One of the advantages of the climate protest movements is that they have a wealth of scientific work to point to for credibility.
Scientific work doesn’t give particular support for the idea that climate change will create a substantial extinction risk though, and that doesn’t stop the activists there. I’m not saying you’re wrong or the OP’s approach is justified, but public perceptions of activist groups’ reasonableness seems only loosely linked to expert views (I’ve not seen much evidence of the “then they can go on to check what experts think” bit happening much).
Extinction Rebellion is named after the Anthropocene Extinction, I don’t think they are claiming that climate change alone would lead to human extinction.
They seem to say so in their intro video on this page: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/the-truth/the-emergency/. OK they say due to climate and ecological destruction, but it doesn’t really matter for this. The point is just that disagreeing with experts doesn’t generally seem to prevent an organisation from becoming “successful”. (Plenty of examples outside climate too.)
Scientific work doesn’t give particular support for the idea that climate change will create a substantial extinction risk though, and that doesn’t stop the activists there. I’m not saying you’re wrong or the OP’s approach is justified, but public perceptions of activist groups’ reasonableness seems only loosely linked to expert views (I’ve not seen much evidence of the “then they can go on to check what experts think” bit happening much).
But the climate protesters generally aren’t basing their pitch on existential risk, as in a global extinction event.
It seems to be a big part in the UK cf Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil.
Extinction Rebellion is named after the Anthropocene Extinction, I don’t think they are claiming that climate change alone would lead to human extinction.
They seem to say so in their intro video on this page: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/the-truth/the-emergency/. OK they say due to climate and ecological destruction, but it doesn’t really matter for this. The point is just that disagreeing with experts doesn’t generally seem to prevent an organisation from becoming “successful”. (Plenty of examples outside climate too.)
“Okay, all the examples I used were strawmen, but it doesn’t really matter”
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