The left sure knows how to win friends and influence people, don’t they?
Members of the radical group ‘Extinction Rebellion’ decided to annoy people by protesting climate change on Black Friday.
They played dead, laying on the floors of shopping malls and more.
FOX News reports:
Climate protesters block stores, disrupt Black Friday shopping
Protesters around the world disrupted Black Friday shopping in order to draw attention to climate change days before the United Nations met to discuss the issue in Madrid.
The retail holiday saw protests in a long list of countries — including France, Germany, the United States — with some activists entering stores and others holding mock funerals. Near Paris, climate demonstrators blocked a shopping mall and gathered in from of Amazon’s headquarters to protest over-production they say is killing the planet.
To many activists, Black Friday is the epitome of this shift, a purely commercial event designed to boost U.S. retailers ahead of the Christmas holidays, the symbol of capitalism run amok.
“We are living in a system of endless consumerism,” the group Extinction Rebellion NYC tweeted on Friday. “Earth cannot sustain that, especially as we accelerate towards climate and ecological catastrophe.”
See the videos below:
Remember the game Snake? Watch as empty shopping carts lines grow this #BlackFriday. What once was a childhood game is now an active meditation on the ravages over-consumption.
1.7x of Earth’s yearly biocapacity was used in 2018. That is not sustainable. #BuyNothingDay pic.twitter.com/xRa3I9Q4So
— Extinction Rebellion NYC 🌎 (@XR_NYC) November 29, 2019
Happening now! #BlackFriday2019
Or #BuyNothingDay?Endless consumerism cannot be sustainable in a world with limited natural resources. We are using 1.7x Earth's biocapacity and growing each year. pic.twitter.com/RsLBZ6C1TM
— Extinction Rebellion NYC 🌎 (@XR_NYC) November 29, 2019
#BlackFriday sales in Big Box stores can’t take into account how the systems that support our way of life often cause devastating damage to the ecology of this beautiful planet.
The EU Parliament just announced a #ClimateEmergency this week.
No more business as usual! pic.twitter.com/6PYRGXPmu5
— Extinction Rebellion NYC 🌎 (@XR_NYC) November 29, 2019
We demand the truth be told about the ecological and #climatecrisis at hand.
We must transform our social, political and economic systems from ones driven by destructive consumption, to systems that honor relationship and reciprocity, and care for all life.
#BuyNothingDay pic.twitter.com/zwRWJfkbwG
— Extinction Rebellion NYC 🌎 (@XR_NYC) November 29, 2019
They must be fun at parties.
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