Originally Posted by
aqua
The rally was I think organised by Scottish Youth Climate Strike (SYCS). They are apparently a sensible bunch with a radical but not crazy set of demands. There were also young people who are organising a Vigil for Climate Justice, whose leaflet reveals they’re a coalition of five or six groups in and around Edinburgh. They want Climate Justice Now, whatever that means. They have many slogans with no evident content. Then there were the crazies, the Green Anti-Capitalist Front. They want “System change, not climate change!”, which requires “overthrowing this corrupt and outdated system”. There were a few people standing under a Scottish Green Party banner, and as at every rally that’s ever been organised in this country, there were placards with platitudes from the Socialist Workers.
Speaker after speaker insisted that we should change the education system and get behind the science, albeit without displaying any evidence that they knew what the science says, never mind understanding it. They were enthusiastic. And angry, and they shouted a lot. A lot of what they said was ok but there was no detailed plan. My overall conclusion was that tomorrow’s Scottish politicians will be pretty much the same as today’s Scottish politicians. Boy, do they need Greta!
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