Extinction Rebellion or how not to win an argument

[Jmoan]

[Easy-X]

[Polarbear]

How do SUV's, as opposed to any other vehicle make pollution worse? Latest ones are hybrid or even totally electric.

My boat chucks out more crap than they do.
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[Easy-X]

I think it harks to ppl buying things they don't need purely for status reasons. More and more people = more and more cars. The sensible thing would be to gently encourage ppl to get smaller cars and motorbikes.

As I've often said I admire the Japanese Kei cars concept: tax breaks for something more modest. It's not so much about the numbers (CO₂ per miles) as starting a cultural trend.
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[arry]

[wr6133]

[Johnnythefox]

The Citizens ass voted for motorway speeds to be lowered to 60mph

[Easy-X]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

The Citizen's Assembly stuff seems to be mostly virtue-signalling, vague ideas about banning stuff. (Not enough banning to satisfy Extinction Rebellion's anti-everything policy though. ) They don't have ideas on how to fill the resulting gaps. Ironically it's technological advancement fuelled by a thriving economy which brings solutions yet a lot of the suggestions impair that economy.

Their ideas about encouraging/educating others to stop what they're doing is interesting.

[bhinso]

I hear that someone from the ER protests has been arrested for vandalising Churchill's Statue.

What Churchill has to do with climate change is a mystery to me.

Unless the screaming SUV driving jet setting fashion setting fast food eating energy crunching phone/app using XR masses are objecting to pollution from all the cigars he smoked.

Maybe they're trying to form a Woke Alliance with BLM, although I suspect the latter aren't too bothered about the environment.

[bhinso]

This is a good video to watch if you can cope with 10 minutes of Piers Morgan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olzym5auIiI

Sir David wrote an article about the dangers of climate change for the Sun, which no one read, because XR blocked off the media lol.

Worth seeing to get a look at the co-founder of XR. She could have saved on the coloured highlights, thus saving the environment. What a hypocrite!!!!

[Polarbear]

[bhinso]

That video I posted with the XR co-founder was useful education for me.

I get the impression the motif of XR is "Government is bad, all Governments fault, Government should be forcing us all to ride horses and put on sack cloth etc etc.."

The problem as I see it is that, whilst I can understand Developed Countries should take the lead in this, our Carbon footprint has stayed roughly constant over the last thirty years (Energy saving measures offset by increased use of appliances, phones, etc.)

But in DC's like China, India, etc. pollution is rampant and rising.

XR are powerless on this as it just isn't woke to tell DC's what to do.

[arry]

[doggone]

*Sustainable* is almost always a prime indicator of BS statement - totally meaningless greenwash word.

[arry]

[wr6133]

[Ste]

[chickenstrip]

Shoot her. We have no choice.
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[bhinso]

Aaaaaand she's a feminist. Never would have guessed.

The one that really got me was:

"I own about 50 coats (a little excessive perhaps but at least I’m passionate about them?!)"

50 coats??? Simplify man.

[arry]

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/extinction-rebellion-climate-change-barrier-cenotaph-remembrance-day/


They really do know how to win friends and influence people don't they.

I wonder if a few veterans might turn out at their next 'rally'.

[Easy-X]

How serious do you take climate change?

"Serious enough to spit on the graves of war dead."

Sickening.
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[bhinso]

[Lord Percy]

The bloke who did it is ex-army.

Also hilarious to see this: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8941231/XR-protester-sparked-outrage-Cenotaph-stunt-calls-Remembrance-Day-little-ritual.html

TV presenters who presumably have zero military experience, getting offended on behalf of those who do have military experience, after man with military experience describes 11/11 event as a "little ritual".

So who's right and who's wrong, and who has the right to be most right about who's wrong ?

[Easy-X]

One Squaddie going full retard does not validate anything that Extinction Rebellion stand for.

People who think virtue signalling is more important than actually doing something are always wrong.
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