Global Affairs: When green protesters hurt their own cause
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Note how GretaThunberg followers are resorting to protests and even some violence to pressure the govt and business community to adopt measures to save the planet:
The people behind this mass act of disobedience, which was repeated in smaller versions in many other capitals, call themselves the Extinction Rebellion, a pressure group established last year with the explicit aim of disrupting public life in order to force governments to face up to the risk of an ecological disaster.
Greta Thunberg's (in)famous battle cry: "How dare you?! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," a visibly angry Greta scolded world leaders assembled in the United Nations building in New York recently.
it's easy for Britain to be at the forefront of such pledges, since it has almost no manufacturing sector and its services-led economy relies on other countries to produce the energy-intensive goods it consumes.
in reality, many of those who back environmentalist movements in Europe are middle-aged and middle-class white men and women, people who don't have to worry about their next meal, and have plenty of time to go on demonstrations.
Even if all airline flights stopped completely and continued to be banned until the end of this century, the rise in temperatures by the year 2100 would decline by only a projected 0.5 deg C. And even if most current cars were to be replaced by electric models, carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions would go down by a mere half a percentage point.
The salvation lies not in reversing the industrial revolution and returning humanity to the 18th century, but in technological innovation. As fuel cell technology scientist Don Huberts aptly remarked a few decades ago, "the Stone Age did not end because the world ran out of stones", but because humans evolved to use other implements and commodities. The same is already happening today, as fossil fuels are being replaced by cleaner technologies.
Qns:
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Note how GretaThunberg followers are resorting to protests and even some violence to pressure the govt and business community to adopt measures to save the planet:
The people behind this mass act of disobedience, which was repeated in smaller versions in many other capitals, call themselves the Extinction Rebellion, a pressure group established last year with the explicit aim of disrupting public life in order to force governments to face up to the risk of an ecological disaster.
Greta Thunberg's (in)famous battle cry: "How dare you?! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," a visibly angry Greta scolded world leaders assembled in the United Nations building in New York recently.
it's easy for Britain to be at the forefront of such pledges, since it has almost no manufacturing sector and its services-led economy relies on other countries to produce the energy-intensive goods it consumes.
in reality, many of those who back environmentalist movements in Europe are middle-aged and middle-class white men and women, people who don't have to worry about their next meal, and have plenty of time to go on demonstrations.
Even if all airline flights stopped completely and continued to be banned until the end of this century, the rise in temperatures by the year 2100 would decline by only a projected 0.5 deg C. And even if most current cars were to be replaced by electric models, carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions would go down by a mere half a percentage point.
The salvation lies not in reversing the industrial revolution and returning humanity to the 18th century, but in technological innovation. As fuel cell technology scientist Don Huberts aptly remarked a few decades ago, "the Stone Age did not end because the world ran out of stones", but because humans evolved to use other implements and commodities. The same is already happening today, as fossil fuels are being replaced by cleaner technologies.
Qns:
1. Assess the view that attempts to control climate change can never be
truly effective. (Cam. 2017)
2. ‘The real heroes of environmentalism are rebels.’ Discuss. (ACJC Prelim 2019)
2. ‘The real heroes of environmentalism are rebels.’ Discuss. (ACJC Prelim 2019)
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