Just when you thought climate activists couldn’t get more annoying

They have been ‘disarming’ cars in Glasgow by letting one or more tyres of SUV’s down.

 

That’s shocking that,they deserve the bull hammer punch on the nose

 

So they can run the engine plug in a compressor and pump them back up? Brilliant work.

 

I agree that swift action is needed to prevent climate change, but a lot of activists don’t half go about doing it the wrong way. Stopping mums from taking their kids to nursery by letting tyres down, and stopping family members getting to hospital to see ill loved ones by blocking roads does nothing but alienate people and harm their own goals. It’s madness. And I’m as left wing as they come.

 

They wouldn't dare do it in China one of the worst on climate change.

 

Saw a FB post yesterday claiming it was a Nurse’s car done too, with a note attached saying about if a country etc

 

I really agree with their cause but as said they go about it in the wrong way and innocent folk suffer !
I don’t get all these insulate Britain crackpots blockading and gluing themselves to road or rather I don’t get the drivers being patient! I’m afraid Juddy G would leave their face# like Terminator with no skin I would rag em straight out of the way.

 

COP 26 are no better when preaching to the public to change our ways at the same time they give the equivalent of a six figure total of carbon dioxide....

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/climate/cop26-carbon-footprint.html

 

They certainly wouldn't - everybody has a bicycle

 

Bloody Climate Change Activists, coming over here, saving the planet where we all live.

 

Well i don`t know about the rest of China but there`s at least nine million in Bejing.

 

The planet will be fine.......

 

I think we could warm our homes by burning climate change activists. Oh and publicans that charge more than 56p a pint like it used to be in the ram up kek

 

Ridiculous behaviour. Why don’t they just write a strongly worded letter to their local MP or Senior Government Officials. That’s the time honoured way to ‘get things done.’

 

It's a frustrating exercise trying to get data on pollutants but I eventually saw a UK government figure that claims 12% of NOX pollution comes from cars. But that is only one pollutant. So what's the real figure? 5% of total pollutants come for cars? 8%? There's another figure that says 27% of pollutants are from transport. But that includes non-road transport and commercial transport. So again, what do cars represent? I did see a figure that said cars account for 55% of transport emissions. So 0.55*0.27= 15%? It's as if the figures are purposefully ambiguous and incomparable so nobody knows where to target. Or perhaps they could admit that nobody really knows and it's all guesswork. This of course all leads to the well meaning but bizarre stories we get reported above.

Folk getting their SUV tyres let down in the UK, meanwhile in the US the huge F150 truck is the biggest selling "car" year on year and here in Aus it is the Hilux (with five of the top ten vehicles sold being a dual cab ute). A modern SUV is likely to be quite fuel efficient in the scheme of things. But then again, here cars only account for 4% of total emissions thanks to the governments love affair with coal powered electricity. So understandably people think what's the point.

Then there is the ignorant assumption that the parked SUV is the problem. For all they know the owner only uses it once or twice a week when they need to ferry the kids somewhere and the rest of the time they walk and cycle. Meanwhile, the EV parked next to it is owned by someone who wouldn't dream of walking or cycling, loves going for drives, takes unnecessary trips where a phone call would have done and makes HGVs unnecessarily brake through careless driving. We can't make assumptions about anybody.

 

I’m sure that if you got up Monday morning to go to work and someone had let your tyre down, meaning you’d be late, you wouldn’t complain at all and would in fact immediately let your other 3 tyres down in solidarity. Unless they are the tyres of world leaders who are refusing to tackle climate change then what’s the point? No one is going to sell their car and start using public transport because someone let one of their tyres down randomly. It achieves nothing.

 

Exactly.

 

The planet will be fine, absolutely, we just won't be able to live on it.

 

Whether to rant about activists letting someone's tyres down or World leaders turning our Earth into Venus. It's a difficult decision to make

 

Because you would just shrug it off if you were say on your way to pick your child up, or maybe a hospital appointment and some numb nuts had let your tyres down?
Such actions do absolutely sweet fa to save the planet but potentially wreck somebody’s life.