We've flagged up Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband's relationship with climate activists before. When he's not snuggling up to Franny 'Age of Stupid' Armstrong, he's egging on airport protesters and comparing them to past popular movements: When you...
Forecast for Satire Worse Than Previously Thought
We find ourselves temporarily elsewhere and otherwise engaged. We'll be back shortly. It has not escaped our notice that there has been a couple of interesting elections recently, and that a new report for the UK government proves beyond doubt that it's very hard to...
The Illusion and Politics of Necessity
Our last post got us thinking a bit more about the WHO's attribution of 150,000 deaths a year to climate change, now superseded by the GHF's 300,000. As we said, headlines - thousands and thousands of them - were generated by the 'cause' that was least significant in...
The Age of the Age of Stupid
It is telling that parts of the environmental movement attempt to ram home their message by telling the rest of the world that they are stupid for not getting it. As we have shown here on Climate Resistance, some argue that psychological mechanisms might be to blame...
The Pastiche Politics of the Runway Rush
Following the Plane Stupid protest group's day in court recently, another climate group, Climate Rush is planning disruptive action at Heathrow and Manchester airports next Monday, according to activist media portal, Indymedia. Hundreds of anti-aviation protesters are...
The Stupid Stansted Stupid Defence
The Stansted protesters have had their day in court. Most of the 22 campaigners, who are members of the group Plane Stupid, were ordered to do between 50 and 90 hours community service after admitting aggravated trespass. The incident closed the airport in Essex for...