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While that is the usual aim of all publicity, inconveniencing literally hundreds of thousands of potential supporters is hardy going to "get people behind it."

The most simplistic post of the month.

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That is far too simplistic to assume that older folk are cynical. Yes, progress towards combatting climate change could certainly have been quicker, though it is really difficult to get everyone on board, given national self-interest, but changes have been and are being made, albeit too slowly...

If you accept that all those kids are that concerned, that is. But I don't think that you could be that naive.

At last something concrete! Perhaps the reason is that to have banned this and that would have been electorally disastrous -we the people would not have wanted to be inconvenienced. Disappointing but I suppose understandable. I am sure that more could and should have been done, however, but can...

Or just clear off, if you don't like it?

Do you really not see the difference between adults concerned about their working lives and impressionable children? Surely you cannot be that naive?

Thanks, I was being totally honest and not hiding behind the anonymity of the internet to make myself look good. I do genuinely feel sad that few folk are really determined to have a go. I am not totally innocent; I will drive abroad and have flown on occasion and probably done a few other...

I don't think that people scoff at them, as you put it, for the protest as such, but for the way it was done. Bribe them with a day off school, and they see their chance - it is human nature afterall. You know as well as I do how few would have been there on a saturday, so please don't make...

You keep saying that nothing has been done; this is far too easy to just trot out these cliches. Anyone can do it. The irony is that I take recycling really seriously, and use the car as little as possible, certainly never to go the 2 miles into town, preferring to walk. Sadly, I am not sure...

Of course we have known about it, as I clearly stated, so why you write come on, as if I had not realised is rather silly. I hope that you are not using the anonymity of the internet to claim your walking credentials. . . .

How many of those kids do you really think showed a genuine commitment to bettering the environment? Yes, of course it gets attention, and we know why, because it gets people talking as you suggest. We also know that action on a Saturday would get less attention, not because the issue is less...

Yet again the sweeping statement with nothing remotely factual. I don't doubt that more could and should have been done over many years after all the warnings of catastrophe, and I share your frustrations to an extent, but simply hitting out with all sorts of vague accusations does you no...

What is pathetic is you making these sweeping generalisations. I doubt very much that governments have ignored the issue, but have to make compromises all round to get agreement, as countries put their own interests first. And as to the simplistic chasm to which you refer - in my experience only...

Yes of course it was, but the intention was to demonstrate in favour of the environment, and the organisers knew full well, that a day off school would attract thousands of kids, who would not have bothered had it been in their free time.

But I made no mention of the publicity aspect, and you have rather misunderstood what I was saying. The post was simplistically trying to say that one issue was more important than the other, and thus justifiable, hence my comment. Of course, It probably would not receive the publicity, because...

Irrespective of the rights or wrongs of the matter under protest, teachers do lay themselves open to accusations of double standards, which I find somewhat unsettling as an ex teacher myself. I believe the NAHT initially backed the campaign, which was not the most sensible position to take.

But he was not saying that; merely that a protest made outside of school would show a far more genuine commitment, if they were to turn up in their free time, but as we all know the numbers would then be drastically lower, which would tell its own story. It is hardly either or: you can be...