Extinction Rebellion or how not to win an argument

[doggone]

It's a mystery to me why a few of those being pissed off don't kick their arses.
There's only about 20 with 2x that number of media causing mayhem

[Polarbear]

No borders, no nations, no gas power stations.

Has a nice ring to it

Natural gas fired power stations are the cleanest fossil fuel power stations going. What do they want, coal fired, oil fired?

I know, nuclear
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[Fizzoid]

[Easy-X]

BTW... apart from being traitors they're also immensely stupid:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/climate-change-activists-target-wrong-building-as-they-protest-against-energy-company-in-city-of-a4201276.html

Can we have protestor-fired power stations? Not like anyone would miss this lot!

And point of order: not everyone in Surrey has a mansion. I only have a 2-bedroom house overlooking the green...
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[Fizzoid]

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[Alpineandy]

There will need to be some serious improvements in collection/storage of 'renewable power' before it becomes viable ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0W1ZZYIV8o
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[Easy-X]

Solar power is fine if you have lots of sun, e.g. California, all the year round but everything else I've seen (wind turbines, hydroelectric) are just horrendous environmental nightmares.

How does it make any sense to do away with things that damage the ecosystem slowly (e.g. gas power stations) and replace them with things that massacre animals and insects immediately?
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Or scrapping perfectly good petrol cars, to create years worth of extra carbon emissions building electric cars, fitted with toxic batteries?

The whole green thing is either a scam or poorly thought out.
Far cleaner to keep using older cars for as long as viable instead of scrapping them early to sell new cars.

The carbon footprint of building an electric car is eye watering compared to moderate use of a 10 year old petrol car.
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[Riejufixing]

[Alpineandy]

[Easy-X]

Consumerism culture is bad enough with things like old toasters but cars?! That's a substantial piece of machinery to throw away after 10 years or so! And most of the time there's nothing wrong with such a car mechanically it's things like the ULEZ that make them obsolete

Mandatory EFI kits and subsidised cats would surely be better than scrappage schemes. And whatever happened to Autogas conversions?

I wouldn't be surprised if next year's climate change protests were sponsored by the Nissan Leaf. Big fecking conspiracy
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[grr666]

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[Easy-X]

But why the obsession with "renewables" they aren't cheaper than conventional power generation methods and aren't kind to the environment.
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[Polarbear]

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[Fizzoid]

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[Johnnythefox]

I am 58, I don't have children, parents should be forced to go Vegan, more steaks for me.

[Easy-X]

The last straw:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49234054

tl;dr Maccy D used to supply straws made of plastic that could be recycled. To save the planet they've been replaced with paper straws that can't be recycled.
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[Easy-X]

The meme going round on Facebook and elsewhere:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mcdonalds-Plastic-Straw-/183797548434

I'd like to know how the changeover from plastic to paper straws has affected the pollution in, for example, Fujian.

And I've still yet to hear why we should be "saving the planet."

"We need to preserve the environment to safeguard future generations!"

Really? I haven't heard of any plans to re-engineer humans at the genetic level so I think it's safe to assume the next generation will just be as spiteful and selfish as the previous thousand or so.
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[Jmoan]