British police issue safety warning over Greta Thunberg rally

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British police issue safety warning over Greta Thunberg rally

 

FILE PHOTO: Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg speaks during the Fridays for Future protest in Hamburg, Germany February 21, 2020. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Police have issued a safety warning over a climate protest rally in the southwestern city of Bristol on Friday which will be addressed by teenage activist Greta Thunberg.

 

The event has been organised by the Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate group, part of a global movement of school students who stage protests in school time over what they say is the lack of government action on climate change.

 

Organisers say they expect between 15,000 and 60,000 protesters from across the country to attend.

 

One coach company said it was providing transport from 13 places around Britain, including Oxford, Birmingham, Brighton and Cardiff.

 

Police and the local council in Bristol issued a joint statement, expressing safety concerns.

 

"We have seen a number of protests over the last year however this one will be significantly larger," it said. "Please do not underestimate the scale of this protest."

 

Police will close roads around the area where Thunberg, 17, is expected to speak before she joins a march through the city.

 

Thunberg has been in Britain since the weekend. On Tuesday she visited the University of Oxford, where she met Malala Yousafzai, the 22-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner and campaigner for girls' education, who is studying there.

 

The pair shared photos of themselves with their arms around each other. Thunberg called Yousafzai her role model, while Yousafzai said on Twitter: "She's the only friend I'd skip school for."

 

Thunberg starting missing lessons two years ago to protest outside the Swedish parliament building. She has since sparked a global movement calling for sustainability and awareness of climate change.

 

(Reporting by Elizabeth Howcroft; editing by Stephen Addison)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-02-28

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[steve187]

would they be better walking to the rally to save the planet instead of burning diesel fuels in the coaches

[UbonThani]

So 50,000 people who claim co2 is bad are going to travel to produce more co2. It's like vegans eating beef on a protest.

[evadgib]

Who is funding this exploited child?

[RuamRudy]

1 hour ago, UbonThani said:

So 50,000 people who claim co2 is bad are going to travel to produce more co2. It's like vegans eating beef on a protest.

It is not like that at all. Human endeaour inevitably causes emissions - nobody is denying that. What is being pointed out, however, is that the balance is way of kilter, and that humans are generating far more harmful byproducts than the planet can deal with. That bears no resemblance whatsoever to your ludicrous analogy. 

[RuamRudy]

The obsessive outrage that so many middle aged and elderly men have towards a teenage girl who has the temerity to stand up and try to improve things for her generation borders on the disturbing.

 

So often we hear complaints about the youth of today being apathetic and narcissistic, however here we have yet another example of a young person who tries to make a difference, and they get howls of relentless abuse and all manner of criticisms from the very same people who frequently complain about the youth of today. 

 

Of course, she has the unfortunate mix of being both a confident, assertive female and someone who believes in man-made climate change - a heady combination which is like catnip to a certain section of the (mostly) male population. 

[Colabamumbai]

5 hours ago, evadgib said:

Who is funding this exploited child?

A sick planet. 

[evadgib]

3 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

The obsessive outrage that so many middle aged and elderly men have towards a teenage girl who has the temerity to stand up and try to improve things for her generation borders on the disturbing.

 

So often we hear complaints about the youth of today being apathetic and narcissistic, however here we have yet another example of a young person who tries to make a difference, and they get howls of relentless abuse and all manner of criticisms from the very same people who frequently complain about the youth of today. 

 

Of course, she has the unfortunate mix of being both a confident, assertive female and someone who believes in man-made climate change - a heady combination which is like catnip to a certain section of the (mostly) male population. 

How about this one doing the exact opposite...?

 

Edited February 28, 2020 by evadgib

[Syduan]

5 hours ago, evadgib said:

Who is funding this exploited child?

The Rothschild's, all part of their agenda. 

[Basil B]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

One coach company said it was providing transport from 13 places around Britain, including Oxford, Birmingham, Brighton and Cardiff.

Make them walk...

[RuamRudy]

1 hour ago, evadgib said:

How about this one doing the exact opposite...?

 

What about her? It's good that young people get the opportunity to speak out and be heard. While I probably agree with very few of her views, I have no desire to hound her or vilify her on social media. 

[Krataiboy]

2 hours ago, Syduan said:

The Rothschild's, all part of their agenda. 

It goes way deeper than that.

 

http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/17/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/

Edited February 28, 2020 by Krataiboy

[Krataiboy]

Is there a corona virus which causes mass hysteria and temporary insanity?

[FarFlungFalang]

22 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

Is there a corona virus which causes mass hysteria and temporary insanity?

Not in this country (Thailand) there's not.Most are calmly ignoring the whole thing which is quite refreshing.

[Chomper Higgot]

2 hours ago, evadgib said:

How about this one doing the exact opposite...?

 

Is this child also exploited Evadgib and if so why are you ripping content defecting her in order to post on here?!

[FarFlungFalang]

13 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

Why? Do you think that you've got it?

I had to ask myself that question over the last 2 days with my runny nose which I seem to get about 10 times a year here (bad sinuses and hay fever little kids in school ).It's gone now and I'm still alive and I had no other symptoms.

