i look forward to how effective this is and that the respective government teams respond in a timely way
“Parliament declared a climate emergency four years ago but the Earth keeps getting hotter quicker”
Why hasn’t the small island of Great Britain with 0.8% of the world’s population fixed the world’s temperature yet?
Clowns.
The UK has done more than any other country in the world, we’ve gone further and faster. Our emissions have been slashed, we’re about to ban gas boilers and petrol and diesel cars from 2030, we’ve closed down coal power stations. We’re at the forefront of wind power in Europe. But because everything isn’t done exactly perfectly to their liking, the protestors still act as if the government has done nothing at all.
The post below is mistaken too. The UK doesn’t produce 3% of global emissions but more like 1%. So even if the UK sank into the sea and our entire emissions fell to zero, global emissions would fall by at most, 1%. Why is the UK being singled out even when we are doing more to reduce emissions than anyone else? I don’t get it. Our overall emissions are tiny and our per capita emissions are among, if not the lowest of any major developed country.
So everyone who doesn’t support XR in their “pointless protests” will wholeheartedly support this one right?
This protest actually looks really good, and it’s also super family friendly. For everyone here that has something pretty negative to say, and who lives in or near London, I’d recommend just going down. They have a whole list of events on their website.
I’m very interested in sustainability but historically haven’t really loved a lot of the direct actions as they seem to only turn the public off, so I’ll be heading down on Saturday morning to see what it’s all about
Not a thing in mainstream media about this. How convenient
I do wonder if the first phase was about name recognition. The viral video of that fat woman shouting at them in a Range Rover was everywhere for a while.
Now they’re going after the right people the media are talking about them.
I do support them, but I was muttering under my breath at them when I was trying to drive around London yesterday.
Now it’s time to ignore them since they are not disrupting anything and the politicians are free to not give a flying fuck…
Good luck to them. It sounds like they’ve learned who the real problem is now and I hope they get some results.
I always think that a protest is fine provided it is in proportion to the number of protestors who turn out.
If they can get 30,000 people to turn up, they are entitled to cause a modest amount of disruption in a city centre somewhere. Good luck to them. If they can get a million people out, they are entitled to bring central London to a halt for a few hours. Even better.
It is when six protestors close the Dartford bridge for two days that I think the law should step in to prevent it. They shouldn’t be allowed to make up for lack of support by deliberately causing excessive disruption.
The next step for me would be for one of these organisations to map out exactly what needs to happen globally, and how what we do in the UK relates to that. Because the entire population of the UK could switch to eating tofu and cycling everywhere, it will make fuck all difference if the BRICS nations don’t do the same.
As a member of extinction rebellion I’d like to thank you all for your kind support in this thread. We didn’t want to do this protest originally as we wouldn’t be stopping stroke victims from getting to hospital by blocking the roads.
That said we’re looking forward to this protest as it’s nice and roomy, don’t worry about the possible poor lighting we’ve got some lights that we can plug into our diesel gen… wind turbine.
Now don’t worry if you don’t see me there right away I need to pop down the shops in my daddy’s BMW X5 Turbo diesel but I won’t be long as it pulls like fuck.
See you all soon so we can all save the planet together!
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i look forward to how effective this is and that the respective government teams respond in a timely way
“Parliament declared a climate emergency four years ago but the Earth keeps getting hotter quicker”
Why hasn’t the small island of Great Britain with 0.8% of the world’s population fixed the world’s temperature yet?
Clowns.
The UK has done more than any other country in the world, we’ve gone further and faster. Our emissions have been slashed, we’re about to ban gas boilers and petrol and diesel cars from 2030, we’ve closed down coal power stations. We’re at the forefront of wind power in Europe. But because everything isn’t done exactly perfectly to their liking, the protestors still act as if the government has done nothing at all.
The post below is mistaken too. The UK doesn’t produce 3% of global emissions but more like 1%. So even if the UK sank into the sea and our entire emissions fell to zero, global emissions would fall by at most, 1%. Why is the UK being singled out even when we are doing more to reduce emissions than anyone else? I don’t get it. Our overall emissions are tiny and our per capita emissions are among, if not the lowest of any major developed country.
Here are the figures.
https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/
https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2022
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So everyone who doesn’t support XR in their “pointless protests” will wholeheartedly support this one right?
This protest actually looks really good, and it’s also super family friendly. For everyone here that has something pretty negative to say, and who lives in or near London, I’d recommend just going down. They have a whole list of events on their website.
I’m very interested in sustainability but historically haven’t really loved a lot of the direct actions as they seem to only turn the public off, so I’ll be heading down on Saturday morning to see what it’s all about
Not a thing in mainstream media about this. How convenient
[People try so hard to delegitimise XR](https://twitter.com/UnityNewsNet/status/1649417124417339393)
And all I can think when I see the pushback is that [“and yet you participate in society”](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/259/257/342.png) comic
I do wonder if the first phase was about name recognition. The viral video of that fat woman shouting at them in a Range Rover was everywhere for a while.
Now they’re going after the right people the media are talking about them.
I do support them, but I was muttering under my breath at them when I was trying to drive around London yesterday.
Now it’s time to ignore them since they are not disrupting anything and the politicians are free to not give a flying fuck…
Good luck to them. It sounds like they’ve learned who the real problem is now and I hope they get some results.
I always think that a protest is fine provided it is in proportion to the number of protestors who turn out.
If they can get 30,000 people to turn up, they are entitled to cause a modest amount of disruption in a city centre somewhere. Good luck to them. If they can get a million people out, they are entitled to bring central London to a halt for a few hours. Even better.
It is when six protestors close the Dartford bridge for two days that I think the law should step in to prevent it. They shouldn’t be allowed to make up for lack of support by deliberately causing excessive disruption.
The next step for me would be for one of these organisations to map out exactly what needs to happen globally, and how what we do in the UK relates to that. Because the entire population of the UK could switch to eating tofu and cycling everywhere, it will make fuck all difference if the BRICS nations don’t do the same.
As a member of extinction rebellion I’d like to thank you all for your kind support in this thread. We didn’t want to do this protest originally as we wouldn’t be stopping stroke victims from getting to hospital by blocking the roads.
That said we’re looking forward to this protest as it’s nice and roomy, don’t worry about the possible poor lighting we’ve got some lights that we can plug into our diesel gen… wind turbine.
Now don’t worry if you don’t see me there right away I need to pop down the shops in my daddy’s BMW X5 Turbo diesel but I won’t be long as it pulls like fuck.
See you all soon so we can all save the planet together!