DISOBEDIENCE

DISOBEDIENCE

The Rise of the Global Fossil Fuel Resistance

41 minutes 2016 8.60/10 based on 10 votes

The weather is increasingly going to extremes. It’s either the hottest it has ever been or the coldest. There’s either a devastating drought or sudden flooding. Farmers are having to move because they can no longer grow crops on their lands and scientists are urgently asking for the decrease of greenhouse gas emissions.

To the inexperienced, it might seem like this is a case of sudden climate change. However, there is evidence of people warning that this would happen almost a hundred years ago.

Recently world leaders came to together to decide the fate of the planet. They used fancy terminology, and made big promises, but in the end it just ended up being more of the same: no compromise, no legal action, no heartfelt reason to change. The politicians simply didn’t step up.

A movement called Break Free started taking action across six continents, targeting major fossil fuel projects with the message that oil, gas, and coal need to be kept in the ground.  All over the world, people are coming together with urgency. They are unwilling to sit by passively and wait for the politicians to make up their minds while the planet is being destroyed. People are taking matters into their own hands and doing what needs to be done.

There was a time when in the Philippines, for instance, it was illegal to distribute flyers exposing the situation with fossil fuels. But things remain the way they are because citizens allow it. The moment people started to stand up and stop allowing the planet to be destroyed, they removed their consent. Evil thrives when good people do nothing and change happens rapidly when people take action.

Throughout history it’s clear that most changes in society come from ordinary people who are joined by a common purpose and who are passionate for their objectives. They share the same vision and are willing to sacrifice for the accomplishment of their goals.

In Canada, for instance, many First Nation people are dying and suffering from strange diseases and conditions because 85% of their diet comes from the river and those rivers are being heavily polluted by tar sands spills. The quality of water is getting progressively worse. The government has tried to solve the problem by throwing money at them, but these people are ready and willing to fight for what is rightfully theirs.

Civil disobedience is a powerful tool when it comes to social justice. Movements are formed when people decide to take the law into their own hands. However, civil disobedience is but one tool in the activists tool box. And even though people all over the world are taking action, more needs to be done. Who will do it?


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5 responses to “DISOBEDIENCE”

  1. Dave Dso says:

    WE NEED TO HIT THE PEOPLE BEHIND, you think stopping the tools a day or two will do anything ? get the idiots working for those industry, you ever seen a shovel dig on it’s own ? me neither.

  2. Juergen Meixner says:

    I’m a Vegan, and I think this is disobedient enough.

    Denial of cannabis by Prohibition ‘law’ premeditatedly inflicts suffering, blindness, and, in many instances, death. Those who maintain any use of life-saving cannabis to be “illegal” should be regarded and treated as perpetrators of the gravest of crimes, and deemed unfit to hold any public office in a democratic society.

    The Report collates Empirical Evidence and the Findings of Fact of official clinical studies which exonerate cannabis and vindicate all cultivation, trade, possession and use. The Report establishes massive ulterior money-motive and prejury behind prohibition; and indicts government.

    The Report presents irrefutable Legal Grounds for Restoration: Relegalisation, Amnesty & Restitution.

    THE REPORT. CANNABIS: THE FACTS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE LAW ISBN 9781902848204.

  3. Olmo Hinojosa says:

    iTS FOR US AND OUR CHILDREN . WE NEED TO PLANT THE SEED OF CONSCIENCE IN THEIR MIND SO THOUOGH THEIR EYES WE FIND HOPE. CAUSE ITS WHAT WE DO TODAY THAT MATTERS FOR OUR FUTURE.

  4. Raven Shakti says:

    I feel Mother Earth is like a beautiful, powerful She-Wolf. Humans, for the most part; one of Her beloved children; have become parasites; fleas, sucking away Her blood, Her breath, Her very life-force. But one of these days…
    Mother Earth, beautiful Gaea, will rise and shake of those fleas! “Enough! How do you like me now?” She will say.
    It looks like it’ll be sooner than later. I’m so glad She knows I love Her, and we’re on the same side.

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