Extinction Rebellion

[fossyant]

I think it was Frankie Boyle who pointed out that Insulate Britain were the most hated people in the country for wanting us to insulate our houses - in an energy crisis - in a climate crisis.

I know they might be inconvenient to some - but someone needs to point out the error of our ways.

I thought they wanted the government to pay for it all - not for us peasants to pay.

 

[Cycleops]

Honestly it was a constant stream, a constant queue waiting to join the main road.

It was inconvenient.

But not for the people ordering stuff

 

[fossyant]

Or the environmental protesters a few years back that kept blocking the Trams in Manchester - why, you'd be better blocking the roads?

 

[matticus]

Getting your food delivered, like with parcels etc, reduces overall miles in vehicles. Your supermarket delivery guy has 20 (?) deliveries in one van so goes from supermarket to delivery round and back to supermarket. Unless you have a really weird, disparate round, this uses less CO2 than every customer travelling to the supermarket themselves

Same goes for Amazon, it reduces CO2 (assuming people were already going to buy what the bought via Amazon). Having a delivery person dropping off to multiple preplanned addresses is a very efficient way to deliver things

The bold text is what I talked about - hence buying locally, or stuff with generally lower carbon footprint.

regarding the rest of your post; if you actually read back, chappy was talking about 3 supermarkets WITHING WALKING DISTANCE! So the home delivery vans must be adding food miles, shirley?

 

[matticus]

I do not pretend to have the answers but after seeing the video of them blocking the road, impeding an ambulance , i can not agree with their tactics at all. just my opinion , thats all

But this lot aren't blocking ambulances!
And the last time they featured on this forum it was blocking private jets - forumites jumped on them for that too!

 

[Drago]

I bet not a single one of them has never ever ordered anything off the interweb.















Not.

 

[Scoosh]

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