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Post by VanWoman84 on Apr 20, 2019 14:52:38 GMT
I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned this before now.
I have mixed feelings about the actual protest and it's form.
I was particularly stunned about Emma Thompson's massively hypocritical action of FLYING 5400 miles to get to the protest.
What's your thoughts?
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Post by NomadCris on Apr 20, 2019 15:10:46 GMT
The Thompson thing sums up my opinion of them. I joined them at the early stage and then realised from their discussion on social nedia theyre not really grassroots greenies theyre a bunch of privileged whiners and hoorah henries IMO so i left.
I think the majority of folks see them that way.
They wont get anywhere,just the same as violent window smashing car burning protests get anywhere.The government always responds the same way.
Inconveniencing the public will undermine their objective.
What they should be doing since most are clever intellectuals is using the media, using social media and lobbying the public outside shopping stores and supermarkets and cinemas and takeaways and pushing these issues in everyones face 24/7 tackling and changing consumer attitudes to waste and pollution,theyd get more support and industry and government would have have to listen.
As they are theyre just come across as privileged folks annoying and inconveniencing everyone and people will get bored with them.
A bit like the hippy protests of the 60's and 70's when most hippies were of well to do middle class backgrounds.
Its consumers and their habits they need changing its them they should be targeting in an informative way not bullying or intimidatory but pushing the message that we all need to change.
Government will only act if its popular with voters and manufacturers are feeling the pinch and pressuring government.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Apr 20, 2019 15:19:03 GMT
They don't really have a firm objective.
On LBC, one 'spokesperson' said they wanted to eliminate carbon emissions in the UK by 2025. No clue as to how it would happen.
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Post by NomadCris on Apr 20, 2019 15:25:27 GMT
Exactly,its populist sloganising and meaningless soundbite campaigning.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Apr 20, 2019 15:30:06 GMT
Handy it's Easter at the end of the first working week they did this wasn't it?
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Post by NomadCris on Apr 20, 2019 15:39:21 GMT
Again its simply going to alienate the public who just want to enjoy the holiday. There seems to be a complete disconnect in any logical thinking.
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Post by orthio on Apr 20, 2019 19:32:25 GMT
I'm happy to see something fairly major and disrupting hit the news to be honest. I don't know how the public are feeling about it in general, maybe it's put some people off the climate-change debate somewhat, but it is and would continue to be strange if everyone just carried on as normal at this point.
It seems to coincide nicely with a David Attenborough commentary and documentary that he put out recently. Hopefully people begin to pick up a general interest and find small ways to help themselves. I really don't think the UK government can be said to have made all that much effort for the importance of the environment.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Apr 20, 2019 21:33:11 GMT
I'm just glad to see something other than brexit in the news.
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Post by valdez on Apr 20, 2019 21:50:25 GMT
yes that actress flying over to protest was a bit rich unless she walked did she
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Post by VanWoman84 on Apr 20, 2019 22:06:28 GMT
Emma Thompson? No she definately flew here.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2019 13:25:33 GMT
I love, love, love this protest and would be there if I could be.
For those of you concerned that stuff like this is pointless and irritating; remember that Mahatma Ghandi devised and used this method to break up the British Empire and win India independence.
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Post by itinerantchild on Apr 21, 2019 13:43:59 GMT
There was a great phrase in a film years ago with reference to ghandi stated ' one anorexic loony in a loin cloth and we lost an entire sub continent '
I do not think that he would of been insulted :-)
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Post by orthio on Apr 21, 2019 16:18:11 GMT
Maybe having these extinction rebellion 'loons' on TV will help to raise the bar for everyone else. We've had naked people on air for the brexit protests - bring on more lovely crazy people talking about the environment!
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Post by VanWoman84 on Apr 21, 2019 17:23:44 GMT
Apparently it's sort of worked. The protesters are switching to more talk based solutions.
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Post by NomadCris on Apr 21, 2019 21:58:58 GMT
Ghandiji was a lawyer had a shrewd mind and had a strategy.I dont see the comparison myself but hey ho maybe theyll get something from it.
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