"Direct Action Gets the Goods: Lone man single-handedly cuts UK Carbon output by 2%" « It’s Allegedly Getting Hot In Here

The £12m defences of the most heavily guarded power station in Britain have been breached by a single person who, under the eyes of CCTV cameras, climbed two three-metre (10ft) razor-wired, electrified security fences, walked into the station and crashed a giant 500MW turbine before leaving a calling card reading “no new coal”. He walked out the same way and hopped back over the fence.

All power from the coal and oil-powered Kingsnorth station in Kent was halted for four hours, in which time it is thought the mystery saboteur’s actions reduced UK climate change emissions by 2%. Enough electricity to power a city the size of Bristol was lost.
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Should “climate man” ever show up, he will be feted for what activists say was the most daring individual action of the year. “We have no idea who he is - but we really want to know. Everybody’s asking ‘where were you on Friday November 28′,” said Ben Stewart of Greenpeace, one of six people arrested for climbing the 76 metre (250ft) chimney of the Kingsnorth station early last year but found not guilty of criminal damage in November. “We would never act anonymously,” he added.

Global warming: Stansted--how not to mobilise the masses

Britain’s energy minister also faces some tough calls on whether to approve construction of new (and dirty) coal-fired power stations. Mr Miliband’s instincts are said to lie with those who say that all new permissions must carry an obligation to retro-fit the stations with carbon capture technology. But Gordon Brown, Mr Miliband’s boss, has been heard to mutter that he is paying too much attention to CO2 emissions and not enough to energy security.
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Whatever one makes of the intent, such zealotry is doomed to failure. Self-flagellation does not sell. If keeping the planet cool is seen to be the project of affluent middle-class do-gooders the masses will mobilise all right – against it.