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Did you really say 'climate change is killing your brothers in Africa every day' to a couple of guys in South London?

I tried the Africa angle - climate change is killing your brothers in Africa every day

Wow

Hopefully they’ll eat up all their dinner tonight to help with world hunger as well.

Can't tell if you're trolling or not

Yeah sorry I was being sarcastic.

Everyone creams themselves over the suffragettes, but I'm sure they did something like 500 bombings. MLK gets rep today for non-violent protest, but at the time everyone bitched about him, and would the Civil Rights cause have been the same impact with out all the non-peaceful events?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellors-mansion-house-reforms-to-boost-typical-pension-by-over-1000-a-year

To level the playing field, the Chancellor and the Lord Mayor have supported an agreement between nine of the UK’s largest Defined Contribution pension providers, committing them to the objective of allocating 5% of assets in their default funds to unlisted equities by 2030. These providers represent over £400 billion in assets and the majority of the UK’s Defined Contribution workplace pensions market.

Anyone got a dumb idea for a tech startup?

Get Jennifer Arcuri on the phone!

Actually I did. Thought it was worth it for the shock value, to distract them and get them to talk about the issue, instead of just opposing everything I said.

Thought it was worth it for the shock value

And do you still think this?

It might have led to a conversation about how the industrial revolution led not only to colonialism but also the present day crop failures and famines. Africans suffering twice over. But the mood had soured with me apparently enforcing a law. That's a no-no. So we didn't get around to discussing how the rich white northern hemisphere people don't seem to care about the southern hemisphere people who are dying. I suspect we would do 100 times more if those people were white. Nearly all black Londoners have family in Africa or the West Indies (sometimes including actual brothers) so I don't think there's anything wrong with referring to 'your brothers in Africa'. But I don't suppose these guys wanted to hear that idling Range Rovers are making the famines worse. They really ought to be taking up cycling and joining XR/JSO, but I don't think I've ever seen a black climate protester in the UK.

but I don't think I've ever seen a black climate protester in the UK.

Erm.. yikes.

I'd probably feel the same way if I'd been excluded from school and beaten up by the police

your brothers in Africa

Nearly all black Londoners have family in Africa or the West Indies (sometimes including actual brothers)

I don't think I've ever seen a black climate protester in the UK

Steady. This reads a bit shit.
You made a good point about about the car, the climate and the damage that it does.

I don't think I've ever seen a black climate protester in the UK.

Are you trolling? Did it not even occur to you that if you haven't seen any, the problem might be you? And then, maybe, to check before saying this?

Protest outside BBC HQ

What, specifically, was meant to be shocking?

I’m not sure I was particularly thrilled the last time someone referred to my family in China.

If you behave like this regularly I’m surprised you’ve not been hospitalised along the way. Do you really care about the emissions or do you just crave confrontation? Is this a form of self harm? Are you looking for a fight?

Clearly AI generated, everyone knows only white fixie skidders protest.

Are you looking for a fight?

He's deffo looking for a fight on here that's for sure.

"I've got half a mind to walk around the area to see if he's parked somewhere else."

That is a bit much

Lol at this conversation, I generally have lower expectations when I ask the cars at school gates or pulled over vans to stop idling, general expectations are to get told to do one rather than a meaningful conversation on historic wrongs, the importance of a just transition and conversation to JSO membership.

Wow, and you’ve never had your teeth kicked through the back of your head?
You might consider rethinking some of the things you say/post in future.
Quite frankly I’m tempted to come idle my work truck outside your gaff now…

Quite frankly I’m tempted to come idle my work truck outside your gaff now…

Sounds similar to a lot of the knobhead replies to XR/JSO to be honest

Maybe we can copy Hong Kong proposed approach to smokers and stare at idlers
https://news.sky.com/story/hong-kongers-urged-to-stare-at-smokers-in-a-disapproving-way-to-help-create-a-tobacco-free-city-12921254?

Instead of a stare, which could kill the occupants in my case, I'd love one of those portable EMP weapons

Staring disapprovingly without doing anything is pretty much standard practice over here anyway.

JesuisPaddington.