Did the online,carbon footprint test. Questions don't have enough answers, really Buying food from this country,yes,all apart from bananas,you folks know I grow a lot of my own fruit/veg
Flying, nowhere to tick,I dont fly anywhere,(don't have a passport) yes I have a diesel estate,it told me to cycle,that even if I'm not bothered about saving the planet,it will get me fit,I live uphill, near the Downs as you know, walked there yesterday with dogs, daughter, grandkids. Dog on my back then and cycle 80 miles to the vet then, I "lost"points by having pets. Gas boiler a few years old,I am meant to get rid of it,get alternative heat. Slap on the wrist for not recycling food waste,( our council doesn't) anything left over, becomes something else. I usually batch cook. However my foot print is 20 ton,a lot less than "average" according to the chart.
I take your point about not all protesters necessarily being able to afford double glazing. But it was an ideal opportunity for him to explain this, especially if he genuinely was in that position. I suppose we'll get a better idea of the type of person engaged in these protests when their cases come to court
I heard an interview with an Extinction Rebellion member on Radio 4. The interviewer was asking her personal questions about how green her own lifestyle was rather allowing her to explain about the protests and what they were intended to achieve. Almost every time I hear an interview like this now the same thing happens. He who is without sin doesn't especially stack up when you're working minimum wage while Bezos is popping into space for a jolly.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I thought this was quite a considered view on the protests. I do worry that they're not going about it in the most sensible way, however much I hate the predictable reaction from some corners of the media and from the government. Having said that, future generations will be incredulous that people were trying to save the planet from an extinction event and we decided the best thing to do was find new ways to lock them up...
The more it becomes acceptable to use undemocratic methods in an attempt to solve society’s and the world’s problems, the more you weaken democracy and the more power you put in the hands of autocrats, dictators and tyrants.
Look around the world at the regimes just waiting to see democracy fail.
What chance will there be of saving the planet then?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Protest isn't undemocratic. I'm not even sure being a public nuisance is undemocratic as such. Outlawing protest, in any other country, would be seen as undemocratic.
Of course protest isn’t undemocratic 😮 lawful protest is a democratic right … I’m all in favour of protest and the right to do so lawfully should be vigorously protected …. but the right for everyone else to go about their day unobstructed by me or anyone else, no matter how strongly I feel about something, should also be protected.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Civil disobedience is always going to inconvenience somebody though. Confining protest to the times and places that the government can ignore it is as good as stopping it happening altogether.
I struggle to understand how the fight for rights in undemocratic times is equivalent to protests to get social housing insulated. Former you have no rights to representation. The insulation protesters have a vote. There's legally defined actions for petitions to government both national and regional. A petition with enough signatures results in a government response, get more and there's a Westminster debate. There's democratic means available to these people. Comparing them or even mentioning them in the same sentence as that fighting for suffrage and representation and human rights is 100% wrong in my opinion. Over the years there's been very, very brave people fighting power and vested interest without anything in their favour but their determination. Both men and women have earnt our democratic system at great cost. These people are simply disruptors not protesters in the sense of those fighting fire representation and the vote. I do hope that's not something they think they're equivalent to.
IMHO there's been a big change in protests over recent years. In the past most protests are located where the subject of their opposition or at locations of power such as parliaments and legislatures or head office of companies. Of late there's protest actions against unrelated areas. Glueing protesters to railways to win the outcome of government commitment to a faster act on climate. Rail travel is probably part of the solution instead of individual cars. Or blocking motorways to get social housing insulated. I think that's wrong. There's honesty in protests against or for something at the place that thing happens. Protests at HoC makes sense and is honest IMHO. Protesting on motorways to make a point on insulation and persuade government to act is dishonest, unfocused or about disruption more than affecting change.
YMMV but like with extinction rebellion this insulate shower have turned me off their protests. I no longer listen to them indeed I have not fully read up on what they want. Their actions mean I do not think they're even worth listening to. I know everyone where I work have this view. Some at work are living in social housing and they still don't support the protesters. That IMHO means the protest has failed.
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Buying food from this country,yes,all apart from bananas,you folks know I grow a lot of my own fruit/veg
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/05/the-guardian-view-on-insulate-britain-the-art-of-protest
Look around the world at the regimes just waiting to see democracy fail.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
IMHO there's been a big change in protests over recent years. In the past most protests are located where the subject of their opposition or at locations of power such as parliaments and legislatures or head office of companies. Of late there's protest actions against unrelated areas. Glueing protesters to railways to win the outcome of government commitment to a faster act on climate. Rail travel is probably part of the solution instead of individual cars. Or blocking motorways to get social housing insulated. I think that's wrong. There's honesty in protests against or for something at the place that thing happens. Protests at HoC makes sense and is honest IMHO. Protesting on motorways to make a point on insulation and persuade government to act is dishonest, unfocused or about disruption more than affecting change.
YMMV but like with extinction rebellion this insulate shower have turned me off their protests. I no longer listen to them indeed I have not fully read up on what they want. Their actions mean I do not think they're even worth listening to. I know everyone where I work have this view. Some at work are living in social housing and they still don't support the protesters. That IMHO means the protest has failed.