- Location
- Ceredigion
Just as an offshoot . I turned up at the train station with my bike . You cant take a bike on a high speed train if its busy or at peak times on other trains ,
Extinction Rebellion and Farming
- Thread starter Chris F
- Start date
- Location
- Ledbury, Herefordshire
The level of deflection in that is staggering.
Most of those kids have never met anyone from the WW2 generation - my last surviving relative of that era died when my daughter was 8 months old.
That's not the generation they are on about.
They are on about the boomers and gen X, those of us who have consumed and consumed, the generation who have made flying off on holiday every year "normal", those of us who are paving our gardens and buying SUVs "for safety" etc etc.
I'm 40 (ish) - I grow veg. I'm just about the only one of my contemporaries who does that. I legitimately know people who have astroturfed their garden and now hoover it......
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I have a lot of sympathy for extinction rebellion, we do need to change how we do things, and I think the "extreme" protesters help get things up the political agenda, what annoys me is when they tie it in with being vegan
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Looks like they've gone about things wrong
by disrupting transport to work this morning .
What is shocking is mob violence and those caught
on camera for putting a boot in whilst the chaps on the
floor need prosecuting.
by disrupting transport to work this morning .
What is shocking is mob violence and those caught
on camera for putting a boot in whilst the chaps on the
floor need prosecuting.
primmiemoo
Member
- Location
- Devon
The tendrils of anti-meat propaganda have been allowed to twine and taint through too many people's thought processes.
They even taint and insult veganism.
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Member
- Location
- SW Scotland
Kind of agree but he kicked a guy on the head who was climbing up and as far as the crowd were concerned gloves were off. I have seen one other video where another protester is taken from the top of the train and just escorted away.
As so many jobs around the planet rely on industries and businesses that are polluting the atmosphere either directly or indirectly ( eg travel industry) , I can’t see any governments suddenly making laws to outlaw those industries out of existence.
Force them to reduce emissions yes but it will take time.
But us as individuals will be very reluctant to say I am never going on holiday abroad or cruise using jet aicraft or huge cruise ships. Of course there are those like Packham who will say he is offering “study tours” which are certainly not to be confused with a “holiday”.
Sadly some will be taken in by the above if it suits their agenda!!!
Force them to reduce emissions yes but it will take time.
But us as individuals will be very reluctant to say I am never going on holiday abroad or cruise using jet aicraft or huge cruise ships. Of course there are those like Packham who will say he is offering “study tours” which are certainly not to be confused with a “holiday”.
Sadly some will be taken in by the above if it suits their agenda!!!
betweenthelines
Member
- Location
- southwest
It's not travel to work they're disrupting today, it's people doing what XR want i.e. travelling on low impact mass transport systems rather than individually in carbon emitting cars.. Imagine if vegans were trashing vegetable crops.
Counterproductive and will turn the people who were supporting them against them. I think we are seeing the beginning of the end of the XR protests
Counterproductive and will turn the people who were supporting them against them. I think we are seeing the beginning of the end of the XR protests
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Needs to go to video replay from all angles as to me it looked like he
was kicking an object away which was being thrown at him
whilst the chap was climbing the train.
Totally agree that they do themselves no justice to the general
public by obstructing tbe tube service though.
- Location
- East Tyrone
Interesting interview.
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
So Nigel Farage doesnt want to upset the chemical industries or
the holiday makers but thinks we should reforrest the UK instead.
So instead of finding solutions to the problems use farmers to offset the carbon
polluters.
Of course once you have big scale forests you get the next
group who want to protect it as a national, landscape
and so on,thus nationalising UK farmland.
COMPLETE T*AT
the holiday makers but thinks we should reforrest the UK instead.
So instead of finding solutions to the problems use farmers to offset the carbon
polluters.
Of course once you have big scale forests you get the next
group who want to protect it as a national, landscape
and so on,thus nationalising UK farmland.
COMPLETE T*AT
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Member
- Location
- SW Scotland
If you look at it from the other side it is a stamp straight down the side of his head into his shoulder, XR have compared him to Rosa Parks which has offended nearly everyone.
kfpben
Member
- Location
- Mid Hampshire
I think you need a new friendship group!
Goweresque
Member
- Location
- North Wilts
I'd give them a medal and make them chief of the Met. Police.
n.w
Member
- Location
- western isles
Exactly, i wonder what mastermind thought that idea up.
Shep
Member
- Location
- The Orchard County
I think that they have given themselves just about enough rope now......
Not enough until they have all hung themseleves.
I have just read that some “Showbiz folk”, have admitted they are XR hypocrites!!!!!
betweenthelines
Member
- Location
- southwest
Just heard an XR spokesperson on the radio condemning the people who dragged protesters off the tube trains. And I thought they favoured people taking action to support their own views.
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
When the law lets down a countries civilians the civilians start enforcing their own laws!
n.w
Member
- Location
- western isles
and the polarisation becomes more extreme