After protests, Britain's parliament declares climate change 'emergency'

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After protests, Britain's parliament declares climate change 'emergency'

 

Climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion protest at the Parliament Square in London, Britain May 1, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's parliament declared a symbolic climate change "emergency" on Wednesday, backing a call by opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for "rapid and dramatic action" to protect the environment for generations to come.

 

The measure was passed as an opposition motion, using a procedure typically ignored by the ruling party, and has no direct consequences for policy.

But it is a nod to an increasing vocal activist movement particularly among young people in Europe, who have staged school strikes and civil disobedience campaigns to demand action.

 

Eleven days of protests by the Extinction Rebellion activist group caused major disruptions in central London in recent weeks, and Swedish schoolgirl campaigner Greta Thunberg addressed lawmakers on a high profile visit.

 

Corbyn told lawmakers they should listen to those "who have the most to lose" from climate change, saying the younger generation is "ahead of the politicians on this, the most important issue of our time".

 

"We have no time to waste. We are living in a climate crisis that will spiral dangerously out of control unless we take rapid and dramatic action now," Corbyn told parliament.

 

"Today, we have the opportunity to say, 'We hear you' ... By becoming the first parliament in the world to declare a climate emergency, we could, and I hope we do, set off a wave of action from parliaments and governments all around the world."

 

Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who met activists this week, disappointed the campaigners by avoiding the word "emergency" and referring instead to the situation as "grave".

 

Extinction Rebellion welcomed Wednesday's motion in a tweet: "This has seen (lawmakers) start to #TellTheTruth about the climate & ecological crisis. They must now halt biodiversity loss, go net #ZeroCarbon2025 & create a #CitizensAssembly."

 

Separately, Thunberg tweeted: "Historic and very hopeful news. Now other nations must follow. And words must turn into immediate action."

 

Rebecca Newsom, head of Politics for Greenpeace UK, said in a statement that tackling climate change had long been delayed.

 

"The best time to declare a climate emergency was 30 years ago; the second best time is now."

 

(Reporting by Elizabeth Piper; Editing by Elisabeth O'Leary, Peter Graff and Sonya Hepinstall)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-05-02

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[phantomfiddler]

What they really should do is march for less rain ???? Don,t these people have a job to go to ?

[David in the north]

1 hour ago, phantomfiddler said:

What they really should do is march for less rain ???? Don,t these people have a job to go to ?

It appears not.
Shut the UK down in the interest of this "emergency" & watch China & India continue to open a new coal fired power station every week......................

[foxboy]

It’s amazing that all these millennial kids have become experts on climate change yet haven’t learnt how to tidy their own bedrooms! Amazing ????

[AgMech Cowboy]

35 minutes ago, foxboy said:

It’s amazing that all these millennial kids have become experts on climate change yet haven’t learnt how to tidy their own bedrooms! Amazing ????

Cannot tell you who the Allies were WW2. Cannot tell you where Vietnam is. Think Ben Franklin was President. Etc. The list goes on. 
 

They cannot tell you about the floods & typhoons/hurricanes in the 20's  either. They just know it's hot.

[IssanMichael]

How about asking these activists to get us out of the EU now

[thaibeachlovers]

The problem children have is that they know nothing, but don't know that they know nothing.

Knowledge and the wisdom to use that knowledge come with age and experience.

If I asked one of them what they wanted to actually do about it., I doubt they'd have a clue.

I notice that Corbyn hasn't actually suggested a plan of action either.

If they demanded the governments of the world sanction every country destroying their forests, like Brazil and Indonesia, and ban all imports containing anything from said forests I'd have some respect for them, but they probably don't even know about the destruction of the lungs of the world.

[Krataiboy]

Thank goodness the vote was only symbolic. The last thing the UK needs is a US-style "green new deal" foisted on us by a bunch of UK environmental imperialists and a Swedish victim of child abuse.

 

There are endless, far more pressing issues the Government needs to deal with, relegated to the back burner by Parliament's prolonged bid to overturn the EU referendum result.

Edited May 2, 2019 by Krataiboy

[nauseus]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The problem children have is that they know nothing, but don't know that they know nothing.

Knowledge and the wisdom to use that knowledge come with age and experience.

If I asked one of them what they wanted to actually do about it., I doubt they'd have a clue.

I notice that Corbyn hasn't actually suggested a plan of action either.

If they demanded the governments of the world sanction every country destroying their forests, like Brazil and Indonesia, and ban all imports containing anything from said forests I'd have some respect for them, but they probably don't even know about the destruction of the lungs of the world.

That's all fine except that we should all remember that England used to be largely covered by deciduous and other forests. Goose/gander stuff and all that. Although I agree that countries like Brazil should now preserve what's left of their rainforests, the English don't really have the moral right to tell them to do that. 

