Climate Change Protesters - What Do They Actually Want?

[dave50]

We have seen them getting away with blocking the streets and generally causing trouble but what do they want? There have been no specific demands and no ideas about what they want the government to do that is over and above what the government is doing already, which is a lot more than many other countries. It seems to me that they have been hijacked by anarchists and anti-capitalists who see that these environmentalists can be used to further their own extreme views.

[dannyk13]

Anarchy.

[retrocop]

//It seems to me that they have been hijacked by anarchists and anti-capitalists who see that these environmentalists can be used to further their own extreme views.//

I think that sums it up nicely. :-(

[spathiphyllum]

"Anarchy"

Nice ideology for maybe 3 days but then what?

[dannyk13]

They will continue protesting about anything that takes their fancy.

[Mamyalynne]

Certain groups have issued a list of what they want.

Here's one.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47991237

Other groups have probably done similar.

[Bobbisox1]

It's the 'new ' thing 'to be seen doing the more private the occasion the better the Brownie points they get!

[spathiphyllum]

Secretly.. They just want to storm area 51.

[retrocop]

Anarchy has been going on in this country for longer than 3 days. Whatever the alleged discontent there will be the SWP ready for a scrap. They were about at Greenham Common and the anti-capitalist demos. They care not for what the cause is about. Just anarchy under a different name.

[dave50]

I did hear about one of the group saying that he would like there to be a prolonged recession to help deal with climate change and that people's jobs and livelihoods were a price worth paying (sorry no link). Obviously a nut case.

[retrocop]

//Secretly.. They just want to storm area 51.//

I hope they try.The USAAF sentries are all on the alert and locked and loaded.
There are signs all round the perimeter wire clearly stating that 'Trespassers may be met with lethal Force'.
What goes on inside should stay inside.

[chelle7272]

Extinction Rebellion's website states the following aims:

Government must tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency, working with other institutions to communicate the urgency for change.
Government must act now to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2025.
Government must create, and be led by, the decisions of a citizens' assembly on climate and ecological justice.

[dannyk13]

//Government must tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency//
The Government did this ages ago.

[dannyk13]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48126677

[gingejbee]

I'd be quite supportive of them if they took their protests to some of the climate-change "baddies"...say, Russia, China and US.
May not return, of course.

[Mamyalynne]

From the link..

//This proposal, which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who tabled the motion, said it was "a huge step forward".

Environment Secretary Michael Gove acknowledged there was a climate "emergency" but did not back Labour's demands to declare one.//

[dannyk13]

https://www.plantbasednews.org/news/uk-parliament-declare-climate-emergency

[Mamyalynne]

Let's hope progress happens and quickly.

[fbg40]

They seem to think that somebody in government can wave a magic wand and get things sorted. Somebody in government should wave a magic wand and sort them out !! In my humble opinion of course.
FBG40 (Feeling rather hot)

[dannyk13]

Lynne, I don't think this is a matter that can be hurried.Procedures that are abandoned must first be replaced by an alternative.Not talking about small things like plastic bags etc.

[youngmafbog]

Just get the Rozzers in to clear the streets instead of dancing with them.

Come on Priti, get stuck into the great unwashed and waster middle class kids with nothing between the ears.