A Shopping Trip with Extinction Rebellion By Richard Miller (London)
This is a human-interest story, but one still highly relevant to our battle against Leftist ideology. One would have thought that to maintain any credibility, if you really believed that the world was facing climate catastrophe, and that meat and cars need to be banned, that one would be consistent in life practices, and not buy food which was transported vast distances across the Earth, when local produce was available, or drive a gas-guzzling four-wheel drive SUV. But, the message does not seem to have ben received by the co-founder of radical climate change freak-out group, Extinction Rebellion, members who glue themselves to highways and block traffic. Said co-founder was caught at the supermarket buying imported food flown in from around the world and packed in non-recyclable plastic before driving it home in her diesel car. How much carbon was produced here?
Now there is nothing wrong with any of these purchases, including piling up non-recyclable plastic, in my opinion, but the issue is, that all of this is inconsistent with her climate change beliefs. Or is it? It assumes that the climate change movement is sincere about the environment, rather than pursuing communist agendas, and I think the evidence points towards them being reds, not greens. What fruit or vegetable is green on the outside and red inside? Watermelon, of course.
“The co-founder of Extinction Rebellion was branded a 'towering hypocrite' today after she was caught at the supermarket buying imported food flown in from around the world and packed in non-recyclable plastic before driving it home in her diesel car.
As the eco-protest group begins four days of protests across London on Friday, Gail Bradbrook was spotted stocking up on food that had racked up more than 17,000 air miles before being stocked at a Waitrose in Gloucestershire.
Bradbrook was pictured grabbing Vietnamese tea, Chilean grapes and items from Spain, Cyprus and Italy. She also drove to and from Waitrose in Stroud in a diesel 1.5-litre car.
The 50-year-old activist co-founded the environmental group in 2018 with ex-boyfriend Simon Bramwell.
As part of its core three demands, Extinction Rebellion says: 'Every part of society must act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.' Yet her shopping items, which came from three different continents, were bound in plastic, nylon and polythene.
An onlooker said: 'Buying fruit flown halfway round the world in non-recyclable packaging then driving home in a diesel motor — what a towering hypocrite.
'She was doing everything Extinction Rebellion tells us not to do,' the onlooker told The Sun.
'But at least she wasn’t held up on her way home by idiots who glued themselves to the road.'
The activist also walked out with Quorn vegan chicken free slices and Duchy Organic chicken wings - both covered with non-recyclable film.
A fifth of all food-related greenhouse gas emissions come from transporting edible products across the planet. These are even higher for fruit and vegetables that are out of season - and need to be refrigerated as they are brought over.
Extinction Rebellion is plotting a huge protest in London from today until Monday, with as many as 30,000 supporters coming to the capital.
XR's planned four-day protest is supported by more than 200 organisations, including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the PCS union.”
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