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post deleted eh? Why am I not surprised. There is, of course, only one point of view isn’t there?

Ok, explain just what gives you the right to storm into the office of a private company and demand a meeting

post deleted eh? Why am I not surprised.

I’m not surprised either, since you don’t bother reading or adhering to the comments policy.

we should at least celebrate that the third runway has been scrapped. obvs not such good news on the nuclear front, but i’d rather we spent less time arguing how to deal with climate change and get on with actually dealing with it

these comments are loony. it’s incredible to watch the righteous anger of people who refuse to accept the conclusions of such simple science. and then to come out on the side of the express rather than a bunch of women terrified that the LIES they publish might have a bad influence on people’s awareness of climate change. more activism please and hanna, you will certainly see me on weds – thank you.

If you’re going to use direct action, you should be handing out condoms to people who burden the biosphere by having more than two children, be they rich or poor, and telling the media to spread the reality – that economic growth, and growth of the human population are the most detrimental things to the planet. Get them to look at this:

http://steadystate.org/

Anyway, shouldn’t people be at school on a Wednesday?

If you’re going to use direct action, you should be handing out condoms to people who burden the biosphere by having more than two children,

This is what what I find amusing about right-wing ideologues. They’ll make barmy suggestions like this, and then later declare that greens are barmy because someone said having less children would save the environment.

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‘ If you’re going to use direct action, you should be handing out condoms to people who burden the biosphere by having more than two children, be they rich or poor, and telling the media to spread the reality – that economic growth, and growth of the human population are the most detrimental things to the planet. Get them to look at this: ‘

Umm, what use would condoms be? The population of the earth is not rising because more children are being born. The global population is rising because less children are dying and life expectancy is rising. The birth rate is declining in nearly every nation on earth. Global fertility rates are about 40% below the rate of 50 years ago. The so-called ‘ population explosion ‘ is a health explosion. The population of the earth will continue to rise and then stabilise around 2050, and then it will start to decline. If you are uncomfortable with this by all means argue that people should be unhealthier and more children should die.

@ #3 sl 5:12pm when private companies fall way short of public good, then anything goes?

I’m entirely in sympathy with the green movement, and have a lot of admiration for peple like Hanna who use their energies in its service. But I do wonder whether putting pressure on European politicians is a particularly good use of that energy. The UK’s record on carbon may not be perfect – and I’m all for protesting specific decisions, such as the axing of the Sustainable Development Commission and the Green Jobs Fund – but let’s face it, it’s not DECC holding up the UNFCCC; it’s China and the US. Until those two bite down on the necessary measures (not looking likely given the make-up of the Congress), I just have a horrible feeling that it matters only a very tiny damn what anyone else does.

Rather than handing viagra to Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, wouldn’t we be better off trying to work out how best to put global pressure on US congressmen and the Chinese government? And rather than a succession of climate-based protests that – with all due respect – seems to form an indistinguishable background hum that the public generally ignores, wouldn’t we be better off taking some notes from the incredibly focused and (it seems to me) effective ‘Science is Vital’ campaign, and concentrate our collective energies on on or two specific domestic policy issues at any one time?

Sorry to be a curmudgeon.

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” when private companies fall way short of public good, then anything goes?”

Really? What a well thought out response.