Extinction rebellion

Blue in Munich said:
Apparently not;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-49972467

But I don't dispute your description of them.
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I think the biggest sentence in that article "it has put the children off Extinction Rebellion" is the most telling. If they want the next generation to carry the message on these are exactly who they need to be engaging with and now they've lost a whole community of goodwill and many others will sympathise at the work the children did being ruined and ignore Extinction Rebellion as a just cause
 
China produces a lot of hydro electricity. Mainly by damming huge rivers, displacing millions of people, and ruining the local agriculture. I am not sure this would work so well in the UK.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
They have put their logo on top of some old countryside graffiti...……….:unsure:
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Really. I guess if they knock Stonehenge down that's ok?

Interesting that they are paying their "volunteers" (see their own website) No wonder rent a scumbag has latched on. I wonder who is giving them them funding for this? People interested in the planet, or people interested in disrupting London?
 
They ridiculed Einstein (relativity was absurd), Pasteur (diseases were caused by germs), Marconi (wireless communication), Wright Brothers, Fulton...and so on.
Now they are ridiculing the likes of Greta Thunberg and David Wallace-Wells (The Uninhabitable Earth).
Today I'm reading 40 places in Northern Europe have recently registered their highest temperatures.
Governments around the world have ignored the climate science for 3 decades. Their only mission is to grow the economy and to hell with the science.
 
So they glue themselves to buildings and vehicles. Why do the police free them and remove them? Leave them stuck in place. Lets see how long they can put up with underwear full of their own waste or the cold and wet of the night.
They want to suffer for the cause, so let them.
 
IanM said:
Really. I guess if they knock Stonehenge down that's ok?

Interesting that they are paying their "volunteers" (see their own website) No wonder rent a scumbag has latched on. I wonder who is giving them them funding for this? People interested in the planet, or people interested in disrupting London?
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Reports suggest donations running at £45k/day !!
 
  • The world population continues to rise
  • Demand for energy continues to rise
  • Oil and gas are running out and will increase in price
  • Future generations will have to get energy from somewhere else.
  • Renewable energy is cleaner, sustainable and reducing in price.
In my opinion, it's not a matter of if but when we change and I would argue that, fortunately for future generations, it has already started.
 
bobmac said:
  • The world population continues to rise
  • Demand for energy continues to rise
  • Oil and gas are running out and will increase in price
  • Future generations will have to get energy from somewhere else.
  • Renewable energy is cleaner, sustainable and reducing in price.
In my opinion, it's not a matter of if but when we change and I would argue that, fortunately for future generations, it has already started.
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I admire your drive for electric cars and renewable energy Bob, but that isn’t the biggest problem and focusing on it won’t solve the issue.
The World as a whole is using far to many of its resources for the huge mainstream of tech and new products the consumer wants.
Energy is just a cog in the wheel of the World. The World is wanting new cars every 3 years, new phones every 18 months, new golf club every year or 2......the list is endless and always the new products are sold and made more cheaply so the consumer will buy it and not repair the old item because they’re told it’s “inefficient” and parts made deliberately cost prohibitive compared to a new product.
I work in the white goods industry, and when Instrated a Zanussi washing machine was around £180. 37 years later you can get a washing machine for that if not a fraction more. You can tell me it’s more “efficient”, but when it breaks you won’t be able to repair it without serious expense, if at all. So you buy another cheap washing machine.
How does that mindset work?
I’ve seen perfectly good machine scrapped because the repair bill is about a half of the cost of a new machine, but I know the old machine is better made, more robust, more repairable and will probably actually last longer than 5he new cheap machine they will buy.

I accept the climate is changing, and things need to change for everyone’s sake, but unless you take every one in every country along the same path at the same time you won’t alter the situation. It’s all very well protesting in country’s that allow free speech, it’s another thing getting countries that don’t allow it to change and that should be the target. We’ve already seen what one country can do to targets and goals with China and its illegal manufacture of CFC gases for their air con system that are being made and installed in huge numbers, the ozone hole in the Southern Hemisphere has increased markedly after years of shrinking, and the reason can be easily mapped.
Do you think the Chinese government is going to listen to those blocking streets in a few free speech cities in other countries? Of course not.
Anyway I’ve said my piece:)
 
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