Climate Activists

[ChampagneBox]

If they succeeded and stopped oil, say tomorrow, what do they think would happen?

They’d all be rocking back and forth with attention withdrawal symptoms in the West wing of mummy and daddy’s house

 

[Ceelea]

God, I wish their parents had settled for a blowjob.

 

[Oohthedrama]

Absolute fuckers should be made do community service,
The really shitty jobs nobody wants to do, let them make a difference in a positive way, not this woke as fuck bullshit.
I think I’ve only seen one person defending what they’re doing, some idiot on sky news doing a press preview

 

[IngressUK]

If you ever get the chance to speak face to face with an XR protester, please ask them why they aren't protesting in China.

A country that produces 28% of the entire worlds co2 emissions, is building new coal fired power stations year on year and has no desire to go green in any real meaningful way.

Of course they are thick as pigshit, many of them.

They don't seem to understand even if the UK was carbon minus, it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference until the likes of China and the U.S are on board.

 

[LadyMuck]

Wish someone would go and spray stuff over their house and see how they like it

 

[navybluewolf]

I would love it if they were genuine, but most of them are not. It's just a new, cool rebellious thing for kids to do. They'd be better off staying at home and growing vegetables on an allotment instead of travelling hundreds of miles in clapped out cars spewing black smoke, camping out and making a mess, and buying snacks and coffee in single use plastic packaging instead of packing their own. I've seen all this with my own eyes. They leave shit tonnes of rubbish behind too. Also, the UK government has already declared a climate emergency, as has most of Europe. Why don't they go in protest in Brazil and China, lets see how far they get there.

 

[no-no]

Bunch of hypocritcal twats. They have a livestock/dairy farmer subsection to their pathetic movement. Says it all. They and Greta use way more fossil fuels than me so I won’t be lectured by them.

They care as much about global warming as I do about golf (and I hate golf). For the rent-a-gobs it’s just something to feed their egos, they don’t care what damage they’re doing to the message.

 

[kev1974]

No sign of Just Stop Oil in front of Joe Biden's 27 vehicle motorcade that took him to his Net Zero talks with King Charles today then? Not very committed, are they.

 

[lilyannrose]

I know one who says that certain types (i.e. people with less money than them) go on "the wrong type of holiday"
Their thrice yearly foreign holidays are absolutely fine though!

For a lot of these protestors it's never been able climate. It's been about absolute hatred for their fellow man, mainly the working class and below daring to exist in ways other than waiting on them. Lockdown made that loud and clear.

 

[judgejohndeed]

Absolutely sick of them now tbh. They make a load of mess wherever they go and they’re so irritating they’re undermining their cause (which is an important one) because people don’t want to listen to them when they behave the way they do. Just a load of privileged anarchists really, seem to have nothing better to do.

 

[PrincessCharming]

The company I worked with years ago had Greenpeace protesters chain themselves to railings high up on one of their vessels. They left them overnight until they got cold and hungry (and had pissed themselves).

 

[Margo_Channing]

https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...t-cold-dark-gluing-Volkswagen-shop-floor.html

If only we'd take the same approach

 

[neroli]

The Tories would win the election if they pledged to send this rabble off for National Service(compulsory military option) and if they refused send them to Rwanda in an expensive fuel guzzling plane or on foot/swimming if they had ethical issues with air flights.

 

[Scotch Mist]

This is at least the second or third attack on the Magna Carta in recent years.

Then there was that guy who threw himself at the Queen's coffin when her Majesty was lying in state. He got let off free too.

What the hell has happned to people? This sort of behaviour started before Covid so lockdown can't be blamed. It just feels like there has been a mass "nervous breakdown" of humans in the western world but at random???

Something has gone wrong with society this century particularly in the last 10 years and the covid lockdown exacerbated it.
We have a very polarised society now and people seem to have no tolerance for the opinions of others. Very few are satisfied with their lot in life.

Apparently this is part of cyclical history:
From New Scientist
"It starts with a fairly equal society, then, as the population grows, the supply of labour begins to outstrip demand and so becomes cheap. Wealthy elites form, while the living standards of the workers fall. As the society becomes more unequal, the cycle enters a more destructive phase, in which the misery of the lowest strata and infighting between elites contribute to social turbulence and, eventually, collapse."

Our already extremely unequal society has billionaires travelling the world in private jets at one end while lecturing ordinary people to stop going on holiday and will impoverish them further by enforcing net zero. This is what I have a problem with.

I'm all for positive initiatives to clean up the plastic in the sea etc but the reason why ordinary people are not always on board with the activists is because the sacrifices to their lifestyle makes life even more difficult while not affecting the elites. There are pensioners and families in this country having to choose between eating and heating their homes in winter.

The elites need to start making sacrifices themselves instead of thinking that the poor people will be happy about being made even poorer.

 

[EastofHollywood]

They are a bunch of trustafarian idiots who just want to cause a load of trouble. The people who don't want to do anything about climate change are delighted with them because they are turning so many people against them. Technology causes 10% of global emissions. Will they be getting the new iPhone when it comes out? Will they stop buying new clothes when they see a cheap top in Primark? They want the government to do something because they know that something will be tax, which they can afford,so they can carry on going on their skiing trips and gap years.It is not constructive at all. If everyone acts on things like reducing meat consumption, reducing plastic use etc we can make a difference. XR just go on marches just to agitate.

 

[Scotch Mist]

I'm absolutely raging about those JSO orange cunts spraying paint on stone henge
When are these morons going to face punishment for their moronic acts of vandalism.

https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...range-paint-members-public-try-drag-away.html

 

[JoeBloggs]

They were in the paper over yesterdays protests, the leader of Extinction Rebellion has supported their refusal to let an ambulance though and said it doesn't matter if someone dies because of this as the climate is more important than one death.

I hope he or his family never need the ambulance service. I get they are passionate about their cause, but they are not helping themselves. They are causing people to fight against them instead of supporting them.

 

[kev1974]

The main reason I do not take these protesters seriously.

The UK is currently responsible for 1-2% of worldwide co2 emissions. Efforts are being made to reduce this to below zero over time - something we are continually not allowed for forget.

Yet these protesters continually seem to be ignorant to the larger producers of co2, namely China, Japan, Russia and the U.S.

Instead they makes peoples lives a misery here for little impact on a worldwide scale. If they are serious about their aims, then they should be going out to these countries and shaming them for their co2 emissions.

However they won't do that, as they are utter hypocrites.

Because none of it (Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain) is really about the climate at all.

That's just the cuddly concept that they are using to get some level of acceptance for their nuisance from certain sections of the public (especially the poor gullible sods that they've persuaded to be the foot soldiers and go stand on train roofs, smash bank windows, sit in front of lorries etc). Also to make things more difficult for the government to shut them down (pretending to be about climate change keeps the people in power who make the laws and set the jail sentences etc blindly sympathetic).

The reality is just old fashioned anarchy and civil disorder masterminded by a few that are well out of sight.

Not sure what their true motive or end game is, perhaps just distracting the police and courts while something else criminal is happening, or perhaps general breakdown of law and order. I'm sure we'll find out eventually, but it's not climate change.

 

[NeverEnough]

I remember there was a good documentary years ago which followed UAF and EDL. They filmed at the same protest but from different sides. When it came to it nothing was much different between them in the end. Shouting at police, shouting at each other, fighting with the police, fighting with each other. It ended with arrests galore on both sides.

Extremists are the two cheeks of the same arse.

 

[kev1974]

Hopefully those two elderly loons that attacked Magna Carta and all the other loons that have yet to be tried after breaking bank windows or vandalising art, are all shitting bricks now.