Thanks Anne, for a great article.
It's impressive for its passionate and lucid descriptions of what is happening.

Well done! Readers let us rejoice that this young leader has such a beautiful spirit of generosity! In living authentically as an environmental campaigner, Anne O'Brien is like "Mahatma" (Great Soul) Gandhi.

Gandhi's political genius was to win popular support for being truly human, humble and without conceit or vice. Thereby he made a mockery of the 'civilising' British Raj. This was the spear which toppled the last excuse to perpetuate colonial rule in the Indian Subcontinent.

In 1930 Mohandas Gandhi led hundreds of local Indian people on the Salt March, concluding at the sea and making salt in a deliberate act of civil disobedience. The unreasonable reaction to this act by the British police there at the beach at Dandi, was to take him and other salt-makers into custody. We may have never heard of this injustice.
However Gandhi had ensured the presence of the world's media. Their cameras and pens meant that the world could observe and draw their own conclusions. And they concluded the said prohibition was the most ridiculous example of the injustices of colonial rule, wherein the ordinary folk had to buy expensive things which they once had been free to make for themselves.

Anne O'Brien pronounces war on the tyranny of toxic polluting, and good on her. Her reasoning is propelled by emotion, just as Gandhi's asceticism drove his political action.
And Gandhi, like Anne was emphatic on the point that all human beings have responsibilities to each other and to our world. We and future generations deserve to be free from oppressive, 'civilising' colonialist and rich establishment people.
Let us walk to Dandi with Anne.

Oh, brother. The flower children have dropped by.

The original thread of this topic to put it briefly is
There are healthier ways of doing things so why not do them.

The false economics of coal based electricity production will be paid for by our grandchildren, there are better ways of doing things so why not embrace them.