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Greta is coming to Bristol this week to join the teenage activists as they march through the city. She will be joining the Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate for it's school strike at College Green on Friday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-51597922

That will cause chaos in the City centre, no doubt.
Any more storms on the way?
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25-02-2020, 02:18 PM
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With any luck, they'll all get piss-wet through.
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25-02-2020, 03:22 PM
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With any luck, they'll all get piss-wet through.
Unfortunately it will be dry in the morning with light rain in the afternoon ..... the ‘show’ will go on!
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01-03-2020, 09:07 PM
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The damage caused is a fine example to others isn't it! A fund raising attempt managed to reach £9,000 the intended total of £20,000:

"The combination of thousands of people and heavy rain turned much of the grass into mud, angering some.

Gavin Mountjoy commented on Facebook: "Oh the irony, hundreds of people turning up to talk about our planet dying end up destroying a green area."

Barrie Moore, also on Facebook, said: "The organisers of this march should be made to pay for the damage."

Jon Usher, head of partnerships of Bristol-based charity Sustrans, set up a GoFundMe page after the march ended, aiming to raise £20,000.

By Sunday morning more than £9,000 had been donated."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-51696203


What do you think, should the organisers of this march be made to pay for the damage?
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01-03-2020, 09:42 PM
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The damage caused is a fine example to others isn't it! A fund raising attempt managed to reach £9,000 the intended total of £20,000:

"The combination of thousands of people and heavy rain turned much of the grass into mud, angering some.

Gavin Mountjoy commented on Facebook: "Oh the irony, hundreds of people turning up to talk about our planet dying end up destroying a green area."

Barrie Moore, also on Facebook, said: "The organisers of this march should be made to pay for the damage."

Jon Usher, head of partnerships of Bristol-based charity Sustrans, set up a GoFundMe page after the march ended, aiming to raise £20,000.

By Sunday morning more than £9,000 had been donated."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-51696203


What do you think, should the organisers of this march be made to pay for the damage?
Too bloody true. And those members of Extinction Rebellion should pay for the damage to the lawn at the university and the damage to the floor of a branch of Barclays Bank where they tipped up barrow loads of muck in the main banking area. Paying for cleaning of another branch of Barclays where they sprayed fake oil over the front of the building wouldn't go amiss either. The perpetrators of such acts should be rounded up by the police instead of the police watch them do it and then jailed for vandalism.
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01-03-2020, 10:08 PM
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Too bloody true. And those members of Extinction Rebellion should pay for the damage to the lawn at the university and the damage to the floor of a branch of Barclays Bank where they tipped up barrow loads of muck in the main banking area. Paying for cleaning of another branch of Barclays where they sprayed fake oil over the front of the building wouldn't go amiss either. The perpetrators of such acts should be rounded up by the police instead of the police watch them do it and then jailed for vandalism.
Quite agree with you, anyone else would find themselves arrested and in court for criminal damage. It amazes me they were not, although we all know the UK has gone soft on punishment!
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It occured to me the other day while driving past rows and rows and brand new vehicles at the docks in Grimsby what will happen to all these new vehicles when they become obsolete and are replaced by electric vehicles. Just about every port in the UK has its own vehicle distribution points, and within a five mile radius of where I live there are at least four massive vehicle distribution companies all containing hundreds of acres of vehicles waiting for despatch.

Even considering a ramped change over to electric vehicles the waste will be staggering, and to replace all those vehicles is going to put so much strain on the earth's resources, are we not defeating the object of the exercise? Not to mention the change over from fossil burning gas appliances to all electric forms of house heating, where perfectly good heating systems will be ripped out and discarded. I don't think this has been thought through.......

How much energy and pollution is going to be created in the production of all these new modes of transport and heating systems? A hell of a lot more than the fossil fuels we are using at present.
Not to mention the mining and transportation of the raw materials at a time when we should be making things last longer and repairing rather than replacing.
Has Greta considered this? If so, what is her solution?
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02-03-2020, 11:46 PM
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Has Greta considered this? If so, what is her solution?

No, she hasn't been told what to say about this.
 
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