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In reply to the discussion: He said "make me do it" so they showed up to make him, but were arrested. [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)This pipeline is a great place to draw a line in the tar-sands. It would be an excellent signal that we are changing business-as-usual and are serious about fundamentally changing our energy policies to avert climate catastrophe. Humanity is at the crossroads, and we must choose. The pipeline is the wrong choice, seems pretty obvious.
Making changes to accelerate our move away from fossil fuel would be made easier, not more difficult, by rejecting this pipeline. It sets the cultural context, it says we are serious about this and it has to change, a change which has to happen yesterday! It isn't some stash of political coins that gets exhausted by any effort to bring change. It's a social/political context which gets modified towards sane environmental policy by stopping or doing all we can to stop this pipeline. It's literally an investment in our future, not some wasted expense of effort.