Extinction Rebellion Lincoln
Mail on Sunday saw a ludicrous feature on Extinction Rebellion, they were deluded, they wished to take us back to a fossil free dark age.
No, they recognise we face a Climate Emergency, that a fossil free future is our only future.
London, key points were taken. It was not until the third day BBC started to report.
Police have been deployed to arrest peaceful protesters. Would they not be better deployed to deal with knife crime?
Arresting people is pointless, and on dodgy legal grounds. For every person arrested, two more take their place.
Nothing learnt from Civil Rights protests in US. Arresting people, more take to the streets.
In Algeria and Sudan, the people have taken to the streets, faced down oppression, kicked two brutal dictators out of office.
In Lincoln, on Day 4, a small gathering under a tree in the High Street.
Were they there days before, I do not know.
One ignorant man shouted abuse, hit out at the disruption in London.
That disruption is as nothing when London floods due to rising sea levels.
Extinction Rebellion have taken direct action as a last resort, for far too long our corrupt politicians have been in the pocket of big business, giving the go ahead to fracking, to Heathrow expansion, subsidies to oil industry, go ahead for open cast mining.
Direct action is the only action that has ever changed anything.
It will cost far more not to address climate change to sit back and do nothing.
Protesters in Lincoln were calling on Lincoln City Council to declare a Climate Emergency, as many councils already have, to halt the Western Growth Corridor.
Activists need to seize control of the local Town Hall, to end the one-party state in the pocket of the local coop and big business, follow the example of Madrid, Barcelona and A Coruña, open to public participation, network across Europe with other citizen-controlled Town Halls.
Lincoln and Lincolnshire have an appalling bus service. Try getting a bus to anywhere after 1900 in the evening.
The pedestrianised High Street is not. Lorries drive through any time of the day. No enforcement action, local council and police turn a blind eye.
There is a ban between 1000 and 1600, but no one takes a blind bit of notice.
There should be a ban 24/7, emergency vehicles only. Lorries park on the periphery, deliver by hand cart and trolley. The norm in Europe
Maybe they will, but the protesters should have sat down on High Bridge and blocked the High Street.
Ban wood burning stoves from the city.
It beggars belief we still build new build with no solar panels on the roof.
We need local area power distribution networks, owned and controlled by the local community, into which feed renewables paid a fair price, consumers pay a fair price. Surplus generation fed to other local networks via a publicly owned National Grid. Any ‘profit’ either fed back into the system or used to fund local community projects. Electric cars provide a nighttime base load.
Avoid any corporate chain coffee shops, enjoy specialty coffee served in glass or ceramic in an indie coffee shop. In Lincoln that would be Coffee Aroma or Madame Waffle. Reusable coffee cups glass Keep Cup or bamboo ecoffeecup address symptoms not the underlying culture of grab it and go pointless consumption.
The planning application for a drive-thru Costa must be opposed. No one who loves coffee would be seen dead in Costa. More traffic. At a time when we should be reducing our dependency on the car, an application for yet another drive-thru. Local Coop once again acting for corporate chains whilst at the same time destroying Sincil Street. Those who love coffee relax in Coffee Aroma or Madame Waffle with specialty coffee served in glass or ceramic.
Brighton has Hisbe. Lincoln needs a zero waste store.
An animal diet, apart from being nutritionally dense thus better for our health, is environmentally sound, grass fed animals are part of the natural cycle, improving the soil acts as a carbon sink.
We need to re-wild.
We have to drastically reduce our emissions of carbon. The longer we delay, the deeper the cuts.
Children are going on strike on Fridays. They question why their future is being destroyed.
We need a Green New Deal.
Read This Changes Everything.
Hacks at failing local rags The Lincolnite and Lincolnshire Echo failed to cover the protest.
