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Named Sunrise --- A Controversial Climate Group Rethinks Its Strategy
Time Magazine ^ | MARCH 17, 2022 1:00 PM EDT | BY MOLLY BALL

Posted on 04/15/2022 3:26:18 AM PDT by dennisw

The doctor couldn’t understand why Kidus Girma wouldn’t just eat the sandwich. It was October 2021, and Girma, 26, was starving. He hadn’t eaten anything solid in four days. His vision was blurred, his heart rate was elevated, and his blood-glucose levels were becoming potentially deadly. He could barely sit up, much less stand. As he struggled to explain to the befuddled medical professionals surrounding him that he was on a hunger strike to protest the Biden Administration’s lack of action on climate change, he began to realize his cause was failing.

“I had felt like, maybe if I really push my limits, that’s how we win,” Girma reflected in a recent interview. “I believe that less now.” Ten days later, the hunger strike was over, but the climate crisis was no closer to being solved. The White House hadn’t responded; billions in proposed climate spending remained stuck in limbo in the Senate. And Girma and his fellow activists, having done everything in their power to force change, were left wondering what went wrong.

Girma is a member of the Sunrise Movement, a six-year-old youth climate organization that has shot to prominence in its short existence. Conceived by environmentalists hoping to inject their cause with people power, and launched into the seething desperation of the early Trump era, Sunrise has been celebrated in the liberal press and feted by top Democrats. It boasts millions in funding from donors and foundations, hundreds of “hubs” across the country, and thousands of volunteers. The group pressured Democratic presidential candidates to embrace their sweeping climate agenda, helping popularize the idea of a Green New Deal for climate and jobs. “They’ve brought new energy and new ambition to the climate community and made a big impact in a short period of time,”

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To: dennisw

Sunrise Movement has held some protests in NYC where they block traffic, but Extinction Rebellion is by far the more dangerous group. They glue their hand to roadways, block major highways, and lately chained themselves to the White House fence. They have smaller affiliated groups (Scientist Rebellion, Declare Emergency) that are made up of hardcore members willing to go even further in their tactics.


21 posted on 04/15/2022 4:34:52 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt )
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To: muir_redwoods

That’s an eco-friendly tactic that they should use more often. Their environmental footprint will be smaller because they will be emitting less CO2. Maybe I’ll develop an app for this, sell it for about $2. They can use their phones to keep track of their personal daily mg of CO2 they don’t emit. Add it up and post it annually on Fakebook. Then the app will set targets for reducing their CO2 emissions. Eventually we’ll sell them personal carbon credits in case they need to use more CO2 someday, someone else can breathe less.


22 posted on 04/15/2022 4:38:33 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: dennisw

Know your enemies. Get educated about them. These young and brainwashed are out to wreck our economy. As if the Covid.xyz plandemic isn’t enough. A few million Americans lose their jobs? They couldn’t care less, even if they are family members.

They are economic saboteurs. Tools of the global warming elites, such as Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, The World Economic Forum.
“You Will Own Nothing and You Will Be Happy” – The Great Reset


23 posted on 04/15/2022 4:44:43 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw
...the seething desperation of the early Trump era...

How I long for those days to return!

24 posted on 04/15/2022 5:55:53 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: fruser1

Just wait. Real starvation is coming from world chaos, not temperature.


25 posted on 04/15/2022 12:43:53 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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