Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Angry “Extinction Rebellion” protestors shut down the BBC headquarters, while demanding the BBC start covering climate change as if it was a major war.
BBC’s London HQ put on lockdown over climate change protest
Extinction Rebellion group calls for environment to be made ‘top editorial issue’
The BBC’s central London headquarters has been put on lockdown due to a protest by climate change campaigners who are demanding it uses its status as national broadcaster to declare a “climate and ecological emergency”.
Extinction Rebellion, a direct action group that has recently shut down key London roads, has demand the BBC makes the environment its “top editorial issue”.
Broadcasting House was locked down early on Friday afternoon, with BBCstaff and guests unable to enter or leave the building while security kept the peaceful but noisy protesters away from the entrance.
Extinction Rebellion activists, who are demanding a meeting with the BBC director general, Tony Hall, said the corporation had a duty to broadcast about climate change with “the level of urgency placed on informing the public about the second world war”.
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Imagine if the protestors had noticed that the BBC is ignoring the green divestment message, and has slid back into investing their pension pot into big oil (26% £26.6 million investment in BP), though to be fair their investment in Tesla is slightly larger.
Correction (EW): h/t Robert Pollock – the BBC investment in BP is £26.6 million, not 26%.
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All the BBC Climate Change articles have disapeared off their ”’science”’ page.
It was inundated now theres none.
Something is going down.
Wiki has a most interesting entry for Extinction Rebellion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion
I was looking for their funding source, but that is not identified. Worth a read for those interested though.
“…climate change campaigners who are demanding it (BBC) uses its status as national broadcaster to declare a “climate and ecological emergency..”
This is the perfect recipe for Fake News. They dont ask for investigative journalism they just ask them to take dictation or make it up.
The is only one thing which may bring the Greens to their senses. That’s when the power system ceases to function as a result of the renewables.
Then we may see the two day working week and many businesses to survive , will leave the country. In plain English, when the SHIT finally hits the Fan. Not before.
Up till then we will see all sorts of excuses as to why this or that has happened.
MJE
Nah they’ll just blame the “deniers” as they come out with any excuse in the book to claim it wasn’t their nonsense that cause it and insist that even more useless green idea need to be implemented to fix all the problem that the previous green idea caused (like the power system collapse and business exodus). In short they’ll never come to their senses because they’re the “virtuous” ones who are trying to “save the planet” so no matter what the negative consequences are their actions are right and just and it’s everyone else’s fault when things don’t work out.