Capitalism seems to have survived the march against climate change, despite the best efforts of the legions of socialist workers to predict its downfall through the sale of slightly soggy newspapers. Perhaps next year?
And the March initiates a thousand networking events in pubs across London, as key campaigners from diverse organisations bash heads as to where the next battle should be.
Even the mainstream behemoth of a coalition that is Stop Climate Chaos, is looking for that key intervention, that totemic campaign that will ramp the issue further up the agenda.
So to drunken conversations in the Synergy Centre about direct action and iconic pictures that shook the world. Should that totemic campaign be new coal (Kingsnorth), aviation (perhaps Heathrow), a return to the climate change bill for Valentines Day or something arcane such as feed in tariffs.
Yet I can’t imagine how we will tackle climate change without getting to grips with aviation, with binge flying, with love miles, and with the addiction of NGO supporters to just another fix.
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