A rush hour peace vigil in Brunswick yesterday gathered many of those waging the Conversion Campaign aimed at getting nearby Bath Iron Works to convert to building climate crisis solutions.
Regular Bruce Gagnon observed that the many, many honks and friendly waves from passersby probably reflected growing concern that the U.S. is threatening attacks on Iran.
Besides the humanitarian catastrophe of another war, everyone on Earth should fear the greenhouse gas pollution that skyrockets when the Pentagon attacks.
That problem is already extremely bad.
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| Source: "Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War" Neta C. Crawford, Boston University June 12, 2019 |
Indeed, the Pentagon appears to be a major factor crashing the life support system for humans and others on the planet.
Youth Climate Strikes leader Anna Siegel spoke at a news conference for the Conversion Campaign yesterday where told us that, when she blew out the candles on her 13th birthday, she thought: I have 11 years left.
Eleven years is an estimate of the interval until human extinction sets in. That is, if we continue down the path we're currently on.
It is for Anna and all the children and grandchildren that we will be in the streets outside General Dynamics' BIW shipyard today with this message:
#ClimateEmergency!
#convertBIW
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