Extinction Rebellion

Going to watch this tomorrow. Not sure where I am with ER and would love to see more interviews with their reps.
 
"We can get carbon emissions net zero by 2025".

"You will do damage to peoples lives"

"Well the climate emergency will do more damage".

*Turn off*
 
I watched this the other night. He's probably right about the likely outcome, I'm afraid; but I disagree that six billion deaths would be an unmitigated tragedy. It's probably a necessity if the human race and the planet (in its currently recognisable form) is going to survive.

I will add that even if the predictions around global warming are incorrect, what we are doing to the oceans is utterly shameful. For me, on a par with any stain on human history, including the Holocaust - and I defy anyone to suggest otherwise.
 
We pretty much need 1/3 of the global human population to just die in order to save the planet. Mother nature will find a way.
 
I gave up meat a while ago.. cycle to work when i can. Most of the people i talk to of my generation have no interest, have to just educate the kids and hope for the best.
One colleague told me he would double his meat consumption to offset me giving up!
 
Just been on their website. They all appear to be white, 25-40 and all the men have beards. Are they being ultra choosy when choosing members?
 
Bury your head, it’s fine.

Don’t moan though when inconvenience turns into survival for you.

As we've said on another thread, I certainly am not burying my head in the sand, we just have to be realistic. The human race cannot change overnight unless you propose radical options?

For example, pollution is a function of consumption/population so shooting people or restricting births will eliminate all increases in carbon emissions. I'm guessing lefties will shout outrage at this but I thought this was an emergency?

Extinction Rebellion themselves are a mass of irony given their existence alone creates a carbon footprint. I'm guessing they have a website (servers use a lot of electricity) and they travel somehow to their protests? Emma Thompson's flight from LA to London and back is the golden example of this. I bet my (a mere peasant) carbon footprint is nothing compared to hers!

I bet ER also have a Facebook page (Facebook has some of the largest and most power-hungry data centres in the world). I bet they also organise and moan about climate change on Twitter (run by Facebook).

You can see where this is going and it is why their attempts to raise awareness actually just wind people up. I want them to stop annoying people and start contributing to scientific solutions which are the only thing that is important.
 
As we've said on another thread, I certainly am not burying my head in the sand, we just have to be realistic. The human race cannot change overnight unless you propose radical options?

For example, pollution is a function of consumption/population so shooting people or restricting births will eliminate all increases in carbon emissions. I'm guessing lefties will shout outrage at this but I thought this was an emergency?

Extinction Rebellion themselves are a mass of irony given their existence alone creates a carbon footprint. I'm guessing they have a website (servers use a lot of electricity) and they travel somehow to their protests? Emma Thompson's flight from LA to London and back is the golden example of this. I bet my (a mere peasant) carbon footprint is nothing compared to hers!

I bet ER also have a Facebook page (Facebook has some of the largest and most power-hungry data centres in the world). I bet they also organise and moan about climate change on Twitter (run by Facebook).

You can see where this is going and it is why their attempts to raise awareness actually just wind people up. I want them to stop annoying people and start contributing to scientific solutions which are the only thing that is important.

Do you genuinely believe that the point of it all is to completely stop the carbon footprint right now?
 

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