Extinction Rebellion or how not to win an argument

[chickenstrip]

[Ste]

Leaving peple attached to whatever it is they've glued themselves to sounds like a plan.

I notice that whilst they the protest people were willing to glue themselves to a Docklands Light Railways train but didn't glue themselves to any tube trains.

In other news....

The Metropolitan Police has requested about 200 extra officers from neighbouring forces to help deal with the Extinction Rebellion protests in central London.

Since Monday, climate change demonstrators have occupied Waterloo Bridge, Parliament Square and Oxford Circus, which has now been cleared.

The Met said 750 people have been arrested and 28 have been charged.

Commissioner Cressida Dick said it had caused "miserable disruption".

"Every day we have had over 1,000 officers - and now over 1,500 officers - working to police these protests," she said.

"It's had an impact not just on the police but also on the public."

At about 17:30 BST, police were able to clear protesters from the centre of Oxford Circus, allowing for traffic to flow through normally.

Ms Dick said the force was still liaising with others and encouraging them to go to Marble Arch to carry out a "lawful protest".

"If you don't want to go to Marble Arch, then go home," she said.

"I've been walking about there today and I can assure you many people are very fed up."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47997531

[dransy]

I wouldn't mind but have seen the amount of shit all over the floor they have left ? Inc plastic bottles
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[chickenstrip]

[doggone]

Those behind this movement seem to be the same as earlier occupy protests, the climate issue is incidental, and being used as a tool to create instability and ultimately anarchy.

Involving school kids and old people (retired hippies ) is part of the plan so if/when the inevitable casualties start they hope to gain sympathy.

The XR movement is a dangerous eco-terrorist group, but the BBC and others who should see through it are almost supportive.

[doggone]

This chap is spot on.
Is the protesting being officially sanctioned as a way to enable draconian "emergency" measures such as savings grabs and martial law.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX-ALc2xFgM

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[Ste]

[Sister Sledge]

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[Ste]

Maybe Extinction Rebellion decided that doing their protests whilst Parliament were having Easter recess would give them the best chance of not being shut down immediately.

[Ste]

This morning they moved themselves to Parliament Square.

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I’m surprised we’re still here if you listened to the predictions of doom since I was born.

To coincide with earth day, here are a few environmental predictions made by "scientists" on earth day 1970:



1. The Global temperature will be 4 degrees colder by 1990 and 11 degrees colder by 2000.
2. Civilisation will end within 15-20 years.
3. 100-200 million people will be starving to death in the next 10-15 years.
4. Life expectancy (due to the effects of climate change) will be 42 by 1980.
5. In the next few years, population will outstrip any small increases in food supply.
6. By the year 2000 there won't be any crude oil left.
7. By 1980, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution which will block out half the sunlight.
8. Childbearing will soon be a crime.


...and for good measure Al Gore said in his remarkable piece of fiction, "An Inconvenient Lie":



9. (said in 2007, 2008 and 2009) the Arctic will be totally devoid of summer sea ice by 2013/14.
10. Sea level would rise by 20' in the near future. In fact global sea level is rising about 3mm globally per year, so a 20' rise at current rate would take until 3017.
11. The oceanic conveyor will shortly shut down. In fact in 2010, NASA found that there had been no slowing down over the last 15 years and it may have actually speeded up slightly.


It is also worth noting that when Al Gore was born, there were 7,000 polar bears in existence, today there are only 40,000 left!

Lastly, and just for good measure

A leaked report makes the extraordinary concession that over the past 15 years, recorded world temperatures have increased at only a quarter of the rate of IPCC claimed when it published its last assessment in 2007. Back then, it said observed warming over the 15 years from 1990-2005 had taken place at a rate of 0.2C per decade, and it predicted this would continue for the following 20 years, on the basis of forecasts made by computer climate models. But the new report says the observed warming over the more recent 15 years to 2012 was just 0.05C per decade - below almost all computer predictions.
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Global Warming? Nothing a Nuclear Winter couldn't fix.

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[Ste]

Have you noticed how many black people there are in the Extinction Rebellion protests?

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[Polarbear]

[Howling Terror]

We can't forecast the weather with 100% certainty so how can scientists predict climate change?

I dunno…. but I know from looking at pitchters and phonographs and memes that shit is going on. I see mass deforestation ..erosion. Where have the sparrows gone...why do I consume so much palm oil, and baby seals and the amount of whale blubber we get through at home is frankly embarrassing.

Today...as of this moment I'm pessimistic.... can't foresee the global powers doing anything to change unless they can turn it into an earner.
Capitalism, consumerisation for the good it does ultimately eats it's own tail.

Aye we're doom'd.

Although there is a comforting thought; apparently we could be only a few days away from global catastrophe. We haven't mapped all the meteors..we have a small peekhole window into the outer reaches of space.

Extinction Rebellion. I'm all for it. s'good to see the kids around the (comfy parts of the) world getting out....showing a bit of passion.


I am of the mind that we should at least hoover up before we go on holiday.
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