So says Bonnie Frye Hemphill
Hey climate movement, you know what I missed about us that Power Shift pumped right back into me last week?
The awesome.
Yeah, flashmobs, pranks, swiftly organized warroom tweetups, late-night dance parties of 15,000. Remember that rebellious side of us, that “we won’t take the past for an answer†side of us? Remember that “join us because this is awesome and you’re invited†side of us?
We’re also proud to define ourselves as what we’re not: we are cooler than the fossil forces of the past. They rail on chalkboards; we rally with giant puppets in the streets. They are talking heads for septuagenarians; we are sneaking into shareholder meetings and embarrassing giant fossil fuel companies. They are snarking about crosshairs on Facebook from defensive compounds in Wasilla. We are 10,000 lithe young people fighting for our future while a crotchety old pitbull like Tom Donohue screams to get off of his front yard at the US Chamber of Commerce. We are in the West Wing interrupting the President of the United States of America to remind him that energy shouldn’t kill.
Wait, wasn’t interrupting the POTUS rude when Joe Wilson did it? Anyhow, read the whole article and “you know what I missed?” Yup, absolutely no mention of the climate morons pledging to live their lives to match their rhetoric. (Via Tom Nelson, who also catches the climate idiots from Power Shift driving 20 miles to protest….BP!)
