Leading climate scientists warn that dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions must begin immediately to avoid catastrophic climatic shifts, yet most policy proposals consist primarily of goals that are decades off. Fossil Fools Day brought about creative, and often confrontational, actions reflecting this urgency. Activists demanded a rapid transition away from fossil fuels and toward the localization of energy, food, and economic systems for a just, sustainable future.
www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org
In Brisbane, Australia, 40 people took to the streets marching from one Coal "Climate Criminal" Company to the next where speakers read a manifest of the crimes the company has committed. The companies were:
* Rio Tinto
* BHP
* XStrata
* BMA
* Peabody
* and the Queesland State Government for continueing to set policies encouraging these crimes.
More photos from our day at Flickr.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Fossil Fools Day 2008 photos
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Public purse props up fossil fuel industries
May 8, 2007
From Sydney Morning Herald
GOVERNMENT subsidies to some of Australia's electricity generation companies are so big they exceed the profits made by those companies, a report on energy and transport subsidies says.
Government support for the coal industry and coal-fired electricity is so generous that in some cases it has led to the construction of coal-fired power plants when other types of electricity generation would have been cheaper, the report by the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney has found.
Subsidies to fossil fuel energies, worth close to $10 billion, result in a serious market distortion, create an unfair disadvantage to renewable energy, and help increase greenhouse gas pollution, says the report, written by the institute's research principal, Chris Riedy, and commissioned by Greenpeace.
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