Extinction Rebellion

Agree with @SwissChap re tactics.

@Lebowski

If you've even briefly glanced at last years IPCC report: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/spm/
you would know that we have around 10 years to drastically cut our CO2 emissions or we pass the point of no return. Do you really think that slowly bringing down the cost of wind power and letting the market decide will get us there? If not, then what do we do?

Look at your tone. ‘If you’ve even glanced briefly at’ - do you realise how condescending you’re being?

For the record, I’ve been working on energy issues for the last 15 years. I think that a lot more needs to be done. But without people who were well aware of the climate issue putting all their efforts over the last 20-30 years into developing technologies that will enable a transition to a low-carbon economy, we wouldn’t have a hope in hell of getting to carbon neutrality in the next 10-12 years. Thanks to them, wind and solar are right now cost competitive with fossil fuel power plants, which means one of the biggest political impediments to massive deployment has been overcome. Point being that the people who I’ve seen make the biggest difference so far are the ones who have gotten stuck into making changes within the desperately imperfect system that we have.

Samba drummers on bridges in central London are IMHO counter productive because, like the SWP, they enable the recasting of the issue as part of the culture wars, instead of transcending political fault lines to try to make change happen in the time we have. And frankly, the assumption that none of us were engaged or aware before XR started doing their very performative thing is insulting.