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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Extinction Rebellion has promised to do all they can to disrupt the supply of gasoline to UK motorists, to create a “tipping point” in which people abandon fossil fuel.
END THE FOSSIL FUEL ECONOMY: Extinction Rebellion releases plan to block UK oil refineries in April
March 09, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion
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#ExtinctionRebellion #EndFossilFilth #RebelforLifeExtinction Rebellion launched plans this morning to block major UK oil refineries in April as part of their Rebellion, beginning on April 9th. Although the exact locations are yet to be made public, the group says it intends to ‘stop the harm at the source’ and create enough disruption to force the UK government to commit to Extinction Rebellion’s immediate demand: to stop the fossil fuel economy.
Laser focused action will target the fossil fuel industry to cause maximum nonviolent disruption and tell the story of the fossil fuelled corruption at the heart of our democracy, while standing in solidarity with all people around the world who are defending their lives, land, wildlife and cultures in the face of the crisis.
Extinction Rebellion will pull together with other movements for change to disrupt the fossil fuel industry enough to create a tipping point moment. The group Just Stop Oil will also be blocking refineries across the UK, with other groups to be confirmed. A spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion said, “We are calling on protest groups, NGOs and individuals to join us and take a stand to stop fossil fuels once and for all. Now is the time, this is the moment. Don’t sit this one out!”
The plans come amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and on the heels of last week’s dire IPCC report and , which acknowledges the ‘widespread’ damage that is already happening, and that the limits of adaptation are now being breached.
Tim Crosland of Plan B, said: “Our addiction to fossil fuels must end immediately if there’s to be any hope left of tackling the climate crisis. There can be no denying this anymore. Last week’s devastating IPCC report is just the latest in a series of increasingly desperate warnings from scientists. We know what is happening, we know what needs to be done and we know those in power are failing us.
“The Ukraine conflict and the climate crisis have the same underlying cause: the imperialist pursuit of land and resources for profit, concentrating power in the hands of toxic individuals and corporations. By decarbonising our economies we can take power back from war mongers and change course, averting climate breakdown and collapse. But it must happen now, before governments use the conflict as an excuse to get off Russian oil and gas, only to begin drilling closer to home.”
Clare Farrell, Extinction Rebellion co-founder said: “Oil refineries are symbolic of continued extraction and profit for a small group of very wealthy companies at the expense of everyone else. We burn them, pollute our cities, poison ourselves and our children whilst committing to climate breakdown. It’s no wonder the entire environmental movement is focussing on ending fossil fuels and the death they cause. The writing is on the wall, and we are out of time.
“We face an ongoing cost of living crisis with fossil fuel companies making record breakingly massive profits. We have failed to insulate homes or make progress on energy efficiency here in the UK and experts are expecting an especially difficult winter later this year unless bold effort is made in the name of protecting the vulnerable and the poor. The government’s net zero commitments are being called into question, with some politicians and think tanks calling for a referendum on net zero, claiming that British people “can’t afford” to address climate change. But the truth is the opposite, the UK can afford to change and we can’t afford not to.
“Boris Johnson arguing for a ‘climate change pass’ involving new fossil fuel development sidelines the decades of failure to prevent millions of deaths from pollution and climate breakdown by building in decades more failure and more millions of deaths. We need to decarbonise and to do so as fast as possible.”
This morning, Extinction Rebellion UK sent a letter to the UK Government to state the April plans. The letter says, “Every day the UK government fails to act makes our common future more bleak, our prospects more terrifying. And you know this. You have understood implicitly the path our planet is on since Sir Patrick Vallance, Government Chief Scientific Adviser presented the facts to you on 28 January 2020.”
It concludes: “So, either you do what the entire scientific community and the International Energy Agency is telling us we need to do to save ourselves and stop all fossil fuel investments immediately, or in April we are going to do what you refuse to do. We’re going to stop the UK oil flow and bring the country with us.”
Following the beginning of the refineries blockades, Extinction Rebellion will then ‘flood London’ with people from the 9th April. With a simple, agile, participation design, we plan to be easy to find, easy to join, disruptive and impossible to ignore. We will create the most roadblocks we ever have with a new and impactful action design.
