An opinion piece argues that Extinction Rebellion, a climate action group, is employing extremist tactics and language, hindering constructive solutions. The author criticizes their demands, media strategy, and portrayal of governments.
, where he postulated the organization could be a front group for fossil industries or at least manipulated by them. This letter to the editor comes to us from David Woodward, and we think it’s absolutely excellent.
Looking at their 3 demands — and that language is illustrative, “demands;” not “core principles,” not “foundations,” not “aims” — this is the language of extremism. This is the language of Marxism, of autocracy, of hostage takers. “We know best,” any dissent is heresy.“Governments worldwide are failing to act, consistently refusing to acknowledge the serious and imminent threat posed by this twin crisis.” There’s a lot of cognitive dissonance going on here.
Hello, 2024? Biden? 19 Feb 2021, first day in office, back in the Paris agreement. They are 4 years out of date on this issue — ancient history.
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