Edited February 28, 2020 by FarFlungFalang

[from the home of CC]

better hope they don't use the latest Canadian method of shutting down the transport of all goods, folks there may not be so tolerant of the movement then..

[transam]

Has she been to China and India yet.....................?

 

Crime is on the rise in Sweden, is she involved with tackling that via her youngsters...?

[Chomper Higgot]

13 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Not in this country (Thailand) there's not.Most are calmly ignoring the whole thing which is quite refreshing.

Yeh right.

 

 

[evadgib]

29 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Is this child also exploited Evadgib and if so why are you ripping content defecting her in order to post on here?!

As she's N-N-Nineteen I didn't think to look.

 

St Greta on the other hand remains a child until Christmas, along with her ongoing medical concerns & since you've mentioned 'ripping content' I have just sat through this related interview with another tree hugger and had a good chuckle.

 

 

 

HTH

Edited February 28, 2020 by evadgib

[bert bloggs]

The police have warned that going to her rally and listening to the stupid child could send you mad ,

[EVENKEEL]

Lovely.....

[UbonThani]

6 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

It is not like that at all. Human endeaour inevitably causes emissions - nobody is denying that. What is being pointed out, however, is that the balance is way of kilter, and that humans are generating far more harmful byproducts than the planet can deal with. That bears no resemblance whatsoever to your ludicrous analogy. 

What rubbish. The planet is doing fine. 50,000 delusional lefty hypocrites wont change anything.

[RickBradford]

8 hours ago, evadgib said:

Who is funding this exploited child?

Greta's adult handlers are associated with a number of NGOs (World Resources Institute, European Climate Foundation, New Climate Economy, the US Climate Action Network, Third Generation Environmentalism, ONE Foundation) which are funded variously by entities including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission, Google, Coca-Cola, Bill Gates, the Rockefeller Foundation and many more.

 

Rest assured, there is no chance of Greta having to put a patch over one eye and rattle a tin cup in the street.

 

"Environmentalism" is where the big bucks are these days.

[sirineou]

3 minutes ago, UbonThani said:

6 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

It is not like that at all. Human endeaour inevitably causes emissions - nobody is denying that. What is being pointed out, however, is that the balance is way of kilter, and that humans are generating far more harmful byproducts than the planet can deal with. That bears no resemblance whatsoever to your ludicrous analogy. 

What rubbish. The planet is doing fine. 50,000 delusional lefty hypocrites wont change anything.

trust me!! LOL

[RuamRudy]

8 minutes ago, UbonThani said:

What rubbish. The planet is doing fine. 50,000 delusional lefty hypocrites wont change anything.

What to do - trust the overwhelming majority of subject matter experts, or agree with a group of middle aged and elderly men who spend their days denying reality, typing out insults on the internet aimed at a teenage girl, and inventing conspiracy theories based upon the Rothschilds? I must admit, it's a tough one. 

[UbonThani]

2 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

What to do - trust the overwhelming majority of subject matter experts, or agree with a group of middle aged and elderly men who spend their days denying reality, typing out insults on the internet aimed at a teenage girl, and inventing conspiracy theories based upon the Rothschilds? I must admit, it's a tough one. 

Which experts?

 

The discredited IPCC

 

It's a con champ. Read the science.

 

Sad you are so ignorant.

[UbonThani]

 

The new UN IPCC report is facing even more credibility question after a climate expert found a glaring error in the use of climate data.

Dr. Ross McKitrick wrote on October 11: The “new [UN] IPCC SR15 report relies on Marcott 2013 to contrast recent warming with past 7,000 years. Marcott et al. said their study should not be used for that purpose after critics hammered their poor 20C data quality.”

McKitrick was referring to a 2013 study by Prof. Shaun Marcott of Oregon University, which claimed that current temperatures were the hottest in 4000 years. But the study quickly came under intense scrutiny as many scientists ridiculed the study’s claims and calls for retractions were issued. McKitrick’s 2013 analysis of the study that the current UN report relies upon, was scathing. Marcott’s “11,000-year study’s 20th-century claim is groundless,” McKitrick wrote in 2013. 

Marcott’s 2013 study was also accused of “skirting awfully close to crossing the line into research misconduct” and a “gross misrepresentation of the findings.”

 

Snake oil IPCC

[transam]

Just now, RuamRudy said:

What to do - trust the overwhelming majority of subject matter experts, or agree with a group of middle aged and elderly men who spend their days denying reality, typing out insults on the internet aimed at a teenage girl, and inventing conspiracy theories based upon the Rothschilds? I must admit, it's a tough one. 

I suspect you are like me one of the older guys here, so if you look back at your past life, did you think about climate change when lighting a bonfire, or use tins of spray containing CFC's, light household coal fires, drive cars with ridiculous MPG compared to today's rides, etc, etc.  ?

[jingjai9]

The biggest danger Greta faces is that she does not become consumed by her celebrity. It is easy for someone this age, 17, to be swayed by opportunists and other "mentors". Greta believes we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.