|
'Like mosquitoes': Extinction Rebellion plans surprises for City of London
 LONDON (Reuters) - Activist group Extinction Rebellion plans to send mosquito-like swarms of protesters to disrupt financial, accountancy and media firms in London this year to mobilise broader popular support for transformative action against climate change.The goal is to spark a worldwide conversation over how to shift to a low-carbon society in time to avert the most catastrophic impacts, said Gail Bradbrook, a co-founder of the movement, who holds a PhD in molecular biophysics. "We’ll be like sets of mosquitoes coming into London ‐ the aim is to disrupt the system, not the public," Bradbrook told Reuters ahead of the publication of an Extinction Rebellion strategy document on Wednesday. "In other news, DDT has been unbanned" Extinction Rebellion, in common with a "new economics" movement of economists, academics and scientists, argues that a relentless focus on ever-faster economic growth is pushing the world’s ecosystems to breaking point. "The economic system is acting like a cancer on humanity," Bradbrook said. "The regulatory system, the accountants, the legal firms support the metastasizing of this cancer." Related: Extinction Rebellion: 2019-11-24 Antifa/Extinction Rebellion protester tries to block a street...it doesn't end well for the protester. Extinction Rebellion: 2019-10-24 New Report Reveals Climate Change Protesters Are Being Paid, May Be In Trouble Because Of It Extinction Rebellion: 2019-10-21 UK: Police vs Public: London Commuters Who Stopped Tube Protesters Investigated Posted by: Besoeker 2020-02-14 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=563466 |