The People’s Climate March in London – Video and Pictures
London joined cities such as New York, Rio de Janeiro, Delhi and Lagos for the People’s Climate March, the largest ever global climate march, intended to put pressure on world leaders meeting at the United Nations to take action on carbon emissions.
Vivienne Westwood, Peter Gabriel, musician, and Emma Thompson, actor, right, at the start of the London People’s Climate March – Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters
Vivienne Westwood talks to Kye Gbangbola and wife Nicole, the parents of Zane Gbangbola, seven, who died from hydrogen cyanide intoxication as a result of recent floods in Surrey. Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex Features
The People’s Climate March reclaims the road near Temple. Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex Features
An estimated 40,000 people marched from Embankment via Whitehall to the Houses of Parliament. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/AP Images for Avaaz
The London march was one of many worldwide. Here the giraffes are demonstrating unity. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters
The People’s Climate March was a worldwide mobilisation calling on world leaders to commit to urgent action on climate change and 100% clean energy. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/AP Images for AVAAZ
I believe in what this movement is about and I’m going to be at the protest on the twenty-first but there’s one area in this movement/ ideology that in my mind has been really poorly thought out. There is no such thing as an alternative source of any energy to fossil fuels- no such thing as ‘clean energy’. Wind farms, solar panels, water power- whatever, all rely in some abstract way on power generated from fossil fuels. For example people use plastics to build wind turbines and solar panels derived from petroleum/ peak oil- nor do we use energy derived from so called ‘alternative energy sources’ to build these things to move parts around the world to get them to where we need them to be- we use petrol and diesel and other fuels to transport parts. Yes I think we need to cut down on fossil fuels as much as possible and even we turned to renewable energy sources as much as we could there is no way that we could generate power without in some way using fossil fuels (there’s nuclear energy but that poses more risks than it’s worth talking about- for instance if the human race were to go extinct tomorrow and there was nobody left to maintain our nuclear reactors they would all go meltdown rending all forms of life on earth impossible for at-least 100 million years). I think the answer is to stop using fossil fuels yes but I think that there’s something deluded in the belief that we can have infinite progress- that the earth is obliged to offer up some alternative to energy generated by fossil fuels.
Comment by Anonymous on 10/09/2014 at 9:39 pm
It is time to acknowledge that there IS a real alternative to Fossil fuels which has existed ever since N.Tesla was stopped by J.P.Morgan: FREE ENERGY ! Several excellent Scientists have been killed because they wanted to make this public.Keshe and his family were poisoned and thankfully survived.
Prof. Claus Turtur recently got in touch with me and sent me a link of his 2012 presentation to a large audience at an International conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e-w56VaO9A
during which he also displays a list of murdered Scientists. I greatly admire his courage and hope nothing like this will happen to him: He also just sent me the following info regarding his research into Free Energy:
In English:
Part 1: Basics, as generally known in Science (about 20 Minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeVQpK243ho
Part 2: Fundamental scientific proof for the usablility of the Zero-point Energy of the quantum-vacuum (about 30 Minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjdEOPhwLU8
Part 3: Construction of a powerful vacuum-energy motor for the free energy-supply of everybody. (about 60 Minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnz-Qjtz_I8
For all, who want to read text in a quiet mood and to see the pictures with high resolution: Here is the PDF (about 2.2 MegaBytes
It is so sad that Greenpeace and FoE don’t seem interested!
Comment by Ingrid on 01/01/2016 at 1:37 pm
To talk about Climate Change without referring to `geo-engineering’, financially supported by guys like B.Gates and R.Branson, is a waste of time as Chemtrails containing huge amounts of Aluminium, Iron and other toxic substances will kill the planet first. METHANE is the biggest threat and not CO2. Unfortunately here too Greenpeace ignores the facts:https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=what+in+the+world+are+they+spraying&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=64OGVt7qHoPlUobMlNAL
My own rainwater lab test here in London shows up alarming amounts of Aluminium but when I wrote to Greenpeace they weren’t interested! WHY? We need to connect the dots!
Comment by Ingrid on 01/01/2016 at 1:58 pm