"Any activists who plant these [apocalyptic] fictions in the minds of the young and the vulnerable, any activists who denigrate the achievements of research and technology, any activists campaigning on total fear and anxiety are promulgating political propaganda and unforgivable irresponsibility."

"Extinction Rebellion’s shocking success can be put down to decades of activist fear-mongering that has created a disorder known as eco-anxiety. Vulnerable, caring people have heard repeated messages of pending apocalyptic doom (climate, bees, sterility, plastics…) to the point they are so freaked out they can no longer function or plan for the future. Story piles upon story until the depression is too strong for upset people to even bother to critically analyse the crap being disseminated...

"Perhaps it’s time for some reality amidst the heightened absurdity of over-extended [environmentalist] campaign rhetoric:

• The human race will not go extinct in 12 years. No credible scientist has ever said that. 

• Industry and innovative technologies are making progress in reducing CO2 emissions in most Western countries. Emerging markets are following fast even as their economies expand.

• Outside of a few Emerging Asian river basins, the oceans are not choking on plastic waste. National waste management and recycling systems improve with development.

• Farmers are meeting growing global food needs and conservation agriculture with ag-tech is improving soil health. Shifting to organic and agroecological systems would decimate biodiversity and increase global food insecurity.

• Accounting for extended life expectancy, cancers rates are not increasing and medical advances have improved cancer survival rates.

• The honeybees are not going extinct and a good part of any biodiversity loss is due largely to urbanisation.

"Any activists who plant these fictions in the minds of the young and the vulnerable, any activists who denigrate the achievements of research and technology, any activists campaigning on total fear and anxiety are promulgating political propaganda and unforgivable irresponsibility." 

~ From the 'RiskMonger' post 'What Monty Python can teach us about Extinction Rebellion'

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