What if ‘the lights went out’ and nobody noticed?

 

(Climate Camp - August 2008)

 

Hoards of brave men and women are amassing at Climate Camp for a bit of police harassment.  The police harassing the people, that is, let’s be clear. Never before have so many “people like us” decided they must go, whoever the “us” may be.  Not the usual suspects atall (officer.)

 

Even left and right unite.  But the ‘overactive policing’ tactics will backfire. The fear factor is only increasing my resolve to attend. (I travel down today.)

 

This is a good thing.  At this point in history anyone can see (even without the lights on) that fossil carbon is best left undisturbed.

 

A nice little twist, mostly overlooked, is that the thousands at the camp who consider the climate crisis far more vital than the dratted “lights going out” will all be fine this week, in the event of a power cut! The camp is crammed full of renewable energy sufficiency. Perhaps it is the camp technology that ‘those in power and addicted to it’ wish to confiscate.

 

Dave Hampton

Marlow

Bucks