Starving To Stop Global Warming

INDICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE-global warming happen often these days. The most recent is the super storm which devastated the Phillipines. Another is the extremely high level of ice melting in the Artic this past summer, forcing polar bears to abandon their ice islands and head for land in northern Canada, Alaska, and Russia. Polar bears are losing weight as the ice melts, and their incursion deeper into land causes problems, conflict with humans. These animals are in trouble because of global warming, say the polar bear biologists, and they should know. The Climate Action Network is a world wide organization of local climate change action groups. their major project is trying to get the world to make a serious effort to switch from fossile fuel to solar and wind energy. Good luck with that. They'll need all the help they can get. Just within the past few days Australia, Canada, and Japan have changed their national policy to become more friendly to fossile fuels. The United Sates is in the middle of a domestic oil, natural gas, and cola boom, even though prices have not decreased enough to really notice. The energy industry is a monopoly, not a system of free enterprise and the industry is able to keep us all addicted to its products. Some environmental activists are starting a hunger strike, intended to force the world to move away from fossile fuels. the only problem is, they hunger strikers don't have any organized plan, no definite demands which the world would have to meet in order to stop the hunger strike. That would seem to doom the protest from the start.The event is not getting much attention in the world media, the strikers are presumably getting hungrier and weaker, and yet the world does not seem predisposed to pay attention or listen to their point of view. How surprising. You can only hope that the hunger strikers don't starve to death, without getting anything in return for it. What good would a bunch of dead environment activists do for the the environmental movement?