On the heels of the Extinction Rebellion 2022 UK Strategy released in January, arguably XR UK’s most exciting plan of action yet, the Rebellion aims to reignite XR’s original Theory of Change, and mass mobilise towards 3.5% of the population. This will mean a move away from Rebellions involving multiple targeted direct actions, towards focused acts of mass participation to overwhelm the state.
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Read more: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2022/03/09/end-the-fossil-fuel-economy-extinction-rebellion-releases-plan-to-block-uk-oil-refineries-in-april/
You might think Russia has already delivered enough fossil fuel disruption, but Extinction Rebellion seem keen to finish the job. Fossil fuel deliveries are not that difficult to disrupt, as Russia discovered in the Ukraine. Big tanks of flammable liquid want to burn – and Extinction Rebellion seem ready to supply the metaphorical match.
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Has Griff been called up to the front lines or is he too important in the back office with media operations?
Rather than stopping all of us from getting the fuel we need why don’t Extinction Rebellion show us how it is done ??? Why don’t they stop using oil and gas and petrol and IF it works for them – WE WILL FOLLOW. But to keep stopping us all from living our lives WE WILL MAKE BLOODY SURE THEY CANNOT LIVE THEIRS if it is the LAST thing we do !!!!!!!!!!!
Well, this may bring extinction to Extinction Rebellion.
Lunatics. Dangerous lunatics…..
William Briggs recently exposed his part in breaking the UK Coal Strike — a communist planned and executed attempt to bring the UK to its knees in 1969 — I remember following it in the news day after day. (I have asked him for the link — as I have lost it.)
This XR effort is of the same ilk, sponsored and paid for by the same people. It used to be ComIntern but is now a more shadowy group — maybe the international department of Russia’s central committee. Since Putin replaced the government of Russia with what had previously been the KGB, who knows what they call it. It still has the same purpose: Destroy Western Free Societies.
Not Briggs! It was Monckton here: “The Strategic Threat from Net-zero Emissions“>
Sums it all up perfectly! We have all been well & truly, & in some cases, deservedly so, led down the merry path of stupidity & naivety, perhaps there is a way back to common sense (taboo I know), perhaps not, but I for one have had my fill of the Green BS I & others have been fed for far too long!!!
I think the continued ability for these Marxist idiots to breathe needs to be disrupted.
They may be idiots, but they are not marxists.
There are no marxists left in the UK.
There are, unfortunately, a lot of Marxists left in the UK – Jonathan Lansman, head of Momentum, is a self confessed Marxist as are many Momentum members; Corbyn and several of his acolytes in the Labour party are Marxists. Marxism in the UK has always been an odd duck – generally made up of champagne socialists and ‘daddy’s little rebels’ – for most it’s a social club and a phase of rebellion they go through before swinging back to the other end of the political spectrum. For the few that have never grown up, however, it remains their political ‘safety blanket.’
Time for extinction rebellion to become extinct .
They could practice what they preach as an example to all their followers by not using any fossil fuelled products of modern civilisation , ie go live in a cave instead of interfering with other peoples lives .
I see where you’re coming from, but it is we peasants/plebeians who must give up modern civilisation, not the intellectual ruling elites. However democracy still rules in the UK, at elections we have the options of voting for Tree-hugger A, Tree-hugger B, or Tree-hugger C, all three pledged to save the World from an horrific global warming rate of 1/7000th of a degree per year!!!
Well every point of view has its idiots and these are certainly idiots.
Just think of them as being on the same spectrum as QANON and the NWO conspiracists.
Tell you what Griffy-poo, how about if you and XR go to Ukraine and rebel for life there. Take your protest signs with you addressing the climate, fossil fuels, etc. We’ll see if the Russians show any interest in your concerns when you start shelling you during your protests.
The nice comfy cushy life you and XR live there in Britain is something many Ukrainians could only wish for right now as their cities are destroyed and their lives are severly upended or snuffed out. Meanwhile the rest of us here in the West wonder if a nuclear WWIII is in the offing. The climate is the last thing on the minds of Ukrainians right now, and it probably will be for long time.
Guess who the real idiot is here Griffy-poo?
Actually Griffy, if we’re discussing extremist idiots, they are far more akin to Antifa and BLM – other groups that seem to think using domestic terror as a legitimate campaign tool is acceptable.
Perhaps build some environment friendly wind farms in eastern Ukraine.
I’m sure the Russians would be keen to help….or maybe they already are.
There are plenty of useful idiots about