There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada.

The Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley are now completely cut off from the rest of British Columbia and the country by road.

minininja wrote:Yeah, there's no choice left but to attempt to organise mass civil disobedience. Too many governments have wasted every chance to do the right thing and have again sided with fossil fuel companies. I've supported XR, mostly from a distance, for a long while, but I'm going to be getting more actively involved from now on.

Around 60 cars in the city's wealthy West End had tyres deflated by activists who left leaflets on windscreens urging owners to replace their cars with smaller vehicles or use public transport.

The protest was carried out by the group Tyred of SUVs, a spin-off from Glasgow Calls Out Polluters, which has its origins in Glasgow University student climate activism.

Citing figures from the International Energy Agency (IEA), a spokesman for Tyred of SUVs said: "If 4x4 drivers were a nation, they'd be the seventh biggest polluters on the planet.

"If the one per cent won't take responsibility for the climate destruction they wreak, we'll make them."

Its leaflets warned drivers that their car had been "disarmed" by "deflating one or more of its tyres". The group said it had not damaged any vehicles in the action.

"Unnecessary luxury lifestyle choices in rich countries are part of what is driving the climate breakdown," the flyer adds.

Alan C wrote:Why is fossil fuel subsidised, don't they make enough profits?

n a listicle attached to the story, Leyden and Schwartz predicted "ten scenario spoilers" that would "cut short" the economic boom of the 1990s.
– Tensions between China and the US escalate into a new Cold War — bordering on a hot one.
– New technologies turn out to be a bust. They simply don't bring the expected productivity increases or the big economic boosts,
– Russia devolves into a kleptocracy run by a mafia or retreats into quasi-communist nationalism that threatens Europe.
– Europe's integration process grinds to a halt. Eastern and Western Europe can't finesse a reunification, and even the European Unification process breaks down.
– Major ecological crisis causes a global climate change that, among other things, disrupts the food supply - causing big price increases everywhere and sporadic famines.
– Major rise in crime and terrorism forces the world to pull back in fear. People who constantly feel they could be blown up or ripped off are not in the mood to reach out and open up.
– The cumulative escalation in pollution causes a dramatic increase in cancer, which overwhelms the ill-prepared health system.
– Energy prices go through the roof. Convulsions in the Middle East disrupt the oil supply, and alternative energy sources fail to materialize.
– An uncontrollable plague - a modern-day influenza epidemic or its equivalent takes off like wildfire, killing upward of 200 million people.
– A social and cultural backlash stops progress dead in its tracks, human beings need to choose to move forward. They just may not...

Keep It Real wrote:

minininja wrote:Yeah, there's no choice left but to attempt to organise mass civil disobedience. Too many governments have wasted every chance to do the right thing and have again sided with fossil fuel companies. I've supported XR, mostly from a distance, for a long while, but I'm going to be getting more actively involved from now on.

I've, in a very sincere way, fallen out of love with XR because I do not think demanding a legally binding Citizen's Assembly on climate change will ever happen, due to, amongst other things, politicians believing in democracy and their careers and that they have egos and so they're incapable of holding up their hands and saying "you're right XR et al - we're incapable of doing our jobs!" At least not before the proverbial plane crashes into the proverbial mountain. On a brighter note however:

Around 60 cars in the city's wealthy West End had tyres deflated by activists who left leaflets on windscreens urging owners to replace their cars with smaller vehicles or use public transport.

The protest was carried out by the group Tyred of SUVs, a spin-off from Glasgow Calls Out Polluters, which has its origins in Glasgow University student climate activism.

Citing figures from the International Energy Agency (IEA), a spokesman for Tyred of SUVs said: "If 4x4 drivers were a nation, they'd be the seventh biggest polluters on the planet.

"If the one per cent won't take responsibility for the climate destruction they wreak, we'll make them."

Its leaflets warned drivers that their car had been "disarmed" by "deflating one or more of its tyres". The group said it had not damaged any vehicles in the action.

"Unnecessary luxury lifestyle choices in rich countries are part of what is driving the climate breakdown," the flyer adds.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/climate-activists-target-suvs-and-let-down-tyres/ar-AAQDt4v?ocid=uxbndlbing&pfr=1