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Old October 11th 19, 03:25 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Who are Extinction Rebellion - the 'eco-activists' grounding planes &
shutting down cities

https://www.rt.com/news/470647-who-a...ion-rebellion/

10 Oct, 2019 18:43 / Updated 18 hours ago

Excerpts:

"
Calling for civil disobedience in the face of climate change, Extinction
Rebellion protesters have been remarkably successful in thrusting themselves
into the headlines. But what is the movement all about? And who's behind it?

Best known for shutting down the streets of London in April, Extinction
Rebellion upped its game on Thursday, with a protester affiliated with the
group grounding an Aer Lingus flight from London City Airport to Dublin.
Another protester - Paralympian James Brown - clambered onto the roof of a
British Airways plane and refused to budge, prompting police to eventually
remove him.
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"
An appeal to authority

Central to all of the group's demands is a radical expansion of state power..
Reducing greenhouse gases to net zero - if a state-led effort - would give
government the power to restrict or outright deny its citizens freedom of
travel, freedom to choose their own diets, and freedom to build their homes
however they want. In the US, draft text of 'Green New Deal' legislation
gives a sneak-peek at just how all-encompassing this would be, working
wealth redistribution and reparations for "historic oppression" into the mix
for good measure.
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Who's behind it all?

Here's where things get interesting. Exploding onto the scene with a
recognizable logo, coherent imagery across multiple continents, a dominant
social media presence and a slick website, the leaders of Extinction
Rebellion are no rabble of bong-smoking malcontents.
"

"
In truth, Bradbrook has made a career out of activism, and has for two
decades worked as a professional campaigner. Speaking at a talk in 2016, she
admitted that this role is "mostly about securing your own paycheck." As
director of Citizens Online - a charity campaigning for "digital inclusion,"
Bradbrook has worked with BT to lobby the British government.

Joining Bradshaw are former organic farmer Roger Hallam, and also involved
are Occupy London veteran Tasmin Osmond - a granddaughter of British
nobility - and ex-UN worker Laura Reeves.

Behind the movement is a bulwark of elite cash. Heiress Aileen Getty has
kicked in nearly £500,000 of her family's oil wealth to the group via the
Climate Emergency Fund, claiming that "disruption" is necessary to take on
climate change. According to its own data, Extinction Rebellion has raised
just short of a million pounds in large donations since March, from groups
like the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, set up by a hedge fund
manager and run by a former vice-chairman of billionaire financier George
Soros' Open Society Institute.
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Comment:

Greta Thunberg has stated "ecosystems are collapsing." Ecosystems are
associated with biodiversity and species extinction. There are Laws to
protect "endangered species". By psychological conditioning we have been
conditioned to associate species loss with death of 'sentient beings'. While
99.9+% of all species that have ever lived have disappeared, ecologists
discover new species daily. Can the existence of a species, say of some
desert lizard in California be mitigated? There has been some loose talk
about using restoring the mastodon and mammoth by using recovered genomes.
Likewise, it would be possible to obtain the genomic record from some
endangered species, store the sequenced DNA genome in digital storage,
available to all geneticists for recovery later. Drop the "protected species' Law for that lizard and don't worry about it. The value of the genes in any lost species can be evaluated. There are genes and gene products that might be of ecological value.

Professional ecology teaches that the root cause of extinction is speciation
and species competition. Homo sapiens are just another species. But our
sentience is just less than that of the "Gods". Just as with "managed
democracy" we could have "managed ecology" and universal genomics. We can
get rid of the Tsetse fly and preserve useful species. 'Intelligent design'
is engineering terminology that has been expropriated by creationists.
Using 'Intelligent design' we could progress into a future where DNA genomic
data, stored on microchips could be transported to habitable planets. Forget
"Avatar", life on extraterrestrial planets is still at the microbial stage.
Let's exercise our Godlike nature and conquer the galaxy. Fermi calculated
that in only 50 million years a technological society could colonize the
galaxy. Forget the "Fermi Paradox", it is just one more example of the
false sophistry of Carl Sagan.
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Old October 11th 19, 05:06 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Who ? Don't know don't care.
But I like that they block bridges so it will be easy to just grab them and
throw them over the edge.








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