[News] Water canons are the answer

Tokyohands said:

What is pathetic is people shooting down those who are trying to raise awareness of the issue. She's 17, so what, she probably speaks more sense because she's in a position to look at it impartially, whereas the people in charge are more concerned about how their backhanders will be affected.

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beorhthelm said:

so who is up for no more air travel as Miss Thunberg proposes? and replacing all gas fired heating in homes, no more petrol/diesel, required in the next ~5 years to meet the objectives of Extinction Rebellion.

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goldstone said:

And now we have politicians listening to a teenage Norwegian girl telling us what she thinks needs to be done. She's 17 for chrissake. A bloody teenager. Why the hell should anyone listen to her? She should be hauled back to school. If she really wants to address the problem, then she should go and lecture the countries which are the real problems, China, India, the USA and Germany. Pathetic.

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goldstone said:

And now we have politicians listening to a teenage Norwegian girl telling us what she thinks needs to be done. She's 17 for chrissake. A bloody teenager. Why the hell should anyone listen to her? She should be hauled back to school. If she really wants to address the problem, then she should go and lecture the countries which are the real problems, China, India, the USA and Germany. Pathetic.

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Commander said:

Because a) her generation is the one that all this stuff is going to effect, and b) because your generation has done a ****ing appalling job of things, so why on earth should anyone listen to you?

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The Clamp said:

Unfortunately the Beorthelm’s and Goldstone’s of this world far outweigh the intelligent, forward thinking ones. A great shame.

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Tom Hark said:

Would be more impressed if they took this kind of action in the countries contributing most to the causes of global warming: China, US, India, Russia...

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beorhthelm said:

why resort to personal insults, when i have been addressing head on the reality of the situation, what is being asked to achieve the objectives?

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rippleman said:

And this is why the planet is doomed.

It matters not what we do in UK and, indeed, Europe. The US has a President that doesn't believe in science at all, moron that he is, and the largest polluters China and India are too selfish and greedy to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels.

Can't recall who recently said "We are the first generation to recognise that we are destroying the planet. And probably the last generation that can do anything about it". But we aren't. Is it too late? Hopefully not.

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rippleman said:

And this is why the planet is doomed.

It matters not what we do in UK and, indeed, Europe. The US has a President that doesn't believe in science at all, moron that he is, and the largest polluters China and India are too selfish and greedy to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels.

Can't recall who recently said "We are the first generation to recognise that we are destroying the planet. And probably the last generation that can do anything about it". But we aren't. Is it too late? Hopefully not.

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beorhthelm said:

so who is up for no more air travel as Miss Thunberg proposes? and replacing all gas fired heating in homes, no more petrol/diesel, required in the next ~5 years to meet the objectives of Extinction Rebellion.

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The Clamp said:

I wasn’t insulting you. I was describing you.

You were clearly trying to ridicule the student so you don’t have the right to act all hurt when you get called out on it.

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beorhthelm said:

so who is up for no more air travel as Miss Thunberg proposes? and replacing all gas fired heating in homes, no more petrol/diesel, required in the next ~5 years to meet the objectives of Extinction Rebellion.

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beorhthelm said:

where is the ridicule? Thunberg proposes end to air travel except in emergency, Extinction Rebellion demand zero carbon emissions by 2025. are these not facts? i note the practical consequence and ask who is willing to sign up to these. clearly you arent, for your pontificating seem resigned to do nothing as its too late.

we dont need to convince politicans, most are sold on "doing something", we need to sell to the general public what that means, so they acquiesce to the future without many things we expect in modern life.

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The Clamp said:

Logic dictates we have simply not got enough time to save the human race. We are done.

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goldstone said:

What absolute bollocks. You're a real cheery person.

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The Merry Prankster said:

I thought she spoke a lot of sense. Which parts of her pitch did you disagree with and why?

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beorhthelm said:

where is the ridicule? Thunberg proposes end to air travel except in emergency, Extinction Rebellion demand zero carbon emissions by 2025. are these not facts? i note the practical consequence and ask who is willing to sign up to these. clearly you arent, for your pontificating seem resigned to do nothing as its too late.

we dont need to convince politicans, most are sold on "doing something", we need to sell to the general public what that means, so they acquiesce to the future without many things we expect in modern life.

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goldstone said:

Just read her speech. Basically spouting the same old stuff. Nothing new there. Sure we could do with lowering emissions, but it is not the catastrophe she describes. And the places to start her haranguing are China, India and the USA. Whatever the UK does will make not one jot of difference unless those countries follow suit. And will they? No. And the biggest problem, which she conveniently chooses to ignore. is population growth. If that is brought down to zero we'll be OK.


I just can't stand the idea of some uppity teenager believing she can tell the world how to fix this imagined problem. And worse still I can't understand why the world listens to her.

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