XR and Tldr

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Extinction Rebellion; a dear and very mindful friend has joined Extinction Rebellion, taking on board its call to civil disobedience. I see the reasoning behind the call - the claim is made that nothing else has influence - but the demands of Extinction Rebellion leave me baffled. Friend clarified their aims for me as well as adding her own thoughts, and I replied. I don't think she read much of the latter; it was that least inspiring kind of communication, the kind that pokes holes in everything. At length.

XR's aims include

1)The government must be honest about where we are re climate change.
Does this mean the government must agree with XR? Who will judge this honesty?

2) A sort of National Emergency Government made up of all parties and 'People's Assemblies'.
Who decides who is on these 'people's assemblies'? Is anyone voting for them? How much power will they have?

3)Discussing the above peacefully.
OK...

Added to this were her other ideas:

There needs to be concrete policies....farmers will re wild 10% of their land.Agriculture will become self suffiient to reduce imports of food. People will only be allowed 1 flight a year.Transport will become electric within 10 years.Public transport will be nationalised and cheap to reduce reluance on cars.
People will be more thoughtful as to how they travel....not banned.If we all teduce activity across the world, there is a balance to be had so developing countries can develope in a evo friendly way but we reduce our consumption to allow that. This can only happen through political leadership and strict policies.
Also we need to mittigate against the change in the climate and to help comunities build up thei
Independance and resiliance. This could mean a reallocation of land to allow more allotments, community power and watersupply and community cooperatives. I am not quite the stalinist here but redistribution of wealth is needed.

Added to this, she admitted that XR outliers would have us all immobile and vegan.

All this to take how much carbon out of the atmosphere? When the US and China and India are puffing it out like cigarette smoke? We'd do better to boycott or slap major tariffs on goods from those countries, invest in Sony style farms, cut down massively on meat and dairy farming, green our cities, yes rewild, build environmentally sound houses and invest in green technology, give tax breaks to people with no kids, slap extra tax on air travel, slap extra tax on long haul food products. Her suggested somewhat 70s style dark green marxism will never take root unless preceded by cataclysm. I wish I had been as succinct in my responses to said friend, but I was trying not to sound too negative. The result was probably her loss of attention, something for me to learn there.