Post by Kahlessa on Apr 7, 2007 10:09:32 GMT -5
This is from Chuck Shepard’s News of the Weird in a column in the Washington Post on Dec. 26, 2005 (Sorry, don’t have the link)
“The State of Environmental Protest “
Thirty-five Greenpeace activists rushed onto the floor of the International Petroleum Exchange in London intending to paralyze oil trading on the day the Kyoto environmental initiative took effect, but several traders turned on them, punching and kicking the protesters until they ran for their lives. (One activist was hospitalized with a suspected broken jaw, another with a concussion.) Said one understated Greenpeacer, "I've never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view."
--Associated Press, Feb. 16; Times (London), Feb. 17
I sent this to Allen, who you might remember from the State of Fear discussions on the Crichton message board. He sent this reply:
“I had read that! The guys working the floor on that exchange are East Ender tough guys (kind of like the Chicago Merc floor guys...) who don't enjoy discussing philosophy over cognac!
I think it important to have an environmental ethic to counterbalance religious and economic system ethics... we had none for a long time. Like any ethical constructs, fundamentalism is a dangerous thing. I probably favor economic ethic more than I should, but it comes from the experience that you can lever a little into very much, and by that I mean an idea can grown quickly into something that feeds, houses, and clothes hundreds of families by providing the dignity of employment. If you are in it for the long run, you understand how important they are to the growth of a business.”
“The State of Environmental Protest “
Thirty-five Greenpeace activists rushed onto the floor of the International Petroleum Exchange in London intending to paralyze oil trading on the day the Kyoto environmental initiative took effect, but several traders turned on them, punching and kicking the protesters until they ran for their lives. (One activist was hospitalized with a suspected broken jaw, another with a concussion.) Said one understated Greenpeacer, "I've never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view."
--Associated Press, Feb. 16; Times (London), Feb. 17
I sent this to Allen, who you might remember from the State of Fear discussions on the Crichton message board. He sent this reply:
“I had read that! The guys working the floor on that exchange are East Ender tough guys (kind of like the Chicago Merc floor guys...) who don't enjoy discussing philosophy over cognac!
I think it important to have an environmental ethic to counterbalance religious and economic system ethics... we had none for a long time. Like any ethical constructs, fundamentalism is a dangerous thing. I probably favor economic ethic more than I should, but it comes from the experience that you can lever a little into very much, and by that I mean an idea can grown quickly into something that feeds, houses, and clothes hundreds of families by providing the dignity of employment. If you are in it for the long run, you understand how important they are to the growth of a business.”
