Stephen Bede Scharper teaches environmental studies at the University of Toronto.
"These protesters are pointing us to a new “moral economy” concerning the Earth itself. Their actions suggest our present economy, based on ecologically rapacious oil and gas extraction, is ultimately ecologically unsustainable and ethically unacceptable. In future years, when “geocide” is deemed a crime, these protestors may well be remembered not as criminals, but as champions of a life-filled world."
Full article: Civil disobedience goes green.
See also Ottawa Action for information about a protest scheduled for Parliament Hill on Sept. 26.
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