Yesterday, 99 students and youth were arrested on Parliament Hill calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to reject the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline. You might be asking yourself, why would young people with their whole lives ahead of them risk arrest? First, there’s the obvious fact that there is perhaps no more clear and pressing danger to young people than climate change’s promise of adulthood in a hellish dystopian future. Second, civil disobedience is a powerful way for youth to counter the immense lobbying power the fossil fuel industry is bringing to bear on Justin Trudeau’s government. Over the course of a month, during the lead up to the Paris climate talks, Suncor met with the government 12 times.
CAMERON FENTON – HUFFPOST – OCTOBER 25, 2016.
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