Around 100 companies are responsible for climate change and we must act to stop them now in our last chance to save the planet, a climate change activist has warned.
"We need to have more of a focus on companies and XR has been moving in that direction," says Rupert Read, an XR spokesperson, speaking to"I've been urging it to move in that direction for a while, so that means things like doing significant non-violent direct-action protests against those companies."
However, Read rejected rumors that the group had plans to occupy Parliament, saying that the emphasis was on targeted, non-violent direct action aimed at those most responsible for the climate crisis. He says:"The COVID-19 emergency is part of the broader ecological emergency, It's a product of habitat destruction, it's a product of animal cruelty and in terms of its spread it's a product of rampant and out of control air travel."But isn't China, so often called the world's factory, also responsible for global emissions, why the focus on the West?
"The government goes on and on about how we've reduced our carbon emissions since 1990, but they don't include the emissions that we have outsourced or exported to China, we've got them doing our dirty work for us. When you include those emissions, our emissions in the U.K. have barely decreased at all since 1990."
For Prof. Harrison, the pandemic has also shone a light on why we need to tackle climate change, with COVID-19 fatalities higher in areas with higher levels of air pollution. Not everyone agrees with the actions XR has undertaken, even if they may agree with the overall aims of reducing climate change.that he felt XR had hurt their own cause through their demonstration tactics, which last week included blockading two UK printworks, which delayed the distribution of major national newspapers.
In the entire world, only 100 companies, no need to worry then. How about volcanoes?
I still haven’t seen any proof at all by grant funded scientists, that mankind is the cause of climate change. Before Democrats used to call it global warming, until caught putting heat sensors on concrete surfaces & there boats getting stuck in thick Arctic ice.
It’s convenient that they were able to round it off at such an easy-to-remember big sounding number.
Wow. Narrowed it down to 100. 🙄