[thaibeachlovers]

3 minutes ago, nauseus said:

That's all fine except that we should all remember that England used to be largely covered by deciduous and other forests. Goose/gander stuff and all that. Although I agree that countries like Brazil should now preserve what's left of their rainforests, the English don't really have the moral right to tell them to do that. 

Except that it took centuries for England to have all those trees felled with axes, and lots of other trees have grown to replace them. England is hardly devoid of trees.

In Brazil, Africa and Indonesia the chain saw is removing trees by the million in a very short space of time and being replaced by grass or palm oil trees.

 

[nauseus]

2 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Except that it took centuries for England to have all those trees felled with axes, and lots of other trees have grown to replace them. England is hardly devoid of trees.

In Brazil, Africa and Indonesia the chain saw is removing trees by the million in a very short space of time and being replaced by grass or palm oil trees.

 

I'm sure that if STIHL saws were available at the time of the Norman conquest they would have been used. Although there has been some recovery, England has lost about half of the forested land that there was one thousand years ago, so they have not all been replaced.

 

My point is that as we have cleared and used forests for our own convenience and existence is the past, we should not now be dictating to others about not doing the same thing. I hope that the large forested nations can come to that conclusion on their own. 

[sawadee1947]

Hurrah 

2 hours ago, IssanMichael said:

How about asking these activists to get us out of the EU now

Good idea, then you can destroy UK more properly

[sawadee1947]

4 hours ago, foxboy said:

It’s amazing that all these millennial kids have become experts on climate change yet haven’t learnt how to tidy their own bedrooms! Amazing ????

Maybe that was the time when you've been a Kid. And as you gave proof there is not much you learnt in the meantime concerning climate change. 

[sawadee1947]

5 hours ago, phantomfiddler said:

What they really should do is march for less rain ???? Don,t these people have a job to go to ?

If the destruction is ongoing there are no jobs left at all. Only the dumbest will not recognise this. 

 

[hugocnx]

If people would just not follow like stupid sheep. Rather listen to real scientists who know that the measuring methods are rigged in favor of the climate change hysteria. Haha, we all dy in 10 to 12 years; Green Deal. Ridiculous.

Read some presentations of P J Michaels to name one and read some about the 'Kabal' or NWO or Jesuits or Globalists. Take your pick, but it's all the same actually. 

[Enoon]

5 hours ago, foxboy said:

It’s amazing that all these millennial kids have become experts on climate change yet haven’t learnt how to tidy their own bedrooms! Amazing ????

 

"Millennials"?

 

Speakers Corner

 

Waterloo Bridge

 

Canary Wharf

 

 

Who are the protesters on the Extinction Rebellion frontline?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 2, 2019 by Enoon

[RickBradford]

I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that the UK government is now taking instructions from a 16-year-old girl rather than from the thousands of scientists and economists who have repeatedly stated that impacts of climate change may amount to a modest percentage of GDP towards the end of this century.

 

Unless Greta Thunberg is absorbing climate wisdom direct via radio beam from Venus (a possibility), I think it highly unlikely that there is any hard science behind the apocalyptic puppet-babble she specialises in, and which seems to have transfixed British politicians. Having made such fools of themselves over Brexit, it seemed unlikely they could sink any lower, but, yup, they managed it.

 

There's a thought - perhaps they should invite the sainted Greta back and ask her advice how to get out of the Brexit mess. I'm sure she'll have some illuminating advice to give, maybe "Be nice and share."

[Reigntax]

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The problem children have is that they know nothing, but don't know that they know nothing.

Knowledge and the wisdom to use that knowledge come with age and experience.

If I asked one of them what they wanted to actually do about it., I doubt they'd have a clue.

I notice that Corbyn hasn't actually suggested a plan of action either.

If they demanded the governments of the world sanction every country destroying their forests, like Brazil and Indonesia, and ban all imports containing anything from said forests I'd have some respect for them, but they probably don't even know about the destruction of the lungs of the world.

Proper Science is no longer taught in schools. Just left wing scare tactics implanted in school children's brains without the knowledge to either question or understand what they are talking about.

Education is no longer a place to develope critical thinking and brain programming.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the like caused the end of intelligence.

Edited May 2, 2019 by Reigntax

[TopDeadSenter]

When you consider it used to be called global warming, which was then thoroughly debunked so they changed it to be the vague "climate change" you know it's just a hoax. Al Gore's ice caps that would melt in 5-7 years are still there just the same 10 years later. Polar bears that would go extinct are actually increasing in numbers!

 https://www.thegwpf.org/as-polar-bear-numbers-increase-gwpf-calls-for-re-assessment-of-endangered-species-status/

Even if we all went back to a stone age existence in the western world to virtue signal, it is unlikely the Chinese and Indians would do the same. But I can see some wisdom is banning under 21s from using any personal technology such as phones and the internet. They should be outside running in meadows and catching butterflys. Living in other words. Like we used to do when we were kids. But try and take away their iphone or turn off the tv and they have a tantrum. 

