Emma Thomson Compares Climate Change to Apartheid in South Africa

Speaking Sunday in London, actress Emma Thompson compared climate change to Apartheid:

"We can boycott events, sports teams and media programing sponsored by fossil fuel companies.  We can demand that the advertisements carry health warnings.  We can organize car free days and other platforms to build broader societal awareness. We can encourage energy companies to spend more of their resources on the development of sustainable energy products, and we can reward those companies that demonstrably do so by using their products to the exclusion of others. Very important, just as we argued in the 1980s that those who conducted business with apartheid South Africa were aiding and abetting an immoral system, we can say that nobody should profit from the rising temperatures, seas, flooding, human suffering, poverty caused by the burning of fossil fuels."