Climate activists have been busy since 7 October. The demands for ‘action now’ on global warming continue, but affairs in the Middle East are proving to be a distraction for Just Stop Oil. Cries of ‘free Gaza’, ‘ceasefire now’, and even ‘from the river to the sea’ – a chant, purported to be a cry for peace and ‘solidarity’ with Palestinians, but used by those who want to wipe Israel off the map – have now joined, and at times drowned out, the usual green slogans.
A new report has found that the top one per cent of earners are disproportionately driving the climate crisis, and researchers are calling for substantially higher taxes on income, wealth and corporate profits to fix it.
After five months of consecutive global temperature records, climate scientists say global warming has become an equity issue as much as an environmental crisis.
The BBC has been accused of “rank hypocrisy” after a reporter racked up an estimated 20,000 air miles to ask why “despite all the green promises, we’re using more fossil fuels than ever before”.
London-based Richard Bilton travelled to Europe, the Middle East and the United States for an episode of BBC One’s Panorama in which he claimed “the world is saying one thing and doing another” on climate change.
A bear in Poland’s Carpathian Mountains has mauled an eco-activist who was trying to prove the animal’s lair was abandoned due to logging.
The German was airlifted to hospital following the attack and was said to be in a serious but stable condition.
He had travelled to the bear’s den alongside another activist from the Wild Carpathians Initiative to check if the area had been affected by logging.
NEW – Greta Thunberg: "No climate justice on occupied land."pic.twitter.com/SjXTt1lgBP
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) November 12, 2023
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Earlier this week in Panama, a retired American lawyer named Kenneth Darlington was involved in a deadly confrontation with environmental protesters, leaving two dead and raising profound questions about vigilante justice. Darlington, 77, was arrested and charged following the incident, which occurred amid a roadblock on the Pan-American Highway in the Chame district.
Climate doomsdayers Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took a 40-minute private jet ride to a Katy Perry concert this past weekend. The Sun revealed Tuesday that the Sussexes flew in a Texan oil heir’s private plane along with actress Cameron Diaz and her husband Benji Madden, as well as actress Zoe Saldana.
Ironically, for years, the pampered prince has been preaching about society reaching “net zero” goals, warning of the supposed impending end to life on earth and fretting that “the world is on fire.” Harry even founded Travalyst, an organization dedicated to promoting “sustainable” travel — the antithesis of private jets.
A paramedic responding to a “life-and-death” emergency begged police to let him through a Just Stop Oil protest.
Sixty activists from the eco group spent 30 minutes slow-marching on Waterloo Bridge on Wednesday morning, causing the busy carriageway to be shut in both directions for an hour.
Two Just Stop Oil eco-zealots have been arrested after smashing the protective glass on the Rokeby Venus painting at the National Gallery.
The activists sparked fury when a video was uploaded showing them hammering the glass of the priceless oil painting, shouting ‘it is time for deeds not words’.
The 17th-century painting, by Spanish artist Diego Velazquez, is the same artwork slashed by Canadian suffragette Mary Richardson with a butcher’s knife more than 100 years ago.
BREAKING: Climate cult strikes again
Just Stop Oil lunatics took hammers and attacked Rokeby Venus, painted in 1651 ($90M) in the London National Gallery pic.twitter.com/97VumWIWeg
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 6, 2023
Dozens of Just Stop Oil activists have been arrested while blocking another major road in London with activists deliberately going “floppy” when police tried to remove them.
The A4 West Cromwell Road in Kensington was brought to a standstill at about 9am on Wednesday, when about 45 protesters demonstrated on the thoroughfare — the group’s second slow march in the capital this week.
In 2022, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned us it was “code red for humanity” due to supposed global warming caused by CO2 emissions from human activities
This year, Mr. Guterres upped the rhetoric when he claimed: “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”
h/t DS
Greta,
We, the Israeli Forum of Women in the Environment, are deeply hurt, shocked and disappointed with your tweets and posts regarding Gaza, which are appallingly one-sided, ill-informed, superficial and are in complete contrast to your ability to deep dive into details and get to the bottom of complex issues – at best.
But to be more accurate, by expressing them you take sides with terrorists, with the worst and darkest representatives of humans, and plainly – with the wrong side of history.
Do you think Hamas represents human rights and freedom? Think again!
Fridays for Future claim that Hamas’s Oct 7 massacre was ‘rooted in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians’ called a ‘crude distortion of history’
The movement started by climate activist Greta Thunberg has been accused of “demonising Israel” after it claimed Western governments had brainwashed citizens into backing the country.
Josef Schuster, the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, an advocacy group, accused Fridays for Future of peddling conspiracy theories, as he called for the German branch to sever ties with the wider international movement.
The group earlier this week alleged that Western media outlets were “funded by imperialist governments who stand with Israel”.
Just Stop Oil protesters have thrown orange powder on the huge replica dinosaur the forms the centrepiece of the Natural History Museum.
The Titanosaur: Life as the Biggest Dinosaur exhibition was closed to the public on Thursday after the men, both medics, staged a protest beneath a 121ft replica skeleton.
Visitors watched on as Dr Will Stableforth, a consultant gastroenterologist, and Steve Fay, a physiotherapist, covered the gigantic model in orange cornstarch.
The remains of at least 189 decaying bodies were found and removed from a Colorado funeral home, up from about 115 reported when the bodies were discovered two weeks ago, officials said Tuesday.
The remains were found by authorities responding to a report of a foul odor at the Return to Nature funeral home inside a decrepit building in the small town of Penrose, Colorado.
