Al Gore Calls for Civil Disobedience Again! Denounces “Clean Coal” as “Nonexistent”
Last year in two different print publications, The New York Times and Rolling Stone, former Vice-President and Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore called for young people to commit civil disobedience to halt new coal fired power plants and climate change. 
Voicing his opinion at the Clinton Global Initiative, Gore said for the first time in public that we are at a point in our world’s history, and in need of such immediate action, that if you are a young person it’s time for civil disobedience.
Sitting on a panel with Queen Rania of Jordon, the CEO of Coca-Cola and Bono, moderated by Clinton himself, Gore further denounced “Clean Coal” technology as “nonexistent” and called lifting the moratorium on coal shale mining “Insanity.”
Last week, almost a dozen activists with Rainforest Action Network, Blue Ridge Earth First!, Rising Tide, and SDS were arrested after blockading Dominion Resources’ new coal-fired power plant construction site in St. Paul Virginia.
Gore has called for rings of young people to stop bulldozers from building these climate polluting behemoths, the climate movement is taking him at his word.
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October 26th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
[...] Instead, the recently, enacted, near-trillion-dollar bailout of the financial sector by the federal government of the United States included almost $2.8 billion in tax credits for coal operators. Such an evident disregard for the future survival of life as we know it has prompted responsible leaders such as Al Gore and James Hansen to advocate civil disobedience. Over the past year or so, Gore has done so in the pages of the NY Times, Rolling Stone and most recently, in person, at the Clinton Global Initiative. [...]
November 6th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
[...] posted by Sparki in RAN General on October 9th, 2008 The bully pulpit is a great thing. It inspires me when someone like Al Gore gets on his soapbox about young people doing civil disobedience at coal plants to stop global warming. Over the past year or so he’s done it three times in the pages of the NY Times, Rolling Stone and most recently, in person, at the Clinton Global Initiative. [...]
February 16th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
[...] 11.24.08 » The Understory – Rainforest Action Network: Al Gore Calls for Civil Disobedience Again! Denounces   [...]