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    John Rentoul doesn't seem to understand very much.....Greenpeace and Rishi Sunak's Yorkshire house Archived Message

    Posted by John Monro on August 4, 2023, 9:44 pm

    https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/greenpeace-protest-rishi-sunak-house-b2387669.html

    This article is behind a paywall. However the headline is probably all that's needed

    Greenpeace’s attack on Rishi Sunak’s home is a violation that only trashes their brand

    The stunt by five Greenpeace activists who climbed on to the roof of Rishi Sunak’s home and draped it in black cloth was no silly student caper, it was harassment, writes John Rentoul. It could hardly have been better designed to undermine public support for its cause


    It's a normal Greenpeace stunt. Why should Rishi be given any quarter by their eironmental activism when he's just announced 100 new oil and gas exploration licenses in the North Sea. Climate scientists have said this plain for a number of years, the planet cannot afford us to find or use any fossil fuels we find as we already know we have more than enough to ruin the planet and our futuref it's all burnt. Rishi Sunak is guilty, along with his colleagues and even more tragically the opposition of ecocide.

    And John Rentoul complains they have draped a black cloth over his home? (A Yorkshire mansion, to go with his Kensington one and his Mayfair flat and his Californian home) Greenpeace had sufficient choice. John Rentoul doesn't seem to understand what social unrest can actually cause, when the house will likely end up torched if the citizen's anger and frustration are allowed to continue to build up and central authority vanishes. So "Trashing the Brand" is the problem?? What about "Trashing the Planet John?

    All around the word, environmental activists face imprisonment or worse, many have been murdered, it even happened here in NZ with the Rainbow Warrior bombing and a Portuguese photographer Fernando Pereira was killed. John Rentoul you are on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of moral responsibility.

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