
hats off to the 10,000 protesters in front of the White House who got Obama to delay the decision on the Keystone Pipeline till 2013 ! Way to go ! It shows that demonstrations of popular disgust with the way Mammon is destroying our earth can do something. Let’s hope this is only the beginning of the movement toward the Big Shift toward a more empathetic civilization that needs to be made if there is any hope for the planet and all us (flora and fauna included).
here is 350.org’s statement on the victory that it is primarily reponsible for : http://www.350.org/en/about/blogs/breaking-news-keystone-rejected-we-won-you-won-thank-you
But as David Brower said, victories for the environment are never permanent, but losses are. The next thing is to go after the Oil Sands themselves.