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Had a dream that all those striking jumped at just the right time and at precisely the right angle that, combined, the Earth's orbit was shifted a miniscule amount so offsetting global heating/chaos/catastrophe/andthelike for a millennium. Do as much good as what is actually happening.
AK
Ross, I recon I got the same one wrong.
Mailman - protesting on your own time is no fun. Teachers are encouraging the kids because then they get a day off too.
TinyCO2
TinyCO2, I took the quiz I got 11/12. It should be given in every school and University in the country.
Ross Lea
Hasn't anyone ever asked the organisers why these strikes aren't held on the weekend? Or is a weekend strike inconvenient?
Mailman
https://order-order.com/2019/09/20/ready-climate-strike-take-quiz/
Quiz for striking kids
TinyCO2
Todays main campaign tweets Pushing their agenda, using Our money
"Climate change: 'I'll sacrifice my education for action'"
[Just how brainwashed are these people?]
https://www.twitter.com/BBCWalesNews/status/1174940916244570114
"Cut air pollution to fight climate change - UN"
https://www.twitter.com/KingsmeadGeog/status/1174915035409158146
"How to Save the World: Is individual action pointless in the face of climate change? by Justin Rowlatt, Chief environment correspondent"
https://www.twitter.com/BBCScienceNews/status/1174830913085222912
Global day of climate strike action"
Perhaps inevitably, it starts with a video of St Greta.
https://www.twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/1174939765293977605
Some Additional official tweets
- BBCBreakfast
"🌎 Millions are expected to take part in what could be the largest ever climate change protest today.
🌎 More than 5,000 demonstrations are planned in more than 150 countries.
🌏Follow live updates all day, from one end of the world to the other"
- @hughesroland Senior journalist on that BBC website
"We're covering the global climate strike all day today, from one end of the world to the other."
- bbc5live
"Director of WML Engineer Consulting, Andrew Leng is allowing his staff to #ClimateStrike today.
Here's why and how he was able to take part in the protest for #ClimateInCrisis"
Also - bbc5live
"#ClimateChange protests are happening across the world today
@The_TUC and @amnesty
are encouraging workers to join students in #ClimateStrike
@UKSCN1 says more than 200 events will take place across the UK"
- JenBartram IMPARTIAL bbc presenter
" It’s good to see climate change so high up the agenda in young people’s minds (and those who aren’t that young too). The consequences that we are already seeing are scary indeed."
stewgreen
Think I'm going back to bed, wake me when the strike is over.
AK
In 2015 the BBC's trick was to say
'We don't air skeptics cos that's FALSE BALANCE
.. we only air establishment authority figures'
BBC 2019 'Here's Greta, here's Greta again, here's Greta again'
Isn't that a huge contradiction ?
stewgreen
"Illiberal Undemocrats say ‘boll**ks’ to the people in the name of ‘liberalism’ and ‘democracy’"
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/469090-bournemouth-liberal-democrats-brexit-conference/
OK, so it's RT, but it still raised a smile. It's quite alarming when an RT propaganda piece is on-the-ball about western "liberalism".
Mark Hodgson
Mailman,
If you take your children out of school for a holiday or other reason not deemed justified you can be prosecuted. So I think all the parents of children who allowed them to join a climate strike should be persecuted.