Climate Camp 2008, Kingsnorth, Kent, UK

Image by ClimateCamp website

In this Age of Stupid, there can't be many stupider plans than those of the British government to build not one but seven new coal-fired power stations. Last year Al Gore remarked: "I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants." Well there will be if this year's Climate Camp is anything to go by. Running all this week at Kingsnorth in Kent, it culminates in a day of mass action on Saturday August 9th, aiming to shut down the existing Kingsnorth power station.  You can find out how to join in the action here. As George Monbiot has written, the stakes could not be higher.