intent on destroying the world around them for their filthy billions.
People like Robert Connors eschew purple prose; they just organize their grassroots communities to keep the poisons out. They attend meetings, research scientific papers, write letters to the local editors, and sometimes get arrested for standing in the way. Can people like Connors stop the pillage of the world around us? Can they turn the clock back on our global warming end-times?
Join the picket line for your species.
