Comment: Climate Change and You – Flagpole Magazine: Colorbearer of Athens, GA

Climate Change and You

If you believe manmade climate change is taking place, what responsibility do you have to act? If you believe the increasing intensity of droughts and storms is part of the disastrous pattern predicted by climate scientists, what should you do?

From Aug. 20 to Sept. 3, more than 1,250 people chose to protest—and be arrested—outside the White House in Washington, D.C. The sit-in was the largest display of civil disobedience in the United States since the end of the Civil Rights era, and it marks a significant shift in strategy among environmental advocates who believe the country and the planet are about to cross a point of no return.

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