Michael Marshall at HFAx2 has made a bold proposal to get the fight against global warming moving : a campaign of civil disobedience to achieve Proportional Representative in the electoral systems of the major Western nations most opposed to acting on climate change !
If the UK, Canada, Australia et al don't get proportional representation and soon, Michael says, the voices of politicians serious about combating climate change will never be heard in those nations' corridors of power.
And then the rest of Humanity will proceed to very quickly directly kill off many species and cook the rest indirectly.
His idea is not original he says.
It was raised back in the UK in the 1980s, but went no where - the campaign for PR wasn't passionate enough then for its advocates to welcome the thought of actually going to jail to promote the cause.
But today, the cause of PR is most critical to those voters all consumed with wanting to see a good number of really green-minded MPs in the world's parliaments.
Some have already gone to jail to oppose clear cuts or pipelines.
Doing the same to move PR forward would be doing something of global not merely local import.
Read his full post here.
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