This year's Earth Day will be as angry — and clever — as the one that started it 50 years ago (via latimesopinion)
century. And it will be diverse: The environmental movement has morphed into the environmentalmovement, largely led by the people who’ve paid the biggest price for our collective inaction.
But of course civil disobedience is high on the list of things that don’t make sense right now: The people already in our jails are at high risk from coronavirus; all they need is a bunch of newcomers potentially tracking in microbes from the outside.Going online has some advantages . And we’ll be able to see each other, around the globe — a kind of Zoom call for the planet.
Because we now have the technology required to make sure no one has to breathe filthy air again. In the last 10 years, engineers have driven the price of sun and wind power down below coal; there’s no reason for a power plant to belch particulates. In the last 10 years, engineers have built electric cars that are elegant and affordable; there’s no reason for morning and afternoon peaks of pollution.
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