Following on from the Climate Camp protest at Kingsnorth power station in Kent, earlier this year, and the successful defence of six Greenpeace activists who scaled the chimney in an effort to shut down the power station, Greenpeace have launched their ‘Give Coal the Boot‘ campaign.
Burning coal is the single greatest threat to our climate. Yet the government is about to give the green light to a new generation of coal-fired power stations. We need to make sure this doesn’t happen. Put your boot on the map now and join the growing movement across the UK urging Gordon Brown to GIVE COAL THE BOOT.
Choose a footprint and enter your details to register your protest and have your footprint show up on the interactive map – a graphic representation of peoples’ objections to more coal-fired power stations in the UK.
Reinforcements on the way
In a bid to bolster the campaign and highlight the damage caused to the environment by burning fossil fuels, the world famous Rainbow Warrior is winging her way to our shores to help persuade Gordon Brown to ‘Give Coal the Boot‘.
She’s due to arrive for a two week tour sometime this month and you’re invited aboard to meet the crew. There’ll be open days and campaign seminars as well as a journey along the Kent coastline to highlight the threat of climate change.
Keep up with her progress on the coal ship tour blog. And join the movement NOW to ‘Give Coal the Boot‘!
8 comments… read them below or add yours now
Give coal the boot and……what? As far as I can see, Greenpeace has no viable alternative to fossil fuels. It’s all very well to talk about renewable energy sources but in cost and scale terms we are just not at a point where they can replace our current fossil- or nuclear-based energy. I agree that’s a goal we might work towards and that we should seek to cut down on our carbon-producing emissions but, in my humble opinion, giving coal the boot is, for now at least, an unrealistic piece of nonsense. Sorry to disagree with you!
Thanks sykeel. Your comment is appreciated but perhaps you missed the point. The issue here is the government’s plan to build more coal-fired power stations in the UK. Greenpeace is seeking to highlight the issue with this campaign and does offer a viable alternative. As you say, it’s a “goal we might work towards” and cutting our carbon emissions is crucial. We each have a part to play in that.
I agree with Skyeel. It’s completely unrealistic!
Thanks Peter. So are you suggesting that we just keep building more coal-fired power stations – pumping millions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere – at the expense of renewables?
Why not? They will in China and won’t be bothered about a Greenpeace campaign.
Peter, there’s a saying that goes something like “All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men [er, people] to do nothing”
I think we should cut down on the amount of coal we use because it is dangerous to mine, it is a fosill fule and fosill fuels run out, plus coal takes millions of years to form so you get the point
Selina McGee grade 7 Slakes Creek State School
Thanks for your comment Selina. Wise words.
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