A Bad Day for a Global Warming Protest - HUMAN EVENTS

The festivities kicked off with a “prayer vigil” at the gathering site, a small park close to the Capitol. A few dozen warmists congregated to pray to a highly inclusive, non-denominational, non-judgmental higher spirit for the well-being of the planet and the safety of the civil disobeyers. To the slow beat of a drum, the warmists turned in all four directions, and then to the sky and to the ground, each time reciting a mawkish prayer and “offering the tobacco to Mother Earth.” This surprised me, since burning tobacco emits carbon, but I shrugged it off.
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McDonald’s was left unmolested and even got some extra business from a stream of protestors who put aside their anti-capitalist animus to warm up with a nice cup of hot McDonald’s cocoa.
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There were a lot of over-excited proclamations, including a declaration from one activist that coal plants are “the most dangerous thing in the world.” I wonder how the families of the 32 million people worldwide who have died of AIDS feel about that statement. Or the families of the 1 million people who die of malaria every year.
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It seems that the organizers’ legal councilors had a slow day, since multiple police officers confirmed to me that there was not a single arrest.

The organizers proclaimed the event a success. “We have locked down all the gates to this plant,” one protest leader informed the cheering crowd through a bullhorn. This may have been true, but the boast omitted one fairly important detail: all the plant workers were already inside. Business at the plant, in fact, continued throughout the entire protest. So in the end, the warmists failed to prevent even a single gram of carbon from wreaking havoc on the atmosphere.