Activists from the Extinction Rebellion (XR) environmental group have threatened inevitable “mass death” by climate change as they begin their fourth day of a week-long hunger strike.
On Monday, hunger strikers occupied the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi calling for more decisive action on the part of the Democrats to tackle the “climate crisis.”
Activists complained that Pelosi had refused to participate in a filmed interview with movement members.
Instead, Ms. Pelosi issued a statement saying she was “inspired” by young climate activists and insisting that the Democrats were “working relentlessly to safeguard our environment and ensure a healthy, sustainable world for our children.”
The strikes, which began Monday, have been organized in 27 countries, led by 20-year-old Giovanni Tamacas of the University of San Diego.
“We are hunger striking because we have no choice,” Tamacas said in a statement, arguing that governments and corporations “have criminally and catastrophically failed to tackle the climate and ecological emergency.”
Last month, a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion (XR) confessed that the group makes unsubstantiated predictions of mass deaths because “alarmist language works.”
Pressed by Andrew Neil of the BBC, XR spokesperson Zion Lights acknowledged there is no scientific basis for predictions of mass deaths from climate change, but contended that such incendiary language is necessary to motivate people.
“I’ve seen some of your activists claim on TV that billions of people are going to die in quite short order. One of your founders, Roger Hallam, said in April, ‘Our children are going to die in the next ten or twenty years.’ What’s the scientific basis for these claims?” Neil asked.
“So, these claims have been disputed, admittedly,” Ms. Lights replied. “There are some scientists agreeing and some scientists saying they’re simply not true but the overall issue is that these deaths are going to happen. We don’t know exact numbers and actually it’s a little bit concerning to focus on just how many deaths. There will be deaths and suffering and any amount is enough as far as we are concerned.”
But billions of people dying, “I don’t know where the scientific validity comes for that. How would they die?” Neil pressed.
“Mass migration around the world already taking place due to prolonged drought in countries, particularly in South Asia, wildfires in Indonesia, the Amazon rain forest, Siberia, you know, the arctic…” Lights said.
“You talk weather-related disasters. There seem to be a lot of them around at the moment and people die from them,” Neil said.
“But in the latest figures I’ve seen, 100 years ago weather-related disasters killed half a million people a year. Today’s it’s 20,000 a year. It’s still 20,000 too many but it’s a reduction of 95 percent. It does not lead to the death of billions,” he said.
“You’re scaring people with this rhetoric, aren’t you?” he pressed.
“I think there’s a danger of scaring people simply because we’re not taking it seriously enough and people are feeling really desperate that we’re heard on this and unfortunately, alarmist language works,” Lights said.
“We’re using language that we feel is appropriate to the situation,” she added.
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What an absolute load is tripe these #ClimateCrackpots do spout. It’s rubbish, but the frightening thing is, schoolkids are being told this in school, which is a disgusting disgrace!
#ClimateScam
If the government’s actually stopped all use of fossil fuels we would then see the mass deaths these idiots claim will happen if we don’t. We would be back to living as in Medieval times.
These green lunatics are so unbelievable dumb…
And why don’t they set an example, try living without all products created with and by oil.. see how that works out for them.
Well to be fair, looks like some of them stopped using personal hygiene products a LONG time ago…
The Just Stinks Rebellion what a bunch of idiots they are talk about Stupid they have Stupid written all over their faces just where in the world did this party of noose nuts come from?
If these radicals want their hunger strike to be taken seriously, they should do it for a respectable amount of time. Four months sounds right to me.
They admit to making wild unsupported statements. This is very typical of liberals. Anything that helps their cause is justified.
They complain that Nancy Pelosi won’t do an interview with them. Yet radicals from this movement refuse to do an interview that includes a knowledgeable climate realist.
A one week hunger strike? That’s called a fast, and quite a few have done it for health and/or spiritual reasons. But hey, the alarmists like to give their own definitions to normal words.
I’d replace “liberals” with “zealots”. True liberals aren’t radical. But long understood terms are often misused these days.
I wonder who paid their bills? I don’t think they are working for a living.