Can Mass Civil Disobedience Save Our Planet?

A quiet revolution is taking place: it’s happening on the streets around us, why, it’s even being televised into our living rooms.

Last night, the UK’s main broadcaster aired “Climate Change: The Facts” during prime time TV. Starring the country’s “natural treasure” David Attenborough, the veteran broadcaster solemnly warned that “our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change,” is upon us.

After tiptoeing around the subject for years, both Attenborough and the BBC took off their gloves and threw down the gauntlet: “It may sound frightening, but the scientific evidence is that if we do not take dramatic action within the next decade, we could face irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies. What happens now and in these next few years will profoundly affect the next few thousand years.”

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