Cleared: Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law

The Independent- Environment

By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
Thursday, 11 September 2008

The article, “Cleared: Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law” by Michael McCarthy concerns itself with the recent verdict of a British judge, who decided not guilty for six Greenpeace fighters who damaged a power station near Kings north in the U.K.. The judge accepted the justification of the six fighters that they tried to damage the power station at Kings north in order to prevent further damage to the environment, because this power station was one of the first to start using coal fired plants, which would cause even more carbon emissions than any other fuel. It had been their main goal to contribute to the stop of global warming and the CO2 production. In the past few weeks Kings north had been the target of many other environmental protests. The damage caused by the 6 Greenpeace fighters was about 35.000 pounds.