Mohamed Nasheed had the dream, and now he is in gaol

Mohamed Nasheed - he should be in Paris talking
 about the Maldives becoming carbon neutral,
 but deposed by a military coup, he is now in gaol,
 while dictators who replaced him have invited
the oil industry to drill on his island nation.

One of the world’s leading climate campaigners is missing from the UN climate summit in Paris, because he is sitting in a prison cell after being deposed in a military coup. Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was a key voice at the 2009 UN climate summit for island nations threatened by rising sea levels.

“Nasheed promised to take his whole country carbon neutral by 2020. Instead, the dictators running it now are inviting the oil industry in to drill,” says Democracy NOW!‘s guest Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org. “If you want to think about irony, it doesn’t get much better than that.”

Read the EcoWatch story - “Bill McKibben: ‘Paris Summit is Missing One of the Great World Leaders on Climate’ Because He’s in Prison.”