John Gibbons WHAT DO YOU think of the two young climate activists who threw some cold tomato soup over the famous Sunflowers painting by Vincent Van Gogh at the National Gallery in London? Maybe, like many people, you have some sympathy for their cause, but feel they went too far or picked the wrong target this time?
That such a rag-tag group of climate protesters could elicit such a violent response from the UK establishment is better understood when you realise that embattled prime minister Liz Truss is a former employee of the energy giant, Shell. Perhaps the real question we need to be asking is: who exactly are the conservatives and who are the radicals?According to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, climate activists “are depicted as dangerous radicals, yet the truly dangerous radicals are the countries and firms that are increasing the production of fossil fuels. Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.
A survey of publishing climate scientists contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year found that two in three respondents were suffering “anxiety, grief or other distress” as a result of what they knew about climate change. A 2020 study projected that within the next 50 years, areas of the world where up to three billion people currently live will become too hot for human habitation, with more dramatic changes in temperature in the coming decades than at any time in the last 6,000 years.This paints an apocalyptic scenario of global famines, mass forced migration, wars over dwindling water and food resources and the total collapse of modern civilisation and the global economy.
Knowing what I do about the dire climate emergency and the ongoing destruction of the living world and the evisceration of our collective future, why have I too not yet had the courage to break the law, disturb the peace and perhaps end up behind bars? I really don’t fancy getting arrested and had never imagined I might someday choose to be jailed, but now I’m really not so sure.
think_or_swim There is little evidence that this is happening. The official projection for 2100 do not predict armageddon - they actually predict a richer world under all co2 scenarios. We had this eco-alarmism in the 70s and the opposite happened!
think_or_swim Of course the perpetual darkness of nuclear winter doesn’t bother them at all .
think_or_swim A good slap upside the head would do wonders.
think_or_swim It's never attractive individuals that do things like this, funny that.
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think_or_swim Let's all pay taxes to the government so they can give it all to Ukraine. That should fix the weather
think_or_swim I'm dying here..
think_or_swim Stealing a living this lad
think_or_swim johngibbions is a pompous dick
think_or_swim If your not offended your a clown 🤡 , nice fire work display by a Londoner, who fired fire works at those clown on a bridge.
think_or_swim Because of decades of sandwich-board level hysteria like: There's no point worrying while world leaders are still buying beachfront properties.
think_or_swim Food waste is offensive