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Glandular climate hippies Extinction Rebellion occupy island in Hofvijver, chain themselves – The Daily Standard

This afternoon, the police put an end to one of the more hopeless demonstrations of the year. A group of Extinction Rebellion squatters have sailed to and occupied the small island in the Hofvijver in The Hague. “The climate crisis is not going on vacation,” was their message. Well, climate change has just been canceled thanks to this heroic action!

Now all chain to trees and shrubs on uninhabited mini islands. And quickly a bit, because that will save the climate! At least that’s the simplistic story that a bunch of hippies from Extinction Rebellion would have you believe. Because oh, oh, oh, what’s 2020 not their year. If there had been so much hyped that climate change would be the top theme for the coming years, then suddenly it appears that such a pandemic comes along that hijacks current events, politics and the total sense of urgency. Away momentum for climate policy!

All Extinction Rebellion has to do is shout a little. Very hard, hoping that there is only someone who will catch it from behind the mask in the home quarantine. And those people did that by trampling on the little bit of nature that still remains in the center of The Hague: the people of this climate club came ashore with their mud barges on this piece of untouched nature and started to occupy it.

The demands of the climate kiddos were remarkably vague. They demanded “climate justice” and wanted the cabinet to set up a “Citizen Council” which would then “play a leading role in the just transition” to a society without CO2 emissions was too read on social media. Gaap, is Extinction Rebellion suddenly in the hands of municipal officials with their woolly lyrics, or something?

It is hardly boring, but fortunately they still had the “lock-ons” with which she could chain herself to the island. Not that that lasted long, because by the end of the afternoon, the police had already chased the wannabe rioters off the islet, with open locks and all. Nobody cared beforehand, and in retrospect Extinction Rebellion secured more face palms than real trees. anxiously waiting for a heat death from a warming planet.

But hey, luckily they still have the pictures!




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