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Should Climate Protesters Be Less Annoying?
(newrepublic.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
These protests have no connection to the issue. I honestly think many of them are paid by oil companies to make the environmental movement look bad.
Stopping personal traffic by blocking cars and being "annoying" in places that often are lit for no reason through entire nights are both protests very close to the issue.
Very interesting! I hadn't thought of that.