{"id":241158,"date":"2023-01-23T14:10:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=241158"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:10:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:10:58","slug":"climate-activism-has-a-cult-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=241158","title":{"rendered":"Climate Activism Has a Cult Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Free Press<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Zion Lights<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a member of Extinction Rebellion, writes Zion Lights, I watched people brainwashed into pulling outrageous stunts in the name of ‘saving the planet.’<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Extinction Rebellion protesting against Black Friday in Warsaw, Poland. (Piotr Lapinski via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maybe you saw Van Gogh\u2019s \u201cSunflowers\u201d smeared with two cans of tomato soup. Or the 20-year-old man who set fire to his arm at a tennis tournament, wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words \u201cEnd UK Private Jets.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or the traffic on London\u2019s M25 highway blocked by protesters for days. One 24-year-old girl, Louise, climbed atop a crane on the highway. \u201cI\u2019m here because I don\u2019t have a future,\u201d she exclaimed between sobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these stories feature young members of a movement that claims to fight climate change by demanding their governments stop using and producing fossil fuels immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their methods seem unorthodox, and you\u2019re probably wondering how defacing artwork or gluing your hand to the floor of a Volkswagen showroom reduces carbon emissions. I don\u2019t blame you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference between me and you is I used to be one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(via\u00a0Twitter<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For my overseas friends…this is how we protest in the UK:

Watch the moment two 'Just Stop Oil' protesters threw tomato soup on Van Gogh\u2019s Sunflowers painting displayed at the National Gallery in London and then glued themselves to the wall. pic.twitter.com\/dN8nuUItK0<\/a><\/p>— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) October 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>