Extinction Rebellion

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Emotional satiation?

Also: where's the point in violence, when all that anyone really cares about is a disruption of commerce? And if they block oxford circus, they aren't damaging small business, they're just keeping tourists out of large department stores and annoy the s**t out of people trying to get to work in soho, which implies they work in advertising anyway.

I want to fight as long as it’s sword fighting with sticks. That’s always been my forte.

Talking about siblings in another thread is stirring up lots of memories...mostly of physical fights.

I'm glad that XR are passionate about saving the planet. However, their entire existence is based on a misunderstanding of the IPCC's special report on 1.5 degrees. Of their three demands, one is meaningless (declaring an emergency), one is completely unrealistic and unnecessary (net zero by 2025), and one would not achieve the goal they desire (citizen's assemblies).

Extinction Rebellion appears to be a well funded organization.

If verified, this confirms Extinction Rebellion is disturbingly flush and well-funded: over £1 million raised this year, half of it still unspent, according to the documents.

Major donors are said to include — inevitably — George Soros; Vivienne Westwood’s son Joe Corre (the saucy underwear and dildo tycoon, worth $48 million); the European Climate Foundation (which funnels money from far-left American philanthropic foundations to European climate projects); Greenpeace; the far-left Tides Foundation; and a little known Swiss asset management company, called Furka Holdings, founded by a banker with Russian links, which gave £50,000. Another of their previously revealed donors is the popular beat combo Radiohead.

Source: Soros on List of Mega-Rich Extinction Rebellion Backers

Also refer to: Is George Soros Funding Extinction Rebellion?

I envy them their energy and courage.

At least they are doing something instead of burying their heads in the sand pretending us innocent little humans couldn't possibly have such a large effect on the planet even though apparently some invisible man in the sky created us to be the masters and decide the fate of everything else on Earth. This unwillingness to accept responsibility and change comes from a failure to understand scale and unintended consequences and the complicated way systems work in equilibrium.

I wish I was brave enough to join them and get myself arrested in such a worthy cause.

That is assuming the Man-Made Global Warming theory is real. For the past 20 years since 1998, the global temperatures as recorded with the most accurate sensors, the satellites show that global temperatures have stagnated. This is despite the fact that Carbon Dioxide levels continues to rise over the past 2 decades.

Conservatives and Big Corporations are doing nothing in regards to climate change. Activists must make more noise and protest and force the government to change and act on climate change now.

Many have tried to compare Extinction Rebellion’s climate crusade with past movements for progressive change.

These comparisons are delusional, pretentious and insulting. But they unwittingly highlight something important. Whether it was the Chartists, the Suffragettes, the civil-rights movement, or the gay-rights movement, these genuinely progressive campaigns were all despised by the elite at the time. These were campaigns that sought to expand human freedom, to wrest rights and resources from the establishment. By contrast, environmentalist campaigns like Extinction Rebellion are, by their very nature, against freedom. They seek to place new limits on human activity: on industry, on economic growth, on our travel, on our diets, and on childbirth.

For many years, the great and the good have been in broad agreement that something must be done about climate change. But they also seem to agree that the bulk of the costs should not be shouldered by them. Only last week, celebrities, business leaders and politicians descended on Sicily for the 7th annual Google Camp, which this year was dedicated to tackling climate change. After arriving in their private jets, mega yachts and sports cars, delegates were treated to a lecture on climate change by Prince Harry, who delivered it in his bare feet. Earlier this year, 1,500 individual private jets flew to Davos. The highlight of the summit was a conversation between Prince William and Sir David Attenborough… on climate change.

The establishment only seems to care about ‘pollution’ when it is ordinary people doing the polluting. It is always cheap flights, cheap food and cheap fashion which cause the most consternation among environmentalists. In turn, climate change presents the establishment with an opportunity to manage the little people’s habits, tastes and aspirations.

Source: An establishment rebellion