Party protesters

[Portreath]

Why the heck have these activists started to block the transport systems in London. Why not go and find a field to go bang their drums in. Looks like all they are doing is peeeeeeeeeing every one off that's trying to go about their working day.

 

[robster62]

How can they be green protesters? Surely they're creating more pollution by delaying everyone

 

[Gunge]

They're as thick as shyt, have nothing better to do, been born with a destructive gene and completely and totally taken in by the great climate change crapola lie. Someone should tell them that dihydrogen monoxide poses a far more pressing and dire risk than carbon dioxide. Wind 'em up and watch 'em go.

 

[Portreath]

I feel for the self employed guys that are loosing money down to these selfish t**ts

 

[chesters-mild]

+1 on all the comments above, I've met professional campaigners in the past - they have nothing better to do. As for disrupting the DLR, it's electric!
I note that none of them has tried to glue themselves to the track in the underground - that would light them up for sure.

 

[Gunge]

Meanwhile, where is this great climatic calamity they all claim to live in mortal fear of? I've yet to see any glimmer of such a thing, let alone the full onslaught of gaia's wrath, or somesuch nonsense. What a load of cobblers.

 

[GhostShip]

I respect anyone's right to protest peacefully, but surely at a time when everyone should be encouraged to get out of their cars and use public transport, converging on London and deliberately causing delays to public transport is completely misguided?

 

[MmmBeer]

Make these eco-yobos responsible fo the damage and disruption they caused. It might discourage them from acting like spoilt children in the future.

 

[An Ankoù]

Heroic effort on behalf of our eco-warriors doing their level best to ensure we have a climate fit for growing hops and barley. Of course, London commuters wouldn't give a dingo's kidney for any of that if it causes an inconvenience.
Beer comes from pubs, innit! There are loads of pubs so what's the problem?

 

[jceg316]

I don't think they're doing enough. The aim is to disrupt London, the best and most important city in the world, however I've been able to travel around quite easily. I was more disrupted by severe delays on the District line this morning due to signal failures, not those trying to bring about system change. It would be great if they could glue themselves to more trains, close more roads etc, that would be a lot more fun.

I went to Parliament Square yesterday after work and had a look around. It was very peaceful, just people hanging out with a lot of police around and roads around closed. Someone had glued themselves to the road, I saw a few people being carried off by police, they looked like they were having fun being carried away.

 

[Gunge]

...they looked like they were having fun being carried away.

It's all a laugh and a big joke to this rentamob shower, just like the whole climate-change crapola thing is to me. But apart from ruffling a few feathers on here and elsewhere, I'm not actually hurting or inconveniencing anyone. Spot the difference?

 

[jceg316]

It's all a laugh and a big joke to this rentamob shower, just like the whole climate-change crapola thing is to me. But apart from ruffling a few feathers on here and elsewhere, I'm not actually hurting or inconveniencing anyone. Spot the difference?

they aren't hurting anyone either. As I said it was very peaceful. It seems like they are "ruffling some feathers" as well.

 

[Gunge]

they aren't hurting anyone either.

Really?!? With respect, you appear to be as deluded as the protesters.

 

[An Ankoù]

Compare them with the Jaunards d'ici! They're not defacing national monuments, not smashing shop windows, not tearing up cobble-stones to throw at the police, not setting cars alight, not burning piles of tyres in shop doorways. A very "British" demonstration.

 

[jceg316]

Really?!? With respect, you appear to be as deluded as the protesters.

By answering with a personal insult I can see your feathers are ruffled.

 

[An Ankoù]

"Climate Change" deniers should come and have a look at the 25 litres of the stuff I got conditioning in my garage!
(Red IPA 7.5% abv, IBUs off the scale).

 

[Clint]

I really do wonder if all this stuff is true...I have a suspicion that it mostly isn't...I listened to a radio interview this week where a "leading" boffin on such matters was questioned by "Joe public"...he asked if it was true that the 1.2 trillion pounds a year put aside to combat global warming for the next 20 years or so would only bring the temp down by one fifth of one degree...or something like that...he very painfully agreed.
It's a scam,another tax on top of an ever increasing amount of "legalised" theft...
That Attenborough fella has taken more plane rides than I've had hot dinners so that's a bunch of hypocrisy for a start...and he's not a scientist he just owns BBC 2 or summit ..

 

[Gunge]

That Attenborough fella has taken more plane rides than I've had hot dinners so that's a bunch of hypocrisy for a start...and he's not a scientist he just owns BBC 2 or summit ..

Ye... he's making a jolly good living out of peddling this junk. Why should he care anyway, it's not like he'll be around for much longer to see his fantasies come true.

 

[BeerCat]

I used to protest about going to parties three nights in a row before but never in the street.

 

[Hoppyland]

I really do wonder if all this stuff is true...I have a suspicion that it mostly isn't.

Well it can only be a suspicion, Clint, as I guess that you have no real method of evaluating the truth. Neither do most of us. I don't. I spent all of my working life as a scientist - as a biologist working mainly on marine fisheries. I can tell you an awful lot about the population dynamics of molluscs and crustaceans - and it will all be based on hard-won facts laced with a very healthy dose of "well, we don't really know that yet, and probably never will unless more targeted research is done". Ask me about climate science, and I have no more expertise to offer than the person who delivers my groceries or empties my refuse bin.
I do know someone who really does possess some expertise, though. My daughter is a physicist, currently based in Australia and working on the dynamics of the Antarctic ice-cap. OK, you don't know me, and you may not believe what I post here - but I am utterly convinced that the research that she and her colleagues is doing is just as valid as my work (pretty low-level in my case!) on fisheries ever was. Big difference - no-one suggested that over-exploitation of fish was a "scam", just a lie that would go away and we could keep fishing stocks without any danger of extinction. Why? Because they couldn't possibly get away with it. The annihilation of herring, mackerel and cod stocks was there for all to see.
But, with climate change, you can get away with it. I have no doubt that the work of my daughter and her colleagues represents mankind's best evaluation of the present situation. But it is easy to criticise because it is not, and can never be, certain. What I ask myself, though, is this. If the best science available to mankind at the moment is overwhelmingly suggesting that we have a very serious problem here, then isn't it obviously time to take a step back and think? In particular, to think of the risk involved. If we change a lot of our industrial behaviour, it may cost societies a lot of money. If we then stabilise global warming, and all turns out well, it might have been worth it - we will still have a decent economy. If we do nothing, and the planet seriously warms up, then we're likely to be stuffed. The whole thing - the economy, civilisation as we know it, might well go **** up. Why on earth risk it??