And that answer is: fuck off! We don’t respond to demands and if you want to starve yourselves, go right ahead and do it.
More than 400 Extinction Rebellion activists have kicked off a global hunger strike this morning as they call on governments around the world to dramatically step up action against climate change.
They have started congregating outside the political party offices in 22 countries including Australia, Pakistan, Nigeria, the US and the UK, where they are stationing themselves outside the Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Green and Brexit party headquarters.
Words cannot convey just how much I despise these bullying arseholes. Like cult members the world over, they think that the rest of us must be forced to fall into line with their twisted ideology.
They have the vote. They can use it as they see fit. But demands need to be met with robust resistance. For once you give into blackmail, they will come back for more.
Some are planning to go without food for a week and potentially longer in solidarity with the world’s starving…
Meh! Big deal. This is pathetic virtue-signalling. Go on, do the world a favour and starve yourselves to death. We won’t miss you. Indeed, you will be reducing those emissions that you are so bothered about.
“This has to be the climate election. If it’s not about the climate emergency we’re doomed. It’s now or never folks,” said Dr Maxey, who is planning to hunger strike for a week.
No, it isn’t and no we’re not.
“I don’t want to hunger strike. Yet, I don’t see any other option given where we are headed. I don’t want to lie in my bed crying, feeling helpless, not taken seriously,” said 16-year old Christina Dithma, in Germany.
Perhaps if your parents hadn’t propagandised you, you wouldn’t be crying yourself to sleep. But there’s no reason for the rest of us to enable your behaviour. And I certainly won’t.
Giovanni Tamacas, 20, who is leading the action from the US, added: “We are hunger striking because we have no choice. We are being taken to our deaths.”
Bollocks!
“We are therefore demanding that governments commission and be led by the decisions of an independent Citizens’ Assembly on climate and ecological justice,” he said
Rampant bollocks on stilts with brass knobs on. This is cultish behaviour that has no basis in reality or science. Indeed, if these cretins did any actual investigation, they would realise that they have been lied to. Repeatedly. And I seem to recall the idea of Citizens’ assemblies has been tried before. That worked out well, as I recall. Anyone who makes demands needs to be told to fuck off.
No hunger strikes in China? None in Russia? Colour me amazed.
Dear Mr Longrider
“Over 400”, call it 450, world population say 7,500,000,000 and counting, that makes them 0.000006% of the world and they want to tell the world what to do.
These are the same type of idiots who witter on about the 1% who supposedly own the world, yet they want to ‘own’ the world by ordering it about.
Good luck with that.
DP
Does anyone know where they are ‘hunger strike’ protesting in the UK? I’ve been dying (no pun intended) to take my portable bbq on a road trip.
The various party headquarters apparently.
I wish they’d all do a Bobby Sands, I didn’t shed a tear when that scumbag topped himself and I wouldn’t shed a tear for these bastards either.
Selfish buggers: think of all the heat & CO2 generated by 400+ cremations if they go all the way.
Certainly not! They will, of course be biodegradeable.
Get with the program. >};o)
How very Guardian: “We are going on a weeks diet before Christmas, and want to make a fuss about it! Look at me!!! Me!”
And self-defeating, as it will demionstrate they are wishy-washy and have no committment to their bizarre religion.
Alternatively, of course, maybe they follow through: it’s “a start”.
To quote the great Pournelle: “Think of it as Evolution in Action”.
I prescribe a nice cup of tea, and a lie down in a dark room until the hysteria passes.
The political equivalent of ‘I’m going to hold my breath until you give me a biccie!’
Unfortunately, parenting guidlines being what they are these days…
Well the silly buggers offering to starve themselves has a lot of potential to be entertaining. I wonder if we will hear anything from any of these fools in eleven years time? Will they have gone mysteriously quiet or will they just have transferred their attentions to the latest loopy cause du jour?
When XR were clogging up London, I posted this comment elsewhere:
‘I wonder how the inhabitants of 14th century Europe felt about the roads being blocked by wandering bands of Flagellants and, more to the point, whether it would be possible to persuade XR – or at least those members who have clearly left reason far behind – to channel their efforts into mortifying their own flesh rather than travel disruption.’
Several weeks on, it’s amusing to see that someone has apparently managed to do something of the sort; where ostentatious self-starvation appears, surely flagellation cannot be far behind.
(As an interesting aside, there is a theory that the ‘odour of sanctity’ reported around medieval ascetic saints was simply ketones produced by excessive fasting.)