Melissa Godin is an activist for climate change who employs journalism as a tool to achieve her goals. New York Times gives her priceless space in its news pages to place an obscure environmentalist radical on a pedestal in Wednesday’s edition: “Farhana Yamin’s Journey From Climate Summits to Street Protests.”
Without a bit of journalistic balance, Godin’s profile praised Yamin’s work in Extinction Rebellion, an environmental group so radical it thinks Greenpeace is complicit in the climate crisis. The Times won’t let you know about the group’s radical and frankly scary End Times preaching and fanaticism, described by Spiked online as “an upper-middle-class death cult….a millenarian movement that might speak of science, but which is driven by sheer irrationalism.”
Admittedly, Godin knows how to craft a lead sentence, albeit in praise of the hard-left end-time environmental fanatics (as shown, Extinction Rebellion’s modus operandiIt is disrupting everyday life. However, such fanaticism can be less entertaining in a period of rising energy costs. Prices would soar even more if ER or their ilk had their way.
It took 20 minutes for police officers to unglue Farhana Yamin from Shell’s offices in London.
It was April 2019, and Ms. Yamin had joined the protestors from Extinction Rebellion, a global environmental organization. They occupied central London streets and demanded that the British authorities take action on climate change.
Canadian truckers would be grateful for similar treatment in protest against their own road congestion.
She is also a leading author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was a key architect of the Paris climate agreement. Her role is well-known as she was responsible for the achievement of a key element of this pact, which included the goal of zero emissions by midcentury.
After the agreement thoughAs Donald J. Trump rose in power in the United StatesShe stated that she began to lose faith in institutions after her country and others continued delaying strong actions on climate change.
Is there nothing Trump can’t do?
This “news” story doesn’t get into how Extinction Rebellion actually acts – climbing on top of subway trains during rush hour, etc.
….Instead of returning to climate diplomacy, Ms. Yamin joined the nascent Extinction Rebellion movement, a decentralized group that uses nonviolent action and civil disobedience, in 2018.
Making the lives of normal people miserable by blocking their way to work seems to be Yamin’s highest goal in life, besides getting hip with the kids.
Initially, Ms. Yamin became the leader of Extinction Rebellion’s political team….Even in her new activist role, though, Ms. Yamin felt she was relying too heavily on her intellectual skills instead of putting her body on the line. When an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was issued in October 2018, Ms. Yamin was reading the report as activists filled Parliament Square in London. As she saw pictures of young people refusing to move and waiting to be arrested, she thought, “I want to be with them.”
Ms. Yamin spent the following two years working with Extinction Rebellion, organizing and protesting alongside other activists….
Godin treated the environmental activist like a heroine.
Ms. Yamin stopped when asked about her feelings looking back on her career. “I’m proud of my achievements,” she said. “But I can’t keep carrying on doing that in the face of known indifference.”
Times Reporters have laughed at the group’s radicalism in the past. Anne Barnard predictably cheered on Extinction Rebellion in an October 2019 story, “Disrupting Business as Usual to Bring More Attention to Climate Change.”