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Re:It Takes More Than Mass Protests to Drive Change by perfunctory on Monday August 12, 2019 @09:27AM (#20675179)
For one, UK parliament has declared a climate emergency [0]. So did NYC [1]. And many others. It doesn't mean much but still.

They've met with UK Sec. of State for Environment [2]. Exactly what the OP advocates.

Majority of Britons now believe that climate change is more pressing than Brexit [3]

And so on.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-48126677

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPtAKjhT02s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMGqP5rP8v8

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/26/climate-...

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Re:It Takes More Than Mass Protests to Drive Change by pjc50 on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:13AM (#20676128)
> Majority of Britons now believe that climate change is more pressing than Brexit

That just means we're not going to do very much about either of those! Although grid decarbonisation has been a great quiet success so far. It's just that nobody seems to want to take credit for it and push on further.

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