Starting Monday July 15th, Extinction Rebellion UK Will Rise Up In An Organic, De-Centralised, Coordinated Action, With The Message: ACT NOW, Disrupting Central Spaces In The Following 5 Cities:
– Bristol (XR South-west England)
– Cardiff (XR Wales)
– Leeds (XR North England)
– London (XR Central England)
– Glasgow (XR Scotland)

Disruption will likely involve blocking a major road or occupying a space, using a significant object painted with the message ‘ACT NOW‘. This action will run for an indefinite amount of time, so please book a week off work....

...Codename Operation Mushroom was chosen as a metaphor for how the ‘spores’ from the International Rebellion in London have spread across the nation, to ‘sprout’ similar major protests in 4 other locations in the UK.

It also symbolises how a national underground mycelium network of communication and support has developed....

...This Is An Emergency: We Need To ACT NOW!
Operation Mushroom’s overall messaging will convey WHY WE NEED TO ACT NOW (Demand #2), clearly stating that 2050 is ecocide and a death sentence for all.

Two significant underlying motivations for this national action are the flawed Citizens Assembly announced by six select committees of the House of Commons, and the way in which government is continuing with business as usual, complicitly enabling corporations to profit from exploiting people and planet, despite Parliament declaring a Climate and Ecological Emergency.

Extinction Rebellion Gloucester wrote:The government has so far made nothing more than tokenistic noises as far as meeting XRs demands is concerned. Do not be fooled by this vacuous lip service. ZERO substantial policies have been initiated regarding reducing greenhouse gas emissions and avoiding an ecological apocalypse. 5 cities around the country are hosting uprisings next week - for the Gloxers our closest one is Bristol. Check out their facebook page for all the details. The XR spirit burns brightly indeed in Briz and we will be very welcome no doubt whatsoever. They need our support - the planet needs our support, now more than ever - ACT NOW!

The world population is increasing by over 2.5 times the death rate each year.

The UN discounts the claims of these experts, relying on the authority of experience. “We imagine that countries that currently have higher levels of fertility and lower levels of life expectancy will make progress in the future in a similar manner, at a similar speed, to what was experienced by countries in the past,” John Wilmoth, director of the UN Population Division, says. “It’s all grounded in past experience.”

But the dissident demographers think this is wrong, primarily because the UN is failing to account for an accelerating decline in fertility as a result of urbanisation. In 2007, for the first time in human history, the majority of people in the world lived in cities. Today, it’s 55%. In three decades, it will be two-thirds.

Japan shrinking as birthrate falls to lowest level in history | World news ...
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Dec 27, 2018 - In 2018 there were 921000 births and 1.37m deaths, with government efforts failing to ... .

It is estimated that 83 countries, representing 46 percent of the world’s population of 7.6 billion, are experiencing below-replacement fertility. The 10 most populous countries with fertility rates below two births per woman, by ranking, are: China, United States, Brazil, Russia, Japan, Vietnam, Germany, Iran, Thailand and Britain.

As a result of the negative rates of natural increase, coupled with what we demographers call “insufficient compensating immigration,” the populations of nearly 40 countries, including China, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain and Ukraine, are expected to become smaller by 2050 (Figure 2). The populations of more than 60 countries are projected to be smaller by the end of the century.

The great defining event of the twenty-first century—one of the great defining events in human history—will occur in three decades, give or take, when the global population starts to decline. Once that decline begins, it will never end. We do not face the challenge of a population bomb but of a population bust—a relentless, generation-after-generation culling of the human herd. Nothing like this has ever happened before.

tuco wrote:What are you debating?