The World Is Not on Fire and We Do Not Need a Planet B

A written response to Extinction Rebellion, by HT

The summer is over, the children are back at private school and now it is time for Extinction Rebellion.

Extinction Rebellion has many names, but it’s the same people every time. Do they really think we don’t realise this? And they’re all the same type of people as well: middle class, comfortably off and astonishingly sanctimonious. It genuinely doesn’t occur to them to try and think about the misery they are inflicting on people less fortunate than themselves. If people are inconvenienced by their protests, well, too bad. If they cannot visit their relatives, never mind. If they miss a hospital appointment, or cannot get to A&E and die, or someone they love dies, so what? Oh dear, all in a good cause, we have a planet to save.

And what is all this about the planet? What is it they care about? Is it the science about global warming? Of course not. They haven’t read a climate science paper between them. They say the science is settled but that is just a slogan to them. In fact, the world they would have us live in would have no science in it at all.

What they care about is Gaia, nature, plants, trees, pagan gods and goddesses, anything whereby humans are relegated to a speck on the horizon. They would have us live in caves, reciting satanic spells and painting Celtic symbols on each other’s faces. If someone got sick or was mauled by a wild animal they would bathe their forehead with woad juice and watch them die from something that used to be easily curable. Then some indoctrinated oaf would give up a prayer to the Goddess of Eternal Drivel while microscopic wildlife is busily active in his never-washed hair.

But you can’t sit in the road chanting, We are morons, we are fools, We are smug and Satan rules. So it all gets sublimated into global warming slogans such as: There is no Planet B and The world is on fire!

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