Extinction Rebellion

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

The fella in the documentary above believes it is.

He said he wants us to be carbon neutral by 2025, IE, in 6 years time because it is an emergency etc etc.

The only way to achieve that is to basically bring Chinese/US/EU growth to a total standstill.
 
The fella in the documentary above believes it is.

He said he wants us to be carbon neutral by 2025, IE, in 6 years time because it is an emergency etc etc.

The only way to achieve that is to basically bring Chinese/US/EU growth to a total standstill.

Thats not right now is it?

6 years is very optimistic but 2050 is too late.
 
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.


Haha that’s some fucked up logic
 
Whilst I agree with some of ER's ideals, I don't agree with their methods. I know a fair few who have been on marches, and they are mainly retired professionals who have go f*ck all else to do, attempting to atone for many of the things they themselves have done in their younger years.
 

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