George Monbiot: The stakes could not be higher. Everything hinges on stopping coal | Comment is free | The Guardian

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:13:39 -0000

As soon as I have finished this column I will jump on the train to Kent. Last year Al Gore remarked: "I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants." Like hundreds of honorary young people, I am casting my Zimmer frame aside to answer the call.

Everything now hinges on stopping coal. Whether we prevent runaway climate change largely depends on whether we keep using the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. Unless we either leave it - or the carbon dioxide it produces - in the ground, human development will start spiralling backwards. The more coal is burnt, the smaller are our chances of future comfort and prosperity. The industrial revolution has gone into reverse.

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Four nations in race to be first to go carbon neutral - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:32:43 -0000

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George Monbiot: The stakes could not be higher. Everything hinges on stopping coal | Comment is free | The Guardian

Four nations in race to be first to go carbon neutral - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent