Thousands gather to block London bridges in climate rebellion
Source: The Guardian
Protesters plan to close five main bridges across Thames over extinction crisis
Matthew Taylor
Sat 17 Nov 2018 06.11 EST Last modified on Sat 17 Nov 2018 09.19 EST
Thousands of people have descended on central London for a day of rebellion in protest over the looming climate crisis.
People began massing on five bridges over the River Thames from 10am on Saturday. By 11.30am organisers said all five target bridges in central London had been occupied.
The move is part of a campaign of mass civil disobedience organised by a new group, Extinction Rebellion, which wants to force governments to treat the threats of climate breakdown and extinction as a crisis.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/17/thousands-gather-to-block-london-bridges-in-climate-rebellion
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Go Brits!!!
calimary
(81,440 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,624 posts)Gov Brown said, "This is the new abnormal". We must now expect the unexpected. We are living in Climate Change NOW!
BlueWI
(1,736 posts)We're behind schedule in the USA.
riversedge
(70,285 posts)calimary
(81,440 posts)Climate Breakdown - National Days (plural) of Action.
I started referring to it as climate crisis awhile ago because Im convinced thats what it IS. This IS a CRISIS. Compounded and grossly aggravated by a multi-layered, multi-faceted Constitutional crisis.
Jen Bush once called trump The Chaos Candidate. Make that The Crisis Candidate. Or even The Calamity Candidate. A lot of his fans, the Christianists, undoubtedly believe in the End Times. Well, Im wondering if maybe theyre excited about all this because they believe the End Times will bring about the return of The Messiah. I remember being horrified to hear Ronald Reagans Interior Secretary, the detestable cockeyed religious fanatic James Watt, stating our loud, on the record, that when the last tree is felled, Jesus will come back. The INTERIOR SECRETARY said that. And felt that. And believed that. And meant that in all seriousness.
Whats scary for me now is that weve got a so-called vice pResident whos a religious fanatic. Right now.