Is the climate change movement splintering? (some are reasserting their radical roots)

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/feb/25/climate-change-movement

Is the climate change movement splintering?

Climate change activists are regrouping post-Copenhagen – and some are reasserting their radical roots

http://risingtidenorthamerica.org/download/rtna_climatemovementisdead.pdf">The climate change movement is dead, long live the climate change movement! was the proclamation made last week by http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/category/front-page/">Rising Tide North America, as green campaigners around the world begin coming to terms with the switchback ride of the last three months.

"A particular model of dealing with climate change is dying. It is revealing itself before the world as nothing more than a final scramble for the remaining resources of a planet in peril," states a quote from Naomi Klein at the beginning of the document, before stating:

Many in the climate movement have grown all too cosy with the status quo. The 'bold' action they call for will result in the privatisation of the air, to be divided up by mega-polluters. Their demands for carbon neutrality seek to offset our problems onto poor countries while the rich keep burning and consuming. Those who still cling to the old climate movement have committed themselves to a sinking ship.

It comes out against a backdrop of restlessness, as activists take stock of where they have been and where they are going. Now that the climate talks in Copenhagen have failed, the activists who campaigned inside and outside the Bella Centre are subsiding naturally into two groups – those who didn't want a deal in the first place, and those who did.

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[phantom power]

1. "Men argue. Nature acts."

--Voltaire

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2. Say it ain't so

A schism in the Holy Church of AGW? Who will lead the Reformation...Martin Doomther?