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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Government of the Australian state of Victoria has urged climate protestors to cancel their planned protest on Friday, to avoid diverting police away from bushfire emergencies.
Victorian ministers urge climate activists to cancel protest on high fire danger day
Emergency services minister says it’s ‘reckless and selfish’ to rally when police are busy in bushfire-affected communities
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The demonstration has been set down for Friday night in Melbourne’s CBD in response to the bushfires, which have blackened more than 1.2m hectares of Victoria.
Authorities on Wednesday urged Uni Students for Climate Justice organisers to call off the action, change the date or at least confine it to one spot.
The emergency services minister, Lisa Neville, said she was stunned to hear the protests were going ahead when fire conditions were expected to worsenand urged organisers to reconsider.
“This is a really reckless and selfish thing people are doing,” she said.
“I don’t want to see police having to pull people out of [fire-affected] communities to come in and manage a protest.
“There is a time for protests. It’s not this Friday.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/08/victorian-ministers-urge-climate-activists-to-cancel-protest-on-high-fire-danger-day
Police are needed to help people evacuate, to direct traffic, and deter looting in evacuation zones.
Climate protestors shouldn’t have had to be told; forcing police and emergency services to divert resources to managing climate protests in the middle of a bushfire crisis is selfish and irresponsible.
Simple question for Nick Stokes.
Do you support the use of Fuel Reduction Burning, Yes or No.
Yes,
I find when WUWT posts more and more of these stories, they are showing their debasement to the lowest common denominator.
Sad really this use to be a good site. If this is the quality of the new and improved WUWT –more and more fake news, and I mean news (sic) that is not relevant to the story at hand but simply meant as clickbait or to inspire the kneejerkers– then I’m out.
What does it help Anthony by throwing gasoline on an already raging fire?
Michael, That is a Very interesting observation.
Anthony needs to keep a close eye on the balance of international/local and scientific/political/human interest – but it is his website.
I have been following this website for many years, but have only recently started commenting – because I am extremely interested in the bushfires situation ( living and working in extreme bushfire prone area) and I really appreciate these articles.
The time may have arrived for us to remove the cloak of respectability from the Greens and stop calling them Greens. We need to call them what they are, social anarchists. The ambition of the so called Greens, is to destroy stable, safe, evolved and prosperous society.
They have distilled their bitter hate for all things positive about humanity, into a quasi religion. They have given their destruction/anarchist movement a Green veneer, in an attemptto appeal to as wide an audience as possible. Sadly, well meaning individuals have fallen into their Green Marxist trap, and are finding it hard to disengage. Informed humanity has to win this battle for the minds of normal people, or humanity is destined to fall into the abyss of regressive thinking.
Dark ages happen.
This comment is so absurd and is generated by a kind of blind hatred that shows
almost no understanding of Australia’s politics, or any kind of history of politics
or any idea of anything much at all
The Greens as a political party have a little more than 0% in anarchist tendencies
They are social progressives, Keynsians in their economics, with marxist tendecies
towards addressing massive wealth inequalities. They are moderates. Do hear them calling for
the overthrow of the capitalist state? They are part of the capitalist state, they work for and in it!
The climate protesters should be arrested, then driven out to the nearest burn site, given a hose and told to start spraying water at the fire, and they will be driven back home when the fire is out. This will result in either more people fighting the fires or fewer protesters, or both.
Win/win!
Thanks Nick, I was hoping that was your answer.
Maybe a little more credence to the science that supports FRB’s perhaps?
I don’t know. Maybe letting a bunch of people carry a giant vinyl banner during a big fire will somehow prove educational.
I live in the state of Victoria in the bush not far from Melbourne,the police should not bother protecting these greenie idiots in their march. It would be a perfect opportunity to teach them a lesson in manners.
See JoNova’s recent thread, “The information war about astonishing arson figures,” at
http://joannenova.com.au/2020/01/the-information-war-about-arson-figures/
Firebugs are the elephant in the room here. Most of the fires I see on the “fire map” seem to have been started alongside roads.
Yet many of these same activists are being charged with arson to “bring heightened awareness” to the climate hoax. SMH
Yeah, they are out lighting fires in Melbourne stopping The tennis – same every year.