Climate Activists

[Cooksie]

They're back this morning - blocking four routes round London. Just saw a video of men shouting at them that there was an ambulance stuck in the queue and dragging them off the road - only to have them run back on before being dragged off again as the men tried to wave a single lane through.

It's going to end up with someone getting their head kicked in at this rate.

My heart broke when I saw a women saying her elderly mother was in an ambulance and she needed to get past to get to her How selfish can you be!

 

[Scotch Mist]

My answer to all of this is 'stop buying cheap mass produced crap from China'.

Yes I turn off lights when I go out if a room and recycle as much as possible. Can't afford a holiday so I don't think that my carbon footprint is particularly large. There's actually not much else I can do except boycott buying rubbish goods that have been shipped halfway across the world from the world's biggest polluter.

 

[neroli]

It's all so immature. No one respects or takes them seriously. They are fair weather nuisances anyway..No sign of 'em when it's cold ironically.

 

[JoeBloggs]

I loudly applaud those drivers that yanked the protestors out of the way on Wandsworth Bridge and in East London.

If the Police didn't like it, tough!

Do your jobs, or have no grounds for complaint or condemnation if the public do the job for you.

As for Roger Hallam of XR, the guy needs a public flogging.

I've been reading up on him, it is no wonder they think they are above the law. He committed criminal damage but was found not guilty because 'their actions were a proportionate response to the climate crisis'. He was then arrested again over the drone who ha at Heathrow, again never charged.

They think they can do as they please for their cause because no one holds them to task, only the public due to pure frustration. I would more than happily drag on of them out of the way, how they can do this in front of police while they stand around is beyond me. We know if this was a bunch of kids or you or I we would be arrested.

 

[rainbowlemon]

They're just going to end up bringing stronger protest laws for the rest of us, after the way this lot carry on.

 

[IngressUK]

The bunch of headbangers known as Insulate Britain have been at it again, this time at junction 14 of the M25.

What a stupid move considering the current petrol issue, with fuel still unavailable in many locations.

These guys now need to suffer the wrath of the public, whom they selfishly hold up.

 

[Damita]

They really are appallingly vile.

The police and authorities anger me more though for refusing to clamp down on people of this ilk. Why should the rest of us have our lives and country ruined because some anarchist twits want a fun day out? It's not protesting, it's just thugs causing chaos because they can.

 

[wearedoomed]

The planet will be fine regardless of what we do to it. It might not support human life eventually but it will still be the Earth, and will probably appreciate a break from the humans scurrying all over it.

Climate protestors are really worried about themselves, not the Earth. Just admit it!

 

[JoeBloggs]

I work near one of the junctions they have closed, it is absolute choas. It's wet, everyone is cross and late and it will and has caused accidents. I took me over an hour to get to work, which should take 30 mins max.

Surrey Police are getting ripped apart on facebook, everyone is saying leave them be and let the motorways run as normal. They are blaming highways saying they have told them to close them for 'safety'. Sorry but no, they got up there when it was open, leave them be and let us carry on. Things are shit enough right now without this on peoples plates as well.

 

[neroli]

What with Net Zero and AI I'm glad that I'm old and have nearly done my time...I wouldn't want to be around for what is to come. Horrible self-centred people no common sense or kindness and a computer-driven world. No thanks.

 

[PrincessCharming]

I’d like to add that the oil industry here is the most heavily regulated and if we’re going to have oil and gas, and let’s face it currently we HAVE to, you want it from the UK sectors (or Norway) as far as environment, safety and human rights for workers/locals are concerned.

 

[kev1974]

So we're negotiating and doing deals with these numpties now?

Has money changed hands? I hope not. I thought Britain did not pay ransoms.

Why are we still not simply getting a grip and arresting and imprisoning this lunatic minority who just want to keep disrupting things for the majority.

https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...OP-protesters-disrupting-London-Marathon.html

 

[Scotch Mist]

I'm sick of all the doom mongering.
I found this comment online which sums it up and which shows how quickly people forget:

"In the 1960s, it was oil: we were only gonna have enough for ten years.
In the 1970s, it was that another ice age that would occur in ten years,
In the 1980s, it was acid rain which was gonna destroy all the crops within ten years.
In the 1990s, it was the ozone layer which would be destroyed in ten years.
In the 2000s, it was the glaciers which would all melt within ten years.
In the 2010s, it was that the east and west coast would be underwater from the rising oceans ... you got it ... ten years! None of this fear-mongering nonsense ever came true, though, did it! Not a bit of it - not one single bit!"

 

[lilyannrose]

I'm irritated that the Magna Carta two were supposed to be in Westminster Magistrate's Court the other day but there's absolutely no news about whether they were or not, or what stage their trial is at since. All news stories relate either to their arrest at the British Museum, or their numerous previous arrests and court appearances when they should have been locked up.

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???

 

[JoeBloggs]

I'm still struggling with the idea that causing tailbacks on or around the M25 is some kind of noteworthy achievement?
Bit of an easy target - it's perfectly capable of doing that on its own without needing any help and always has been, destined to be so even when it was just a glint in a traffic cone's eye.

That said it's still insane that so few people can mess up so much just by sitting in the wrong place.

It amazes me that they think the government care people are stuck on the M25. There are always tail backs, an accident and it comes to a standstill.

 

[kev1974]

Heh every time this thread resurfaces I think ffs what have the hypocritical twats done to inconvenience and irritate decent people now?

 

[IngressUK]

Even if the UK was carbon minus, it wouldn't make an ounce of difference to climate change.

Therefore why aren't these fools protesting in the countries that cause the highest levels of pollution?

 

[Justhereforthedrama]

You would think they would have realised they are making literally no impact on fighting climate change with the blocking of roads and the desecration of graves. We should stop reporting on them. Starve them of the oxygen they so desire.

 

[Sunshine&clouds]

The cause is massively important and it seems the only way to get Goverments to actually do something about climate change is people power. But although I support the cause 110%, Extinction Rebellion are damaging their argument by being yobs, breaking laws and basically being complete twats.

They're reducing the support for this issue and that's unforgivable. I cannot understand how they are too stupid to realise this. I'm so angry with them, because they are sabotaging, arguably the most important issue on the planet. I wish they'd just grow up, because they are causing almost as much damage to this cause as a coal fired power station.

 

[Yel]

I know you have to kick up a fuss as a protest in parliament Square is so easy to ignore, but this isn't it

I'm not even sure retrofitting insulation even works, can cause so much problems doing things like filling a cavity that was designed to be a breathable void!