Evoking images of Frederick Douglass, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the climate-hysteric group Extinction Rebellion has called for “the largest act of civil resistance in U.K. history” to begin in April of 2020. In a video released on Tuesday, Extinction Rebellion spokesperson Nuala Gathercole Lam asserted that COP26, which recently concluded in Glasgow, Scotland, had failed and called for “prolonged, disruptive, non-violent civil resistance” as a way to combat the so-called climate crisis.
“The COP process has failed,” declared Gathercole Lam. “After nearly 30 years, negotiations between nations have been unable and unwilling to deliver an adequate plan to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees.”
Gathercole Lam dramatically claimed that “the future of life on Earth hangs in the balance.”
“Change is not going to come from inside conference rooms, but from ordinary people like you and me,” Gathercole Lam stressed.
“That’s why in 2022, Extinction Rebellion is planning to create the largest act of civil resistance in UK history,” the spokesperson explained.
“History has shown us that time and time again one method has consistently been able to deliver meaningful societal change,” Gathercole Lam told viewers. “When millions of people come together to demand change, governments have no choice but to act.”
“Let’s do what works: prolonged, disruptive, non-violent civil resistance.”
Extinction Rebellion hopes to convince 3.5 percent of the U.K. population — approximately 2.3 million people — to protest with them beginning in April.
Extinction Rebellion began in 2018 when a crowd of protesters blocked the road in front of Westminster. The group next engaged in a coordinated effort to block the five main bridges over the River Thames, causing a massive traffic back-up. Causing traffic jams and getting arrested is one of the group’s main modi operandi.
The climate-hysteric group has claimed that the Chinese coronavirus pandemic slowed their efforts to combat climate change. The group’s actions reached a zenith in October of 2019 with a two-week series of demonstrations in 60 cities across the world known as “International Rebellion.”
Some of the group’s greatest hits include staging a “semi-naked” protest in April 2019 in the House of Commons, during a Brexit debate. Several activists stripped almost all of their clothing off, painted their bodies with climate-change slogans, and stood with their buttocks facing the chamber. Twelve activists were arrested as a result of the action.
“By undressing in parliament, we are putting ourselves in an incredibly vulnerable position, highlighting the vulnerability that all of us share in the face of environmental and societal breakdown,” said Mark Ovland, one of the impromptu nudists.
Ovland claimed that climate change was being “flagrantly and recklessly ignored by our government and media.”
Then in October of 2019, the group acquired a fire engine and meant to spray 1,800 liters of fake blood on the Treasury Building in Central London. But the group lost control of the hose and ended up spraying most of the “blood” on the pavement outside the building. The group was trying to send a message to the treasury to “stop funding climate death,” according to a banner the group unfurled during the incident.
So, they’re all completely reasonable folks.
Gathercole Lam accused the Boris Johnson administration, which is desperately trying to foist its “net-zero emissions” plan on the nation, of being “beholden to short-term thinking” and “corrupted by fossil fuel interests.”
The irony of choosing April Fool’s Day to begin their climate protests anew is likely lost on this group who excel at annoying people. But with the climate “emergency” so clear in their minds, why wait until April to begin their efforts to harass their fellow citizens? Why won’t they stage a widespread protest on Christmas or New Year’s Day, since global warming is so all-important to them?
Perhaps they’re just waiting until springtime since they know it will be far too cold to protest about global warming in the winter.
