Careful observers of actions by environmentalists such as splashing paintings or gluing themselves to pavement recognize that the activists come from a long tradition of civil disobedience. The Transcendentalist American writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote an essay on civil disobedience, published in 1849, to explain his refusal to pay a tax to help More

The post Modern Climate Civil Disobedience appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

This post was originally published on CounterPunch.org.