The Dirty Dozen.

Climate Campers are out and about, dashing around London, targeting their twelve "climate criminals" as well as having a stab at anything else that may be connected... step forward the World Wide Movement Against Globalisation(!).
Here are the 12 targets, the Dirty Dozen;
1. The Department of Energy and Climate Change .... could be doing more perhaps, but have to be politically astute and crafty to be able to get anything done to change the other eleven I'd say. Their recent announcements (see blog 17 July; Curing the Mischiefs of Faction) are bold compared to others yet are somewhat watery given the need.
2. The European Climate Exchange. Yep.... paper tiger that it is.
3 & 4. The Departments for Business and Transport.... absolutely.... failing to protect UK prosperity by neglecting, wriggling out of or diluting the policies that we need to ensure long term remedies for climate change and laying the foundations of alternative ways of sustainable living.
5. The Stock Exchange... obviously.
6. The Bank of England... yep.
7. The Royal Bank of Scotland... yep.
8. The Treasury..... they miss opportunity after opportunity to help ensure government is properly funded to be able to move forward in such a way as to put climate change at the heart of every department, short termism personified.
9. Heathrow airport... predictably.
10, 11 & 12. Shell and B.P. H.Q and the London office of E.ON.... right on!

All very well but I am a little concerned that the protesters on Blackheath this week need to become more effective. Not that they lack conviction, far from it, but that they target abstracts. Targeting institutions and phenomena rather than singling out individuals to act as the personification of a particular "evil" will always blur the message. Climate campaigners seem somewhat preoccupied with their relationship with the media and the police.
If we want to change the World then we need to be inclusive, engaging as well as challenging. The Climate Camp needs to become a symbol of climate change movement impacting on the public consciousness and ultimately on policy makers.
The Climate Campers need a set of achievable and well understood goals that those outside the camp can identify with. Making a case for why change is necessary and urgent. That's not to say it should'nt be radical and revolutionary... none of your watered down decisions here. Liberals protest, radicals rebel, liberals become indignant, radicals become fighting mad and go into action. Go Campers, Go!