#climatecrisis

Up until five minutes ago, I was a subscriber to The Guardian.

Then I read this:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/21/yes-five-years-in-jail-is-too-harsh-but-the-just-stop-oil-five-shouldnt-have-done-it

Here's what I wrote:

We have already passed the point of no return with the climate. At this point it seems inescapable that we will devastate our biosphere, drive a million species to extinction, and wipe out great chunks of humanity.

And this - this! - is what you choose to publish.

It is intolerable. It is unconscionable. It is obscene.

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Yes, five years in jail is too harsh, but the Just Stop Oil Five shouldn’t have done it

The urgent needs of the road users they held up were ignored during this climate crusade

The Guardian

I wish that you could see, just for one minute, the devastated state the world will be in a century or even fifty years from now.

I immediately unsubscribed from the Guardian, I'm urging everyone I know to do the same, and I will not read your newspaper again.

The only way to reverse my decision would be to fire this writer immediately.

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@TomSwirly don’t agree. They hacked off so many people it set back the cause against Climate change. Denial is still with us.

@PrimroseHill

People said much like what you said about the civil rights movement and the Suffragettes.

Protests that don't bother anyone are exactly what we have been doing for the last sixty years. This strategy has completely and utterly failed; now catastrophe seems inevitable.

"Insanity Is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results".

@TomSwirly On that same note, the violence endured by protesters in Belarus held in custody after protests was too harsh, but they shouldn't have blocked the roads in the first place.
@TomSwirly protests are bad unless they don't bother anybody, the only good protest is a bunch of people in a room where no one else can see them, right? /sarcasm