[sawadee1947]

1 hour ago, hugocnx said:

If people would just not follow like stupid sheep. Rather listen to real scientists who know that the measuring methods are rigged in favor of the climate change hysteria. Haha, we all dy in 10 to 12 years; Green Deal. Ridiculous.

Read some presentations of P J Michaels to name one and read some about the 'Kabal' or NWO or Jesuits or Globalists. Take your pick, but it's all the same actually. 

You did not understand anything. 

And as you gave proof there is not much you learnt in the meantime concerning climate change. 

Good that you don't belong to the dumb people who ignore climate change. 

But probably you belong to the dumbest part on this planet. 

 

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[teacherofwoe]

Agenda 21 & Agenda 2030

[teacherofwoe]

And here is another reason for the CC Hoax:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48113303

[Rimmer]

An off topic troll post removed

[Dek Somboon]

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The problem children have is that they know nothing, but don't know that they know nothing.

Knowledge and the wisdom to use that knowledge come with age and experience.

If I asked one of them what they wanted to actually do about it., I doubt they'd have a clue.

I notice that Corbyn hasn't actually suggested a plan of action either.

If they demanded the governments of the world sanction every country destroying their forests, like Brazil and Indonesia, and ban all imports containing anything from said forests I'd have some respect for them, but they probably don't even know about the destruction of the lungs of the world.

You don’t either, as the oceans are the lungs of the world - providing 70% of our oxygen. Not the children’s problem if education all over the world sucks, teaches them a load of useless nonsense and even wrong things...

Edited May 2, 2019 by Dek Somboon

[Dek Somboon]

2 hours ago, hugocnx said:

If people would just not follow like stupid sheep. Rather listen to real scientists who know that the measuring methods are rigged in favor of the climate change hysteria. Haha, we all dy in 10 to 12 years; Green Deal. Ridiculous.

Read some presentations of P J Michaels to name one and read some about the 'Kabal' or NWO or Jesuits or Globalists. Take your pick, but it's all the same actually. 

Right. And cigarettes are healthy for you, as we know from the Doctors’ Choice campaign that ran in the USA until the 1950s: https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/throwback-thursday-when-doctors-prescribed-healthy-cigarette-brands-165404/

 

In reality our species isn’t as smart as we always like to believe, and we deserve to go extinct.????????

[Dek Somboon]

43 minutes ago, TopDeadSenter said:

When you consider it used to be called global warming, which was then thoroughly debunked so they changed it to be the vague "climate change" you know it's just a hoax. Al Gore's ice caps that would melt in 5-7 years are still there just the same 10 years later. Polar bears that would go extinct are actually increasing in numbers!

 https://www.thegwpf.org/as-polar-bear-numbers-increase-gwpf-calls-for-re-assessment-of-endangered-species-status/

Even if we all went back to a stone age existence in the western world to virtue signal, it is unlikely the Chinese and Indians would do the same. But I can see some wisdom is banning under 21s from using any personal technology such as phones and the internet. They should be outside running in meadows and catching butterflys. Living in other words. Like we used to do when we were kids. But try and take away their iphone or turn off the tv and they have a tantrum. 

Climate change was chosen in favor of global warming for people like you, who didn’t understand how there could still be (very) cold winters when - on AVERAGE (hence the adverb GLOBAL) - Planet Earth is still heating at a rate of 1 Hiroshima atomic bomb per second...

[Dek Somboon]

4 hours ago, Krataiboy said:

Thank goodness the vote was only symbolic. The last thing the UK needs is a US-style "green new deal" foisted on us by a bunch of UK environmental imperialists and a Swedish victim of child abuse.

 

There are endless, far more pressing issues the Government needs to deal with, relegated to the back burner by Parliament's prolonged bid to overturn the EU referendum result.

Climate change is humanity’s biggest and most pressing challenge. Even Brexit is a piece of cake compared to the destruction we are already and will increasingly face this century. Which is why ‘economy’ and ‘ecology’ share the very same Ancient Greek root oikos, or ‘management of our household’. Without a properly functioning ecology, there can be no decent economy. (Think arid dusty Issaan, where many women who normally would earn a living with 3 rice crops a year now have to screw ugly old western sex tourists in Pattaya, Bangkok and Phuket for a living...)

[dunroaming]

Long overdue.  The authorities have been in denial for decades.  I just hope it is not too little too late.

[Nyezhov]

I don't understand how Parliament had the time to even consider in this, have they finished with brexit then?

[bristolboy]

43 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

I don't understand how Parliament had the time to even consider in this, have they finished with brexit then?

For some people, multitasking apparently is a kind of magic! Therefore impossible.

Edited May 2, 2019 by bristolboy