THE QUORA QUESTION

How could Extinction Rebellion improve to get people to pay attention to their message rather than be annoyed by their actions?

ANSWER

Maybe they could be more polite about it but the real issue here I believe is James Lovelock and his Gaia hypothesis which says in essence that the real Bambi of Bambi environmentalism is the planet itself which he says, is a creature he calls GAIA that he says is alive but at the mercy of the humans because unrestrained and unsustainable growth of human civilization will do it in.

Once this bizarre hypothesis becomes your religion and you see your Goddess Gaia theatened by the humans, and the climate change movement brings it all together and identifies the devil in this threat to Gaia as fossil fuels, what would you, a devout follower of Gaia do?

In the context of your Gaia religion what would be excessive in your relgious activism to save Gaia? This is what we are dealing with. The Gaia religion has boarded the climate train. We are no longer dealing with climate science but with the religion it has become.

REPEAT: Once this bizarre hypothesis becomes your religion and you see your Goddess Gaia theatened by the humans, and the climate change movement brings it all together and identifies the devil in this threat to Gaia as fossil fuels, what would you, a devout follower of Gaia do?

In the context of your Gaia religion what would be excessive in your relgious activism to save Gaia? This is what we are dealing with. The Gaia religion has boarded the climate train. We are no longer dealing with THE SCIENCE OF CLIMATE SCIENCE BUT WITH THE RELIGION IT HAS BECOME. THE EXTINCTION REBELLION MOVEMENT MUST BE UNDERSTOOD AS RELIGION NO DIFFERENT FROM THE TALIBAN OR FROM ANY OF THE BIZARRE, DESTRUCTIVE, AND MURDEROUS RELIGIOUS ACTIVISM IN THE HISTORY OF THE HUMANS.

SEE ALSO: Michael E. Smith, Religious Activism: The Historical Record, 27 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1087 (1986),
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmlr/vol27/iss5/16