"We have to fight, finally, without any guarantee that we are going to win. We have waited late to get started and our adversaries are strong and we do not know how this is going to come out. If you were a betting person, you might bet we were going to lose because so far that’s what happened, but that’s not a bet you’re allowed to make. The only thing that a morally awake person to do when the worst thing that’s ever happened is happening is try to change those odds....No guarantee that we will win, but we will fight side by side, as long as we’ve got."
Bill McKibben
from his address to the Power Shift 2011 conference--of some 10,000 mostly young people gathered to organize for action to confront the Climate Crisis-- in Washington this week. Leaders met with President Obama, and thousands demonstrated at the White House and in front of the Chamber of Commerce. On a day when Tea Party rallies across the nation fell flat with a tenth of the numbers they got last year, the media did not bother to cover the 10 to 15 thousand participants in these rallies.
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