Yesterday (Saturday), a team of volunteer mechanics offered free bike health checks in the space under Abingdon Museum. This happens under the auspices of One Planet Abingdon from 10:30 to 13:00 on the third Saturday of each month.
In the basement, in the the One Planet Abingdon Climate Emergency Centre, John Killick stands with the Biodiversity Exhibition. He offers Biodiversity tours round St Ethelwold’s Garden. Protecting and restoring land for the benefit of people and wildlife is one of the ten parts of the One Planet Living Framework. (See https://oneplanet.com/about/one-planet-living-framework/).
Another volunteer used their skills in massage to promote Health and Wellbeing, another part of the framework.
Carol had done a cooking course with One Planet Abingdon, and afterwards has made a blanket which will be raffled to raise money for the centre.
Similar to how people can send cards to people on Amnesty International fact sheets, there is a chance to send cards in solidarity with those in prison for our planet.
Those in prison for our planet? I assume they broke the law – the ends do not justify the means
“the ends do not justify the means” that’s their decision, not yours.
They took part in the protest in the full knowledge that they could go to prison, and yet they still went ahead and did it. Because the situation is so serious and the response from our leaders so abysmal that it poses a threat to us all, even you.
They have a right to protest but not to block highways etc and stop people getting to work or going to hospital. That is unacceptable.
They are not the architects of environmental vandalism, which by any measure is more than unfortunate.
Protest is disruptive by it’s very nature. Any kind of protest must involve some disruption to somebody.
Of course if you don’t agree with the cause then you are unlikely to support the action but in the case of climate collapse, the science is very much against you.
I do agree with the cause, but I don’t support much of the action.
You don’t support fixing bikes or displays and expertise? You don’t support handmade blankets?
What does an acceptable way to support the cause look like?
no disrespect but if it’s the people i think it is, they are the architects of their own misfortune.
They are not the architects of environmental vandalism, which by any measure is more than unfortunate.
Sometimes the protest is good even if the impact is bad. I was an IRN reporter at both Greenham and Molesworth and whilst I did not agree with their protest then, they were right.