Soldato
I think that putting them into the role of parent would make most of us leave home or emulate Lizzie Bordens axe technique.
"Just stop oil"
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I think that putting them into the role of parent would make most of us leave home or emulate Lizzie Bordens axe technique.
Don
The Fringe, to their credit, have refused to kneel to protestors over one of the sponsors being (loosely) related to oil. They don't really have a choice, they'll go bust otherwise. Couple of book festivals have already collapsed due to them terminating sponsorship with the firm they were targetting.
As you say, targetting their own - can't remember the environmentalist that spoke out the other day, but they were saying to stop it
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Ahhh it was Green Party Leader Harvie - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck559wyxg59o
As you say, targetting their own - can't remember the environmentalist that spoke out the other day, but they were saying to stop it
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Ahhh it was Green Party Leader Harvie - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck559wyxg59o
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I’m pretty sure Alistair Campbell covered this in his podcast and basically dismantled the campaign groups claim by claim.
There is a certain irony with the name ‘fossil free books’ given the trees felled to make said books would have been felled with machinery powered by fossil fuels, transported on the back of a diesel lorry to be processed multiple times at separate sites before making their way to a printer and finally a shop, all powered by fossil fuels.
We all know we need to ween ourselves off dinosaur juice but it’s not just something you can turn off overnight when the whole economy runs on the black stuff. These protest groups are not helpful, if anything they are counter productive.
Targeting the arts is just going to lead the arts to be cancelled, not the oil, I just can’t see how they can’t see that.
There is a certain irony with the name ‘fossil free books’ given the trees felled to make said books would have been felled with machinery powered by fossil fuels, transported on the back of a diesel lorry to be processed multiple times at separate sites before making their way to a printer and finally a shop, all powered by fossil fuels.
We all know we need to ween ourselves off dinosaur juice but it’s not just something you can turn off overnight when the whole economy runs on the black stuff. These protest groups are not helpful, if anything they are counter productive.
Targeting the arts is just going to lead the arts to be cancelled, not the oil, I just can’t see how they can’t see that.
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Soldato
All their campaigning does is make me want a V8 even more.
I was just thinking the same
Soldato
This is the Alistair Campbell that got the U.K. involved in a multi-decade war which was a total waste of blood and treasure through being a pathological liar?
The suffragettes gave up their activism when WW1 started and it was towards the end of that war that limited female suffrage was introduced.
Women's roles during the war achieved more than the activism that had preceded it. Ditto for men (who achieved much wider sufferage)... the war made it a lot harder to say that more men shouldn't get the vote.
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Enough of this absolute idiots
Reminds me of the protests that were going on a couple of years ago with someone on top of a train , all it did was turn the public against their cause.
Soldato
Utter POS.
Caporegime
This is beyond a bloody joke. Stonehenge? Seriously? Was it not carbon neutral enough for them?
Soldato
I like protests, it shows me democracy is still alive.
This is not a protest, this is some halfwits vandalising some ancient rocks. As far as I'm aware no fossil fuels were used in the transporting of the stones to the site.
What next? They going to shout at the frickin moon?
Caporegime
They are losing support all over the place, even from formerly aligned environmentalist groups.
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