“Last week the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published their latest report. Eight years in the making, involving hundreds of experts, and signed off by nearly 200 governments, it represents the global consensus on the science of climate change.”
“Its basic conclusion: things will inevitably get worse. Drastic action is urgently required to ensure things don’t get catastrophically worse.”
This is the situation. Governments are doing too little. Women had to blow things up and throw themselves under horses to win the vote. Sometimes, when governments aren’t doing what is right for the people, despite the clear evidence and public pressure, then direct and shocking action is the only way.
If that stops a few people getting to work, causes disruption, creates some mess in a nice park. Tough luck. This is a GLOBAL EMERGENCY and people are already dying.
Nit picking about some hypocrisy in ER arguments or behaviours is a waste of energy. You will, of course find them, but so what? The science is clear. Climate chaos is already happening and future generations are going to experience hardship the likes of which we can barely imagine. We have an absolute duty to do our best to mitigate that to the best of our ability and we are not. So those that understand and feel passionately about it are doing their best to pressure governments into taking the required action.
Good for them. Their conscience is clear.
Keep calling them names if you like but it doesn’t change the reality that they are doing this for very good reason. You might not like what they are doing but history looks back favourably on those that put themselves out like this for a just and right cause.
None of us can say we live 100% according to our values. We all engage in hypocrisy in one form or another. None of us are perfect. No organisation is perfect. At least they are doing something.