Rallies against global warming in SF and beyond

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Rallies against global warming in SF and beyond

Heidi Benson, Chronicle Staff Writer

Saturday, November 3, 2007
(11-03) 17:32 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Anti-war politics and the environmental movement came together at a rally in San Francisco today.

The event in United Nations Plaza was among 1,000 planned nationwide as part of Step It Up 2007, a national day of action against climate change. More than 40 rallies were scheduled to be held in California alone.

Serious topics were treated with typically antic San Francisco style. On the plaza, where the words of the UN charter are carved in stone, the master of ceremonies stood at a microphone - wearing a gorilla costume without the mask due to the unseasonably warm weather - near where the charter promises "...to promote social progress and better standards of life."

Rally participants carried colorful signage - "Draft Gore" and "No Nukes! No Coal! No Problem!" Booths were manned by representatives of Greenpeace - who distributed free fruit smoothies made in solar-powered blenders - and other environmental groups, while the plaza was ringed by an array of demonstrations of various forms of sustainable energy, from algae to solar panels to electric cars to a truck that runs on walnut shells.

The guest-speaker, activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son died in 2004 in Iraq, addressed a crowd of about 100 or so.

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1. No nukes?

Let me get this straight. Ten versions of sock puppets are going to show up at an anti-climate change rally to chant "No nukes."

This is like Pat Robertson showing up at rally for the advancement of genetic research.

Nuclear energy is, by far, the world's largest form of climate change gas free primary energy.

By far.

In fact, anyone who is chanting "No Nukes" at this point is illiterate. It's 31 years after years after Amory Lovins, fossil fuel shill, published his illiterate article on how "renewables will save us" article. Five hundred billion tons of dangerous fossil fuel waste later, that anti-nukes still couldn't care less.

This is going to be as hallucinatory as a Grateful Dead concert, but far less sober.