http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/44223-self-immolation-as-the-world-burns-an-earth-day-report
Sunday, April 22, 2018By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report
A man watches the Thomas Fire in the hills above Carpinteria, California, December 11, 2017. The Thomas Fire in California’s Ventura and Santa Barbara counties has consumed more than 230,000 acres over the past week making it the fifth largest fire in the state’s history. (Photo: Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images)
“Pollution ravages our planet, oozing inhabitability via air, soil, water and weather,” lawyer David Buckel wrote in the email sent to The New York Times just before he performed an act of self-immolation at a park in Brooklyn recently. “Most humans on the planet now breathe air made unhealthy by fossil fuels, and many die…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I really felt bad about this poor man doing this. He had done so much.
You’ve got to be the constant thorn in the side, and the burr under the saddle to get anything done.
That’s too bad. He was right about the mess we’ve made, but I don’t think his sacrifice will help. The effects we’ve already had reveal the doom that’s coming. And we can’t even begin to count all the animals immolated in the fires climate change is causing.
A good read, and even gives me hope –
“Cities have of course endured a reputation for much of the industrial era as a blight, the stinking antithesis of conservation.” (but read on:)