Do these people not use oil products in there day to day lives? What’s more important, not opening any new oil or gas wells or running out of fuel and people dying because they cannot heat their homes?
We had brutal 40C temperatures this year. That is going to get much worse, for sure, in the coming decades because of the failure of industrialised countries to reduce their CO2 emissions since Kyoto in 1990.
But governments (and it is government scale urgency and [action](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58130705) that is required) can still make a big difference in the future trajectory of global heating by funding and supporting policies that reduce CO2 emissions.
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Do these people not use oil products in there day to day lives? What’s more important, not opening any new oil or gas wells or running out of fuel and people dying because they cannot heat their homes?
Good for them. What the protestors are saying needs to be heard. The planet is fucked, huge climate-caused migration is coming while fossil fuel lobbyists have worked hard for over 30years to minimise efforts to reduce fossil fuel use and we have a government who effectively bans on shore wind, spends a pittance on cycling infrastructure, continues to [subsidise fossil fuel extraction](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/23/uk-has-biggest-fossil-fuel-subsidies-in-the-eu-finds-commission)
and [gave up on insulating homes](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/19/where-britains-journey-to-insulation-went-wrong) in 2013 (despite home insulation being a very effective CO2 reduction strategy)
We had brutal 40C temperatures this year. That is going to get much worse, for sure, in the coming decades because of the failure of industrialised countries to reduce their CO2 emissions since Kyoto in 1990.
But governments (and it is government scale urgency and [action](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58130705) that is required) can still make a big difference in the future trajectory of global heating by funding and supporting policies that reduce CO2 emissions.
Look at this [chart](https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/) to see how utterly unprecedented the current levels and rate of rise of atmospheric CO2 is.
https://i.imgur.com/MYAS5ec.jpg
So, just to be sure… Is this the kind of protest that people around here are fine with? i.e. non-violent and pestering Westminster?
Maybe they should have been even more localized… if they had only blocked the palace surely they wouldn’t have been arrested
¯\_( ツ )_/¯
Im sure all their homes are powered by rainbows and unicorn farts.
During the summer recess
Basically just pissing off people going about their private business