Fighting Fossil Fuels All the Way to Prison

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4.7 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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How far would you go to make your voice heard on climate change? College student Tim DeChristopher disrupted an auction for oil and gas leases - and landed in prison. Georgia Hirsty and other Greenpeace activists suspended themselves from a Portland bridge to protest an oil rig bound for the Arctic. Such extreme activism gets headlines, and sometimes results. But is radical civil disobedience the most effective weapon for change? Or is collaborating with corporations to encourage sustainable practices a better way to make a difference? Guests: Tim DeChristopher, Founder, Climate Disobedience Center Georgia Hirsty, National Warehouse Program Manager, Greenpeace Brendon Steele, Director of Stakeholder Engagement, Future 500 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	How far would you go to stop climate change? I'm Greg Dalton, and today we're looking at climate activism as an extreme sport.
0:42.0	So on the bridge, before I stepped over, knowing that Shell couldn't drill as long as we could
0:48.2	prevent the Fenica from leaving Portland was a pretty inspiring moment, and fortunately it was dark, and I couldn't
0:56.0	see how far away the water was.
1:01.4	In 2015, Georgia Hirstie and 12 other Greenpeace activists suspended themselves from a Portland
1:07.9	bridge to prevent a shell oil rig from traveling to the Arctic.
1:12.2	Tim de Christopher spent 21 months in federal prison for disrupting an auction for oil and gas
1:17.6	leases near Canyonlands National Park in Utah. He didn't hesitate when he raised his paddle
1:23.3	to bid on leases he didn't have the money to buy. But if I don't do this, and 30, 40 years down the road, I'm meeting a young person who
1:32.4	was born into a broken world, and I knew that I had an opportunity to possibly do something
1:37.1	about it and I didn't take it.
1:38.6	Could I live with that?
1:40.4	Extreme acts of civil disobedience get splashy headlines and may help move the needle on public
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