Cease Fossil Gas Soiled Cash takeover of US: The headline I wrote for the occasions of Wednesday seventh November 2012 may effectively have been written for this yr’s US elections the place Trump’s complete profession in politics has been supported by fossil gasoline corporations.
Large lobbying by these corporations and a deliberate marketing campaign of misinformation and pseudoscience, financing research which solid doubt or contradict the scientific consensus of worldwide warming occurring due to fossil gasoline use has resulted in US governments not taking efficient motion in opposition to these polluters.
In keeping with the chairman of the U.S. Senate Funds Committee, the Republican Social gathering is managed by the fossil gasoline business and in addition to big subsidies additionally will get “the license to pollute at no cost.”
Beneath the Democrats the US has lastly taken some restricted motion with guarantees to section out fossil gasoline use however the authorities in 2022 nonetheless equipped round $15 billion a yr in subsidies to the business.
The protest in 2012 was calling on President Obama “to face up in opposition to the lobbying, soiled cash and media lies funded by the Koch brothers and different fossil gasoline corporations.” He didn’t.
You may learn extra in regards to the protest, which started exterior the London places of work of the Koch Brothers, Koch Worldwide in Fenchurch St on the coronary heart of the Metropolis of London with an enormous banner ‘KOCH BROTHERS – DIRTY MONEY – FUNDING CLIMATE DENIAL’ on My London Diary.
A excessive wind made it troublesome to carry up the banner whereas the protest continued with speeches. However the massive banner definitely attracted an excessive amount of consideration, although quickly they needed to take it down because it grew to become unimaginable to carry. However there have been loads of placards displaying heads of distinguished US proper wing politicians and media commentators, every with their names and a few ridiculous quotations associated to local weather change, in addition to these of Obama and Romney and the 2 Koch brothers, together with some smaller banners.
There was one other massive banner of the facet of the open-top bus which the Marketing campaign Towards Local weather Change had employed to take the protesters to the US Embassy.
I went with them for what was most likely essentially the most uncomfortable bus journey of my life. It was chilly within the sturdy icy wind and the bus bumped and lurched ridiculously.
It was laborious to maintain standing as I took footage and I needed to maintain on with one hand on a regular basis, utilizing the opposite to take footage. There wasn’t an excessive amount of gentle and getting sharp footage at 1/30 f4 (full aperture for my wideangle zoom) was troublesome with the bouncing and vibration of the bus.
Someway I managed, and Phil Thornhill managed to to make use of the megaphone, a minimum of throughout among the halts in visitors. However I used to be more than happy (and really frozen) after we arrived and bought off the bus in Grosvenor Sq..
Police at Grosvenor Sq. tried to herd the protesters right into a small pen in a darkish nook, however they refused and had been lastly allowed to go in entrance of the locked primary entrance gates, with these faces and their quotations peering over the hedge from the gardens behind the primary actors and audio system.
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