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What are Extinction Rebellion’s demands?
The UK group has three core demands:

1) Tell the truth
The government must tell the truth about the scale of the ecological crisis by declaring a climate emergency, “working with other groups and institutions to communicate the urgent need for change”.

2) Net zero emissions by 2025
The UK must drastically cut its greenhouse gas emissions, hitting net zero by 2025.

3) Citizens’ assembly
The government must create a citizens’ assembly to hear evidence and devise policy to tackle the climate crisis. Citizens’ assemblies bring together ordinary people to investigate, discuss and make recommendations on how to respond, in this case, to the ecological emergency.

ericvv wrote:

Here is someone who dares to call a spade a spade. Cannot agree more.
Eric

Rashers wrote:

I have a local coffee shop near where I work which I frequent regularly.
It is owned by a brother and sister who are trying to make their shop as environmentally possible, well as far as is practicable.
I was sitting in having my regular decaffeinated latte one Friday lunchtime when a lady walked in and introduced herself as a Journalist from the local paper the Eastern Daily Press.
She was running an article on businesses doing their bit to reduce plastics and other 'un-recyclables'. Obviously coffee shops have had a bad press and the take out cups in particular. The brother explained to the lady how they were changing to using biodegradable cups (at an extra cost to their selves) at some point in the future and also how they now get their coffee beans in bulk in a reusable box rather than in the usual plastic bags which had to be thrown out and were un recyclable. (the coffee isn't grown locally but is roasted about 400 yard up the road)
Now all was going well until she asked his name and his age. She then asked the other lady who was working the afternoon shift her name and age. A photograph was taken (I was invited to participate in this, but I always tick the box which states no publicity). After the interview I asked her whether she would answer me a question. "Why do you always ask peoples ages and what difference does it make to the story?" I was always taught not to ask peoples age as this was immensely rude. Every story they write always goes the same way "Jane Smith, 23 said......" I said I found it rude and un-necersary. She couldn't answer my question but said that was how they were taught to do it.
The wife of one of the Guys I worked with got her story in the Mirror a couple of weeks ago and when I read the story, at no point was her age mentioned. So Daily Mirror journalists are taught differently??
As the lady went to leave, she was invited to have a 'free' coffee on the house. She was asked whether she would be sitting in or taking away? "Oh takeaway please" she replied. More land-fill. Oh, the irony! You will be pleased to know none of us even cracked a smile until the lady was well out of the door