Climate activists

They lost the crowd when they started bullying people…ie. damaging people’s property, blocking traffic with people trying to get to work, to healthcare appointments, dropping off / collecting their children and so on…

that isn’t activism, that’s bullying.

activist : a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change.

bully : a blustering, mean, or predatory person who, from a perceived position of relative power, intimidates, abuses, harasses, or coerces people, especially those considered unlikely to defend themselves..

Yer one crying was so cringy. 😂 Greta has a lot to answer for.

In my opinion the climate activists you see engaging in protests such as blocking traffic and invading sports events are slightly touched. I don't mean that as an insult I mean it as a medical diagnosis.

Who I would insult is the journalists and commentators that say these people are doing good work by bringing attention to the 'climate crisis'. They don't really do any such thing because all they do is bring attention to themselves as most sane people as they stare at their TV spend more time wondering what kind of people are they, why are they dressed that way, why are they taking in that strange way, why do they all look like same and act the same, rather than worry about melting ice caps.

Seeing those specific types of people on TV remind one of the types that wear billboards saying The End is Nigh, or some religious zealot with a megaphone on a street corner telling everyone to repent or go to hell, you know people who aren't quite all there, does nothing to get people on side rather encourages people to think that those people predicting climate catastrophe are a little bit dotty and it would be wise to ignore their hysterics, the complete oppose outcome of what they're trying to achieve.

No need to insult anybody.

The article is based on research across a group of academics and it's just part of the discussion.

I don't approve of attacking works of art and letting the air out of tyres but it's the people who do these things that are accountable not the journalists who report on them.

There is no equivalence between them though.

Suffragettes wanted greater control of their own lives, climate activists want control of everyone else's lives.

Climate terrorism? Could be a thing ? And why ? Because the crimes climate activists and enablers commit now are treated with kid gloves… so there is no positive or responsible deterrent.

next one interferes with traffic, arrest, convict and jail…

That's the stamp of a totalitarian state.

We need to have our boundaries pushed a bit, in many different spheres. Complacency is a dangerous default position.

Snowflakes. weak humans and the generation that does everything for likes and attention.

I'd love to know how all these folk get to these events to protest?

Do they live within walking distance of the event they plan to disrupt? If not, they probably including burning some sort of oil to actually get there, be it on a car, train, bus.....

Don't forget - Irish working class concerned mothers etc. dragging their children out into traffic on the busiest Dublin city streets to protest against foreign bogeymen = heroes.

The same people commending them talk about running over climate protesters and how they're a bunch of attention seekers.

So a climate activist not only targets a specific individual but did so on the targets wedding day. No rational person would think that to be a good idea.