To think the Greta protesters should sort out College Green?

[Orangeblossom78]

They have totally trashed College Green. Local to me in Bristol today

AIBU or should they not be paying to sort this out, rather than a fundraiser / local council?

Also could have more respect for the environment. But maybe, that is 'someone else's problem'

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/college-green-greta-damage-mud-3898307

They picked up one of the ding dongs up for the damage didn’t they? Give the idiot a small trowel and make them get in with it.

Least they were actually trying to send a message and say stop destroying our planet. It's more than anyone else is doing.

Don't we all want young people to feel part of a community and actually give a fuck about the world we live in.

I doubt a few grass seeds has any more impact than what an average person has done and uses today.

Isn't that kind of the point of the fundraiser? The people who were there protesting are the people donating. It's already raised over £4k since this afternoon, so it should be a fairly decent amount by the time it's done.

The myriad of festivals in Eastville park, and circuses on the downs also fuck up the grass. At least this is being paid towards by the people attending.

Grass grows back.

It's not like people were setting bins on fire, they literally just stood on the grass on a rainy day

How are "they" going to sort it out without a fundraiser?

Well I'm guessing many are paying into the fundraiser?

And also the 'college green' is hardly an endangered habitat

Im very rarely pro environmental protesters!! but if that's where she was due to speak where else did you expect them to stand?

Oh, give over.

It's not trashed, it will grow back. It looks like that in the drought in the summer anyway.

They seem to have been careful - there seems a surprising lack of litter for such a large event, the article notes that flowers etc were left undamaged, and attendees are fundraising to cover the costs of maintenance. You say the attendees should pay for the repair - they seem to be the ones paying into gofundme?!

Also, the destruction of a lawn due to feet/mud isn’t environmental damage, really. The lawn almost certainly contributed barely anything to local biodiversity (or pollution levels), and indeed lawns are often very unhealthy environments due to the use of weed killer etc and the environmental costs of mowing and maintenance. It’s no great temporary loss to local ecology or the global environment, and is nothing compared to what Greta and her supporters are achieving by raising awareness of the climate emergency - I know several people influenced by this awareness who went temporarily or permanently vegan or vegetarian, aren’t flying etc.

I clicked on the link expecting to see at the very least loads of rubbish judging by your OP. Instead all I see is lots of mud and foot prints in said mud. They haven’t even trampled the flowers

I can’t get too worked up about a peaceful protest with minimal damage.

Sorry but I do think YABU.

I can see why you don’t like the look of the damage and the cost of putting it right but.....They were just gathering. There are many other types of gathering that cause mud - would you be so cross about them?

Anyway, in time, grass grows back.

Climate crisis is real, it’s happening and we need the issue to be raised again and again until stronger action is being taken for the sake of our children’s security and safety. Greta has mobilised hundreds of people into action and will be remembered in history in the same way Ghandi, Martin Luther King etc are.

Take some deep breaths and relax.

I was more worried about the mass gathering and coronavirus tbh.

I clicked on the link expecting to see at the very least loads of rubbish judging by your OP. Instead all I see is lots of mud and foot prints in said mud. They haven’t even trampled the flowers. I can’t get too worked up about a peaceful protest with minimal damage

Exactly!