The crowd at the Fleet Center was made up largely of young people, a mixture of college graduates, budding socialists, eager environmentalists and others who were carrying the banner for all manner of progressive causes.
Of course, China will continue to grow with cheap, dirty coal, to arrest over-eager environmentalists and to strip African forests for wood and minerals.
So why was Sherman the environmentalist eager to plant lawn signs for a politician calling for cuts in the EPA?
Eager for the environmentalist vote, Mr. Cameron promised in the 2010 election campaign to abandon the project, after it had been fought through to approval after years of hearings and court challenges.
In fact, climate science will probably remain easily misconstrued by alarmists of all stripes -- both environmentalists eager to stoke public fears and antiregulatory activists and politicians fearful of any impediment to unbridled enterprise.
"The figure of the uncontacted native jungle dweller" is a fiction created by environmentalists eager to halt oil and gas development in the Amazon, Peru's then-President Alan García said in 2007.
Coal is now vilified — outside Texas, at least — as contributing to climate change and emitting pollutants, and environmentalists are eager to shut down '70s-era coal plants.
Environmentalists are eager to see more collaboration between large, public wastewater utilities and private sector or other companies that can help them curb methane emissions, while generating renewable, and low emissions energy.
Meanwhile, many men – pro-choice, anti-racist, environmentalist – will be eager to join us in opposing a Trump agenda.
And the meeting pitted environmentalists who were eager to explore alternatives to fossil fuels as a source of power against environmentalists who wanted to preserve the dramatic bluffs surrounding the Montauk Lighthouse.
