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XR were virtually created/supported by George Monbiot/Guardian newspaper and the BBC. not a lot of support from the average Brit.

27 Aug: Daily Mail: Extinction Rebellion drops extreme claims from climate change film narrated by Keira Knightley after admitting they couldn’t be backed with evidence
•Climate Crisis and Why We Should Panic was produced by Serena Schellenberg
•Ms Schellenberg has deleted two apocalyptic claims from the closing minutes
•Previously said ‘climate breakdown is already killing 400,000 people every year’
•Claimed human extinction was ‘a real possibility’ amid more extreme weather
By Emer Scully
The London-based producer Serena Schellenberg admitted there was insufficient evidence to support apocalyptic claims ‘human extinction is a real possibility’ and ‘climate breakdown is already killing 400,000 people every year’.

Climate scientists warned against ‘crying wolf’ as they disputed the claims, reported The Times (LINK).

The film Climate Crisis and Why We Should Panic, launched on social media last year, featured the outlandish statements in the closing minutes...
Ms Schellenberg is the daughter of the late Keith Schellenberg, a flamboyant millionaire who angered those living on the Hebridean island Eigg after buying it in the 1970s...

In the edited version the end of humanity claim has been replaced with: ‘Leading scientists warn that we have entered a state of “planetary emergency” and face the prospect of societal collapse.’...
The 400,000 deaths claim became: ‘The frequency of extreme weather events has already increased threefold.’...
The original version has been viewed 54,000 times in the 12 months since its online release...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8668421/Extinction-Rebellion-drops-extreme-claims-climate-change-film-narrated-Keira-Knightley.html