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The point I am making the message turns folk like me off and I get the problem. That's the bit that your not getting.
Quoting XR is the problem. Your talking gobbledy gook to most people. I'll be more blunt. It looks like a metropolitan middle class protest. I know it's more than that but also know what it looks like. Yes I am paying attention.
Social media campaigns which are part of there methods just gather the like minded. Honestly they turn as many people off as they gather.
Looking at the XR website it is way too alarmist. We are not about to go extinct. Our civilisations may flounder in extreme climate change and global population maybe unsustainable but we are not there yet. A 5 degree temp rise could do it.
There was one line we must keep temp rise below 1.5 degrees to save life on earth. Life on earth survived the Permian extinction event that was a 15 degree temp rise and some larger reptiles survived which turned into the dinosaurs. Give me a break from this alarmist nonsense. Climate change is real I don't deny that or its consequences but the claptrap being spouted is just that.
Thats all I have to say on this.