Topcat the very nature of what it is will be a barrier to most people, I don’t know you but strongly suspect your anecdotal experience is not very representative of the masses. I don’t know what is sustainable about creating a temporary tent cities, it’s certainly not something everyone could do.
As someone mentioned you could hold this event in a hotel or University, perhaps with spin-out events like the Convention of Modern liberty and tied into a range of mass media engagement and a series of BBC programs. Jeez if it was done seriously you would probably get some movers and shakers on board and actually contribute to some serious policy development.
Instead people are getting trained about how to get arrested, and engaging in an orgy of self-righteousness. The green movement needs to grow up stop and stop playing the radical. Getting high in fields will change nought. People need to realize that real change is not about having a party or pissing about in a field it’s about spreadsheets, difficult planning meetings where complex issues are played out, engineering solutions, playing the mainstream media, influencing people’s aspirations, public meetings, handing out leaflets in the rain.
Most people see the Climate Change and they see a bunch of hippies, what does climate camp mean to your average person whose life is about work, family, having a drink, watching some sport reading a paper and watching the telly? Fuck all is the answer and that’s the problem.
