teacake - // What I'm really saying is that the OP is proof that we need protests. //
No-one with an ounce of sense would ever deny that protest is necessary in a civilised society.
The problem is, the protest needs to not only have a clear direction and end result in mind, it should also provide from the beginning, a reasonable expectation that it will be understood by the people to whom it is directed, and a further expectation that its aims can be met.
The current protests meet none of these criteria - they simply alienate the people supposedly having their attention drawn to the reason for the protest, and since no government has or ever will respond to mob rule, they have no chance of a result for their actions.
// If you have people who have not got a clue about whats going on, and what may happen, should there be no action, then god help us:0) //
That view joins the protesters in insulting the intelligence and grasp of reality by the British public.
Anyone who is likely to be interested in the notion of climate change has had several decades to acquaint themselves with the available information and make an informed choice about their intention to act on it, or not.
The idea that everyone is suddenly going to have the scales fall from their eyes because a load of mob rulers have decided to disrupt the lives and jobs of a large number of people, is the sort of facile thinking that makes people think that this kind of action actually changes anything.
The people are aware, and disruption and anarchy are not going to improve the chances of action anywhere by anyone, so the protesters would be better employed in finding ways to alter opinion in a positive way, instead of knee-jerk mob action which does draw attention to their cause - but all of it is negative.