XR TASMANIA INVITES HOBART SHOPPERS TO STEP RIGHT UP TO A PLANET CLEARANCE SALE
Extinction Rebellion Australia, 1 Dec 2021
XR skeletons came out to play in Hobart on the corporate-driven ‘Black Friday’ festival of consumerism.
“Last year will go down as the first time that the global average temperature exceeded 1.5C above preindustrial times over a calendar year. We could crash permanently through the 1.5C guardrail within the next five years, and shatter the 2C limit as soon as 2034. This will almost certainly result in the tipping points for collapse of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets being crossed committing us to the drowning of coastal towns and cities.”
(From Scientists prize neutrality – that doesn’t cut it any more. In 2025, they must fully back the climate movement by Bill McGuire and Roger Hallam,The Guardian, 10 Jan 2025.)
Bill McGuire is professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at UCL and author of Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant’s Guide. Roger Hallam is co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil. As noted in the Guardian article, both have first-hand experience of the government’s harsh treatment of climate activists and attempts to block the build-up of pressure for climate action.
